Family | GESNERIACEAE |
Genus species | Streptocarpus micranthus C.B.Clarke |
Habitat | shady rocks |
Altitude | 1100-1800m |
Description | leaves ovate-oblong, thin, crenate, sparsely hirsute, scapes thin, ramose, cymes to 30-flowered, calyx glandular, corolla broadly infundibuliform, to 5mm |
Size | 5-25cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | shady, humous, rock crevices alpine house, humous, gravelly soil, shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1 month, 21-24°C division in spring and in late summer; leaf cuttings in summ |
Territory |
Africa
Southern Africa (Swaziland , Northern Provinces) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | GESNERIACEAE
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