Common names: purple wild tibouchina, royal dissotis, purple rosettea, wild tibouchina, (Eng.); kalwerbossie (Afr.); sichobochobo, umpongamponga (SiSwati)
Family: Melastomataceae
... replaces Dissotis princeps published in January 2006. Rosettea princeps is a soft, herbaceous shrub, 1.0 to 3 m ... persistent calyx, releasing masses of very small seeds. Rosettea princeps has unusual stamens: firstly, when in bud, ... lax in var. candolleana and condensed in var. princeps . Rosettea princeps occurs in marshy places, along streambanks ...
| Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG
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