Xyris schliebenii
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Northwestern slopes below Mt Dombe, Chimanimani Mts.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Northwestern slopes below Mt Dombe, Chimanimani Mts.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Northwestern slopes below Mt Dombe, Chimanimani Mts.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Northwestern slopes below Mt Dombe, Chimanimani Mts.
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
This species is generally very similar to Xyris rubella but can be distinguished by the smooth, not finely wrinkled sheaths and laminas; the incurved, obtuse or mucronate (not straight and aristate) leaf laminas, and in the more strongly keeled, emarginate and apiculate fertile bracts. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | schliebenii: Hans-Joachim Eberhardt Schlieben (1902-1975), German botanist, photographer, and writer who collected in Tanzania and South Africa. |
| Habitat: | Seasonally wet grassland and on or around rocky outcrops. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 300 - 2200 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe but may be more widespread in tropical Africa. Often growing together and mixed in collections with X. rubella. |
| FZ divisions: | N,MS |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Friday 5 December 2014 |
| Literature: |
Lock, J.M. (2010). Xyridaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(4) Pages 30 - 31. 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 112. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 243. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 87. |
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