Triceratella drummondii Brenan

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Frequency:	Rare
Status:	Native
Description:	Small annual herb, 3-13 cm with all parts more or less covered in glandular hairs. Leaves linear, up to 3-12 cm long and 1-2.5 mm wide, glandular hairy. Flowers with long, linear-lanceolate sepals, up to 19 mm, pointed, glandular hairy. Petals shorter than sepals, yellow, oblanceolate-oblong. Fruit a grey-brown oblong capsule, dehiscent.
Notes:	First recorded from the Chiturapudzi area in Chipise Communal Land near Beitbridge, which is the type locality and the only known locality in Zimbabwe. Unfortunately this wetland area of Cretaceous sandstone seepage has been badly degraded and the species appears to be no longer present. In 1997, the species was found near Moabase on the Mozambique coast, more than 1000 km away from the first record.
Derivation of specific name:	drummondii: named after R. B. 'Bob' Drummond (1924-2008 ), former Keeper of the National Herbarium in Harare (SRGH), who collected the type specimen.
Habitat:	In open wet sand behind coastal dunes
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Flowering time:	May?
Worldwide distribution:	Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Mozambique distribution:	Z
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Endemic status:	Near Endemic
Red data list status:	Critically Endangered
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Content last updated:	Wednesday 20 January 2010
Literature:	Barker, N.P., Faden, R.B., Brink, E. & Dold, A.P. (2001). Rediscovery of Triceratella drummondii and comments on its relationships and position within the family Bothalia 31(1) Pages 37 - 39. Brenan, J.P.M. (1961). Triceratella: a new genus of Commelinaceae from Southern Rhodesia Kirkia 1 Page 14. Protologue (Includes a picture). Darbyshire, I., Timberlake, J., Osborne, J., Rokni, S., Matimele, H., Langa. C., Datizua, C., de Sousa, C., Alves, T., Massingue, A., Hadj-Hammou, J., Dhanda, S., Shah, T., Wursten, B. (2019). The endemic plants of Mozambique: diversity and conservation status Phytotaxa 136 Page 77. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 163. Mapaura, A. (2002). Endemic Plant Species of Zimbabwe. Kirkia 18(1) Page 127. 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.

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