Syngonanthus welwitschii (Rendle) Ruhland
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Small valley North-east of Mt Binga, Chimanimani Mts
Photo: Bart Wursten
Small valley North-east of Mt Binga, Chimanimani Mts
Photo: Bart Wursten
Small valley North-east of Mt Binga, Chimanimani Mts
Photo: Bart Wursten
Small valley North-east of Mt Binga, Chimanimani Mts
Photo: Bart Wursten
Small valley North-east of Mt Binga, Chimanimani Mts
Photo: Bart Wursten
Small valley North-east of Mt Binga, Chimanimani Mts
Photo: Bart Wursten
Small valley North-east of Mt Binga, Chimanimani Mts
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Synonyms:
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Paepalanthus welwitschii Rendle
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Tiny annual herb, mostly less than 5 cm high. Leaves numerous in a basal rosette, narrowly linear, up to 1 m long and less than 1 mm wide. Scapes up to 50,1-4 cm high, 3-ribbed with long spreading glandular hairs mixed with shorter hairs. Capitulum 1.5-2.5 mm wide, few-flowered; involucral bracts few,1.2-1.5 mm long, subequal, shiny white, extending beyond the flowers. Flowers 5-9, straw-coloured, 0.5-0.7 mm long with 4-7 sessile female flowers surrounding 1-2 shortly pedicelled male flowers. |
Notes:
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Before now this species has within the Flora Zambesiaca area only been recorded from Northwestern Zambia so the specimens in the images above (Ballings & Wursten 2304) are the first record for Mozambique. |
Derivation of specific name:
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welwitschii: named after the Austrian botanist, Friedrich Martin Welwitsch (1806-1872) |
Habitat:
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Wet ground in grassy places, on sandy and stony soil. |
Altitude range: |
1685 m (approx) |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Angola, southern DRC, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique. Also in Sierra Leone. |
Mozambique distribution:
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Spot characters:
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Content last updated: |
Saturday 22 November 2014 |
Literature:
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Phillips, S.M. (1998). Eriocaulaceae of the Flora Zambesiaca area Kirkia 17(1) Page 64.
Phillips, S.M. (2010). Eriocaulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(4) Pages 83 - 84.
Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 114.
Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 82.
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-21
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2021).
Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Syngonanthus welwitschii. https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=211220, retrieved 13 April 2021
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