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Synonyms: |
Ascolepis bellidiflora (Welw.) Cherm. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Tufted perennial herb, up to 50 cm high, growing from a slender rhizome, sometimes bulbous at the base. Leaves up to 20 cm long, less than half the length of the culm, pale green. Involucral bracts up to 10 but mostly 5-6, filiform, up to 15 cm long, pale green, often with red glandular dots. Inflorescence subglobose or hemispherical, 10-40 mm in diameter; glumes 4-10 mm long, white or pale yellow. Nutlets obovoid, c. 1 mm long, dark reddish-brown, papillose to densely tuberculate. |
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Habitat: | In marshy grassland and along streamsides. |
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Worldwide distribution: | From Nigeria to Sudan and Ethiopia and South to Angola, Malawi, Mozambique Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N,C |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Sunday 28 October 2018 |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 297. Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 122. Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 269 - 271. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 87. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 109. |
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