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False Maidenhair

Thalictrum rhynchocarpum Q. Dillon. & A. Rich.

Derivation of specific name

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rhynchocarpum: with beaked fruit
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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). Thalictrum rhynchocarpum Quart.-Dill. & A. Rich. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=123620
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Description

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Somewhat scrambling perennial herb, up to 4 m tall. Leaves up to 40 cm long 3-4 times divided into elliptic to ovate, 3-lobed leaflets, closely resembling the fronds of ferns in the genus Adiantum (Maidenhair ferns). Flowers in lax many-flowered branched heads, small, green to purplish, petals absent. Fruit asymmetrically spindle-shaped with a long beaked apex, pendent on long hair-like pedicels.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Thalictrum rhynchocarpum Quart.-Dill. & A. Rich. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=123620
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Flora of Zimbabwe

Worldwide distribution

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Tropical Africa and South Africa.
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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). Thalictrum rhynchocarpum Quart.-Dill. & A. Rich. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=123620
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe