Derivation of specific name
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insipidum: without taste
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Pentarrhinum insipidum E. Mey. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=145960
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Description
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Perennial twining herb with milky sap. Stems 2-3 m long, covered in soft hairs; leaf-like stipules at the nodes. Leaves ovate, sparsely hairy, 3-5-veined from the broadly cordate base. Flowers in axillary pseudo-umbels. Corolla lobes green, often more or less densely tinged maroon, spreading or reflexed. Outer corona lobes creamy-white to orange-yellow with a horn-like apical appendage curving inwards; inner lobes greenish, striped maroon. Fruit usually a single follicle, 5-8.5 cm long, softly spiny.
- 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). Pentarrhinum insipidum E. Mey. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=145960
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Widespread in tropical Africa and South Africa
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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). Pentarrhinum insipidum E. Mey. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=145960
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings