Derivation of specific name
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
formosissimus: the most beautiful
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Anisotes formosissimus (Klotzsch) Milne-Redh. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=154650
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Small erect or scrambling shrub, 1-3 m tall. Young branches, 4-angled, grooved, green. Leaves opposite, 3-10 cm long, ovate to elliptic, light green above, bluish below and shortly hairy below when young; petiole 0.5-3 cm long; margin entire. Flowers in spike-like inflorescences on very short spur-branchlets. Corolla, greenish-pink to reddish, rarely yellow, 4.5-5.5 cm long, glandular hairy, tubular, 2-lipped; tube shorter than the lobes.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Anisotes formosissimus (Klotzsch) Milne-Redh. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=154650
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, northern South Africa
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Anisotes formosissimus (Klotzsch) Milne-Redh. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=154650
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
