Derivation of specific name
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cobaltica: cobalt-blue.
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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). Lobelia cobaltica S. Moore Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=157780
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- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Description
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Decumbent annual or sometimes short-lived perennial herb. Stems several, up to 60 cm high, ribbed, densely hairy. Leaves very broadly ovate or deltoid, up to 2 × 2,5 cm, hairy on both surfaces; venation distinct beneath; margin coarsely toothed or scalloped; petiole up to 1 cm long, rarely longer, narrowly winged.. Flowers in lax 2-5-flowered racemes on long peduncles. Calys with very slender lobes up to 7 mm long, hairy. Corolla 17-23 mm long, deep blue with 2 whitish crests in the mouth of the tube.
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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). Lobelia cobaltica S. Moore Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=157780
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Frequency
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Local
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Lobelia cobaltica S. Moore Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=157780
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Restricted to the Chimanimani Mts of Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
- 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). Lobelia cobaltica S. Moore Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=157780
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings