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Polygala nyikensis
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Zovo Chipolo Trail, Nyika National Park
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Zovo Chipolo Trail, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Zovo Chipolo Trail, Nyika National Park
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herb with annual, crisped-pubescent stems, 6–14 cm tall, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves very narrowly elliptic-oblong, 5–22 mm long, somewhat pubescent when young but soon becoming hairless, apex mucronulate. Inflorescences short, somewhat congested, terminal racemes 2–5 cm long, bracts and bracteoles 1.5–2 mm long, persistent. Flowers magenta or pale mauve with pedicels up to 5 mm long. Posterior sepal 3 mm long; wing sepals obliquely elliptic, 6–7 mm long, hairless; anterior sepals 2.5 mm long, free. Upper petals broadly falcate, 5.5 mm long; carina 6 mm long, crest 2.5 mm long. Capsule suborbicular 5.5 mm long, slightly pubescent. |
| Type location: |
Malawi |
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| Derivation of specific name: | nyikensis: of the Nyika Plateau in Malawi where the type specimen was collected. |
| Habitat: | In montane grassland. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 2250 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Northern Malawi and Northeastern Zambia. |
| National distribution: | E |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Mc |
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| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Wednesday 30 October 2019 |
| 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 227. as Polygala nyikense Exell, A.W. (1960). Polygalaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Page 317. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 84. |
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Polygala nyikensis
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