Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Perennial herb, up to c. 40 cm, growing from a stout reddish fleshy rootstock. Leaves up to c. 15 × 10 cm, distinctly blue-grey, irregularly deeply pinnately lobed, almost hairless above, hairy below; margin, irregularly tooted. Inflorescences terminal, up to 15 cm long, laxly and shortly branched. Flowers unisexual on the same inflorescence, deep red. Fruit subcylindric, up to 12 × 10 mm, with rib-like lobes, hairless (in this subspecies).
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- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Jatropha schlechteri Pax
subsp. setifera (Hutch.) Radcl.-Sm. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=135450
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Southern Zimbabwe and Limpopo 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). Jatropha schlechteri Pax
subsp. setifera (Hutch.) Radcl.-Sm. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=135450
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings