Description ²

Erect, branched perennial herb, up to c. 80 cm tall. Leaves opposite, lower leaves more or less broadly ovate, often more narrowly lanceolate-elliptic higher on the stems, mostly hairless above, thinly hairy below. Flowers in terminal spikes, yellow, held in overlapping green bracts covered in long spreading hairs.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbart/6857259124/
2. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30288583

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

Range Map

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