Gladiolus muenzneri Vaupel

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Gladiolus muenzneri

Picture: Michello Rowe
Along M9 between Thazima Gate and Zambia border, Nyika National Park.

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Status: Native
Description:
Plants 30–60 cm high, growing from corms 20–35 mm in diameter; tunics brownish, more or less leathery or fibrous. Foliage leaves 2–3, entirely sheathing or with short occasionally narrowly lanceolate blades 1–12 cm long; margins and midribs hyaline and usually slightly thickened. Stem erect, unbranched. Spike 2–8-flowered; bracts 18–25 mm long, the inner somewhat shorter than the outer and apically bifid. Flowers white to cream, pale yellowish, mauve, pink or pale orange, lacking contrasting markings on the lower tepals; perianth tube 7–8 mm long; tepals nearly equal, 20–25 mm long, directed forwards and weakly curving outward. Filaments 4–5 mm long, usually included in the perianth tube. Capsules globose, 10–12 mm long.
Type location:
Tanzania
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: muenzneri: named after Max Münzner, German botanist who participated in the Fromm Expedition to western Tanzania in 1908.
Habitat: In deciduous woodland and submontane grassland.
Altitude range: 1200 - 1 m
Flowering time:Dec-Feb
Worldwide distribution: Southwestern Tanzania, northern Malawi and northern Zambia.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): N
Zambian distribution (Provinces): Lp
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Content last updated: Sunday 23 February 2020
Literature:

Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 310. (Includes a picture).

Goldblatt, P. (1993). Iridaceae Flora Zambesiaca 12(4) Page 83. (Includes a picture).

Goldblatt, P. (1996). Gladiolus in Tropical Africa Timber Press. Portland, Oregon. Pages 133 - 135. (Includes a picture).

Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 116.

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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Gladiolus muenzneri.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=211920, retrieved 28 March 2024

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