| Epilobium capense Buchinger ex Hochst. |
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| Family : ONAGRACEAE |
Protologue : Flora 27(2): 425 (1844) |
| Information on the genus : Epilobium |
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Status
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| Status for MA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Epilobium flavescens E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond. (1862) |
| =Epilobium karsteniae Compton (1967) |
| =Epilobium biforme Hausskn. (1884) |
| =Epilobium jonanthum Hausskn. (1884) |
| =Epilobium bojeri Hausskn. (1879) |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Perennial herb, 0,1-1,2 m tall; underground stems vertical or nearly so, densely invested with thick white, fleshy, rounded scales ± 4 mm long ??2-10 mm wide after the first year of growth; the new shoots scaly and arising from this region; |
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| Ecology : |
margins of the petioles, subsimple or sometimes branched. Moist places, meadows, grassland; 1350-2100 m alt. S. Africa, Lesotho; Madagascar. |
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| Biol./Eco : |
perennial-Herb- Ht 0.21 - 1.21 m. Alt: 900 - 2762 m. Distribution: LES, EC, FS, GA, KN, LP, MP, NW, WC, SWZ |
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| Biol./Eco : |
Herb; distribution: Africa. |
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Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Checklist Flow. Pl. Sub-Saharan Africa : 516 (2006).
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under Catalogue de Madagascar |
| see under Tropicos |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
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| Record n°17407 |
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