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Triumfetta dekindtiana Engl.

Description

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Small shrub up to c. 1.3 m tall, growing from a long taproot. Branches greyish-brown hairy, becoming more or less hairless and reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, ovate to ovate-oblong, up to 6.5 cm long, more or less densely greyish to greyish-brown hairy on both surfaces; margin irregularly serrate; petiole 5-15 mm long. Flowers in axillary 1-few-flowered shortly pecunculate clusters. Sepals linear, 6-9 mm long, reflexed, hairy; petals yellow, oblong-lanceolate, 4-5 mm long; stamens 9-10, c.6 mm long. Fruit up to 6 mm in diameter covered in numerous slender spiny bristles; bristles covered in stellate hairs and a short tuft of 6-8 terminal setae.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Triumfetta dekindtiana Engl. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138690
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Frequency

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Frequent
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Triumfetta dekindtiana Engl. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138690
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
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Flora of Zimbabwe

Worldwide distribution

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Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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cc-by-nc
copyright
Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Triumfetta dekindtiana Engl. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138690
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe