Common names: purple dissotis, royal dissotis, wild tibouchina, purple wild tibouchina (Eng.); kalwerbossie (Afr.); sichobochobo, umpongamponga (Swazi)
Family: Melastomataceae
... Botanical Garden January 2006, updated January 2017 Dissotis princeps is a soft, herbaceous shrub, 1.5 to 3 m ... persistent calyx, releasing masses of very small seeds. Dissotis princeps has unusual stamens: firstly, when in bud, ... is ± 30 mm long, purplish pink with a yellow stigma. Dissotis princeps occurs in marshy places, along streambanks ...
20 / 02 / 2006 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG
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