Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Low-growing, shrubby perennial herb, up to 90 cm tall but usually much smaller. Leaves opposite, small, ovate-elliptic, slightly fleshy with sparse glandular hairs. Flowers in the axils of the upper leaves. Corolla 5-lobed, only slightly 2-lipped, white to pale mauve-blue.
- 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). Chaetacanthus setiger (Pers.) Lindl. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=153350
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Insects whose larvae eat this plant species
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Zizula hylax (Gaika blue) Junonia hierta cebrene (Yellow pansy)
- 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). Chaetacanthus setiger (Pers.) Lindl. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=153350
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
