Family | APOCYNACEAE |
Genus species | Raphionacme galpinii Schltr. |
Bibliography | Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 45: 2 (1894) |
Native Range | s. Mozambique to Southern Africa |
Primary Biome | Seasonally Dry Tropical |
Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
Altitude | 10-2100m |
Description | tuber to 18cm, leaves 3-7pairs, shortly petiolate, linear-lanceolate, conspicuosly softly pubescent, cymes very dense, subspherical, many flowered, corolla pubescent |
Size | 8-35cm |
Color | pale green |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuberous perennial |
Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, dry, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C division of resting tubers |
Synonyms | Raphionacme elata N.E.Br. Raphionacme macrorrhiza Schltr. |
Territory | 2 Africa 26 South Tropical Africa (MOZ Mozambique) 27 Southern Africa (NAT KwaZulu-Natal, OFS Free State, SWZ Swaziland, TVL Northern Provinces) |