Acalypha dikuluwensis P.A.Duvign. & Dewit

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Euphorbiaceae > Acalypha

Characteristics

Very like A. clutioides, but distinguished from it in the following features; stems not more than 25 cm high, more densely pilose but less densely leafy than in A. clutioides; lower leaves more broadly ovate to almost suborbicular; leaves sometimes irregularly, shallowly and remotely denticulate on the margins, and pilose beneath; female flowers sometimes geminate in the leaf axils; female bracts palmatifid; styles connate at the base and the ovary globose.
Life form annual
Growth form shrub
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.25
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Distribution

Acalypha dikuluwensis world distribution map, present in Zambia

Conservation status

Acalypha dikuluwensis threat status: Extinct

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:337336-1
WFO ID wfo-0000924605
COL ID 8RVS
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Synonyms

Acalypha cupricola Acalypha dikuluwensis