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| name = ''LATINNAME'' <!--- replace LATINNAME with the actual latin name -->
| name = ''Saintpaulia ionantha''
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| common_names = African Violet
| growth_habit = ? <!--- tree, shrub, herbaceous, vine, etc -->
| growth_habit = herbaceous
| high = ? <!--- 1m (3 ft) -->
| high = ? <!--- 1m (3 ft) -->
| wide = <!--- 65cm (25 inches) -->
| wide = <!--- 65cm (25 inches) -->
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Saintpaulia ionantha. African Violet. Usambara Violet. Stemless, hairy: lvs. many, 1 1/2 in. long, ovate or subcordate, thin, regularly crenate, clad on both surfaces with many short and a few very long white hairs: peduncles 1 - 4 in. long, 1-6-fld.: calyx-lobes linear; corolla-lobes not very equal: caps. narrow-oblong. Trop. Afr. Var. grandiflora, Hort., has much larger fls. than the type, the fls. intense violet. Var. variegata, Hort., has the lvs. variegated with light yellow turning to white.
Saintpaulia ionantha, Wendl. African Violet. Usambara Violet. Fig. 3520. Stemless, hairy: lvs. many, 1 1/2 in. long, ovate or subcordate, thin, regularly crenate, clad on both surfaces with many short and a few very long white hairs: peduncles 1 - 4 in. long, 1-6-fld.: calyx-lobes linear; corolla-lobes not very equal: caps. narrow-oblong. Trop. Afr. Gt. 42:1391 and p. 323. Gn. 47:133; 74, p. 103; 79, p. 13. G.M. 37:62; 55:97. G.C. III. 13:685. Gn.W. 25:345. G.W. 10, p. 343. R.H. 1893, p. 321. Var. grandiflora, Hort., has much larger fls. than the type, the fls. intense violet. Var. variegata, Hort., has the lvs. variegated with light yellow turning to white.
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