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| Synonyms: |
Anthericum puberulum Weim. |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | Local |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herbs up to 2hm high, growing from a short horizontal, regularly constricted rhizome, forming dense tufts and often considerable mats. Roots wiry with small tubers at the tips. Leaves basal, usually 6-8 per plant, linear-lanceolate, 5-42 cm long and 9-18 mm wide, hairless or minutely puberulous on the veins. Peduncle flattened, narrowly winged, often with a single sterile bract below the inflorescence. Inflorescence subglobose, dense. Pedicels 1-3 per node, up to 5 mm long in fruit. Flowers white with dark-tipped outer tepals. Capsule shallowly deltoid, up to 6 mm long, transversely ridged. |
| Notes: | See subsp rhodesianum for comparison. |
| Derivation of specific name: | pygmaeum: pygmy |
| Habitat: | In montane grassland on stony soils. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Restricted to the Nyanga and Vumba Mts in Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
| Growth form(s): | |
| Endemic status: | Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Lower Risk - near threatened |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 13. Kativu, S. (1994). Synopsis of Chlorophytum (Anthericaceae) in the Flora Zambesiaca area Kirkia 15(1) Page 74. Kativu, S., Hoell, G., Bjorå, C. S. & Nordal, I. (2008). Anthericaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(1) Pages 41 - 42. 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 85. |
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