Protea micans Welw.
subsp. micans

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Habit
Miombo woodland
Cantebury Estates, Mkushi Distr.
Feb 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman

Leaves and stem
Miombo woodland
Cantebury Estates, Mkushi Distr.
Feb 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flower
Miombo woodland
Cantebury Estates, Mkushi Distr.
Feb 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flowers
Miombo woodland
Cantebury Estates, Mkushi Distr.
Feb 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Synonyms:	Leucodendron micans Hiern. Protea albida De Wild.
Common names:
Frequency:	Occasional
Status:	Native
Description:	Suffrutex with several erect, simple or rarely sparsely branched stems 30 - 100(130) cm high. Stems thinly to densely covered with short appressed hairs interspersed with long spreading hairs (up to 2 mm). Leaves up to 13.5 x 3.2 cm, 2.5 - 10 times as long as broad, narrowly elliptic or oblong-lanceolate to linear-oblanceolate to linear, cuneate to rounded at the base, subacute to rounded at the apex, densely appressed-pubescent when young and more sparsely so at maturity but rarely becoming completely glabrous. Flowers (2.5)3 - 5.5 cm long, white to pink, red or orange-red. Heads (4)5 - 10 cm diameter. Middle bracts 1.5 - 3.3 x 1 - 2 cm; inner bracts 4.5 - 6.5 x 0.4 - 0.8 cm. Perianth villous outside except for the lower part of the base, glabrous inside or with short hairs near margin at junction of claw and base, perhaps rarely hairy inside claw; limb 8 - 20(22) mm long. This subspecies differs from the others in the perianth being white and with the perianth limb being 14 - 20(22) mm long.
Type location:	Angola
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	micans: gleaming
Habitat:	Plateau woodland, grassy places in Brachystegia-Uapaca woodlands
Altitude range:
Flowering time:	Jan - Mar
Worldwide distribution:	Angola, DRC, Tanzania and Zambia
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Mc
Growth form(s):	Perennial.
Endemic status:
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Content last updated:	Tuesday 21 March 2023
Literature:	Beard, J.S. (1963). The genus Protea in Tropical Africa Kirkia 3 Pages 171 - 172. as Protea micans (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 104. (Includes a picture). Chisumpa, S.M., Brummitt, R.K. & Marner, S. (2006). Proteaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Page 82.

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