Sisyranthus imberbis Harv.

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Mevumodzi Valley near Eastern Lakes, Eastern Chimanimani Mts

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Frequency:	Local
Status:	Native
Description:	Slender perennial herb, up to 45 cm high with milky sap; leaves filiform; flowers axillary in pendent umbels, greenish to creamy-yellowish, campanulate. Each corolla lobe with a tuft of hairs in the throat.
Type location:	Eastern Cape, South Africa
Notes:	The specimens in the images (Wursten BW1059, K, SRGH, LMA, BR) represent the first record from Mozambique.
Derivation of specific name:	imberbis: without hairs. This is a somewhat confusing name since the are in fact small tufts of hairs in the corolla throat.
Habitat:	Moist grassland.
Altitude range: (metres)	900 - 1500 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Restricted to the Chimanimani Mts of Mozambique and Zimbabwe but also found in Swaziland, Lesotho and the montane regions of eastern South Africa.
FZ divisions:	MS
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Images last updated:	Thursday 13 August 2015
Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 51. as Sysiranthus rhodesicus Goodier, R. & Phipps, J.B. (1961). A revised checklist of the vascular plants of the Chimanimani Mountains Kirkia 1 Page 62. as Sysiranthus rhodesicus Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 90 - 91. (Includes a picture). Timberlake, J., Darbyshire, I., Wursten, B., Hadj-Hammou, J., Ballings, P., Mapaura, A., Matimele, H., Banze, A., Chipanga, H., Muassinar, D., Massunde, J., Chelene, I., Osborne, J., Shah, T. (2016). Chimanimani Mountains: Botany and Conservation. Report produced under CEPF Grant 63512. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. Page 47. as Sysiranthus rhodesicus Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 88. as Sysiranthus rhodesicus

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