Distribution in Egypt
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- BA Cultnat
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- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Global Distribution
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Tropical East and Central africa.
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- BA Cultnat
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- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Habitat
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- BA Cultnat
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- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Life Expectancy
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- BA Cultnat
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- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Size
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- BA Cultnat
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- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Derivation of specific name
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sinuatum: sinuate, wavy-edged
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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). Oxygonum sinuatum (Hochst. & Steud. ex Meisn.) Dammer Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=121920
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Description
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More or less erect branched annual herb, with ribbed stems up to 1 m tall, usually smaller. Leaves ovate-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate in outline, up to 8 × 3 cm, usually with 3 unequally deep lobes on each side. Flowers in 2-5-flowered clusters in the axils of bracts, together appearing as spike-like terminal or axillary inflorescences, 25-40 cm long. Corolla 4-5-lobed, 6-8 mm in diameter, white or pinkish. Fruit an erect or spreading, trigonous nut, 5-7 mm long, with 3 prickles in the middle of the angles, pubescent.
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- cc-by-nc
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Oxygonum sinuatum (Hochst. & Steud. ex Meisn.) Dammer Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=121920
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- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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From Sudan and Ethiopia to Namibia and South Africa. Also in DRC and Angola.
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- cc-by-nc
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Oxygonum sinuatum (Hochst. & Steud. ex Meisn.) Dammer Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=121920
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
