Syngonanthus welwitschii
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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: |
Paepalanthus welwitschii Rendle |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
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. |
| Type location: |
Angola |
| Notes: | 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: | welwitschii: named after the Austrian botanist, Friedrich Martin Welwitsch (1806-1872) |
| Habitat: | Wet ground in grassy places, on sandy and stony soil. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1685 m (approx) |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, southern DRC, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique. Also in Sierra Leone. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Saturday 22 November 2014 |
| Literature: |
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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