Family | APOCYNACEAE |
Genus species | Raphionacme procumbens Schltr. |
Bibliography | Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 51: 11 (1895) |
Native Range | Zimbabwe to KwaZulu-Natal |
Primary Biome | Seasonally Dry Tropical |
Habitat | dry, stony grassland |
Altitude | 300-1700m |
Description | stems softly lanate-pubescent, leaves coriaceous, petiolate, narrowly oblong, acute, long adpressed hirsute, cymes subspherical, densely many flowered, pendent |
Size | 5-20cm |
Color | pale green |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuberous perennial |
Cultivation | sunny site with a deep, drained soil alpine house, rich, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C division of resting tubers |
Territory | 2 Africa 26 South Tropical Africa (MOZ Mozambique, ZIM Zimbabwe) 27 Southern Africa (NAT KwaZulu-Natal, SWZ Swaziland, TVL Northern Provinces) |