African Plant Database


Nesaea heptamera Hiern
Family : LYTHRACEAE
Information on the genus : Nesaea
 
 
Status
Status for SA : rejected (present)
Status for TA : rejected (present), is synonym of : Ammannia heptamera (Hiern) S. A. Graham & Gandhi (¨)
 
Synonym(s) Homotypic
 Nesaea heptamera Hiern var. heptamera
 Ammannia heptamera (Hiern) S. A. Graham & Gandhi (2013)
 Ammannia heptamera (Hiern) S. A. Graham & Gandhi var. heptamera
 
Taxon infra-specific
Nesaea heptamera Hiern var. heptamera
 
Ecology and distribution
Trop. Afr.
Biology : Erect subshrubby herb, 7-40 cm tall, with several (annual?) shoots from a thick woody rootstock, often with 1-15 narrow tubers to 25 cm long; stems narrowly winged, branched mostly near the base.
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Ecology : Open seasonally flooded grassy plains, Combretum-wooded grassland, river flats, rice fields; sometimes hard black soil; margins of dambos and vleis, seasonally burnt wet grasslands, edge of termite-mounds; swamp sides; often saline areas; 400- 1480 m alt.
 
More info on :
see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative
see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale
see under Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden
see under Flora of Zimbabwe
 
Map
carte afrique num 176455
 
Record n°176455
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