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What

Botswana Sandkambroo (Pterodiscus ngamicus)

Observer

tuli

Date

December 19, 2013

Description

Pterodiscus ngamicus


multi-stemmed herbaceous perennial from elongated swollen root, about 25cm high. Flowers cream and maroon trumpets 450mm long, 5 stamens - 4 developed, the anthers yellow with an orange waist when aging, like little bows, and 5th stamen reduced (3mm); fruits 4-winged pale green drying to brown 30mm long. Leaves glandular, margins with a few large teeth,3 veins from near the leaf base, petiolate; leaf axils with obvious, large, round, black glands.

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