Derivation of specific name
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speciosa: showy, good-looking
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Karomia speciosa (Hutch. & Corbishley) R. Fern. Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/cult/species.php?species_id=169660
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Description
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Deciduous shrub or small tree to 6 m. Branches usually unarmed but may bear spiny branchlets. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate to subtriangular, up to 5 × 4 cm (smaller than tettensis), softly hairy on both surfaces with minute sessile glands beneath; coarsely serrate-dentate to lobed. Flowers in 1-3-flowered axillary cymes. Calyx mauve or pale green suffused with purple, 11-20 mm in diameter; limb shallowly 5-lobed. Corolla blue, violet, purple to mauve, lilac or white; labellum of the lower lip 2-lobed, not laciniate. Anthers up to 4 cm long, densely covered in gland-tipped hairs near the base. Fruit c. 7 mm long, obconical, flat on the top with 4 horn-like appendages arranged in the shape of a cross the appendages without crests.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Karomia speciosa (Hutch. & Corbishley) R. Fern. Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/cult/species.php?species_id=169660
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Mozambique (Maputo province), Swaziland and South Africa; cultivated in gardens elsewhere
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Karomia speciosa (Hutch. & Corbishley) R. Fern. Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/cult/species.php?species_id=169660
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Perssambreelblom: Brief Summary
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Afrikaans
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Die Perssambreelblom (Karomia speciosa) is 'n boom wat voorkom in eSwatini en langs die Lebomboberge. Die blom het 'n groot, pieringvormige kelk.
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Karomia speciosa: Brief Summary
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Vietnamese
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Karomia speciosa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa môi. Loài này được (Hutch. & Corbishley) R.Fern. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1985 publ. 1988.
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