Monadenium mafingense Hargr.

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Montane scrub
Mafinga Mts., Mafinga Distr.
Jan 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Synonyms:	Euphorbia mafingensis (Hargr.) Bruyns
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Frequency:	Locally common
Status:	Native
Description:	Geophyte growing from a tuberous rootstock up to 10 x 5 cm producing several spreading stems up to 5 cm long; leaves clustered at stem apices, sessile, c. 3.5 x 2.5 cm, obovate, reddish, glabrous to sparsely hairy on upper surface and with scattered hairs on lower surface, margin ± crisped and fringed with short hairs; cymes simple or reduced to solitary cyathia, peduncles and cyme branches 4-6 cm long, bracts c. 5 x 8 mm, broadly ovate, yellowish-green to red-tinged; cyathia 6 x 4 mm with broadly funnel-shaped involucres, glandular rim c. 1 mm wide, spreading, bright red; capsule 4 x 3.5 mm, obtusely lobed with a pair of minute fleshy ridges along the sutures, exserted on a reflexed pedicel c. 6 mm long; seeds c. 2.75 x 1.25 mm, oblong, 4-angled.
Type location:	Malawi, Mafingas
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	mafingense: of the Mafinga Mountains
Habitat:	Crevices in faces of rock outcrops in montane grassland and montane scrub
Altitude range:	1800 - 2250 m
Flowering time:	Dec - Mar
Worldwide distribution:	Malawi and Zambia
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Mc
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Endemic status:	Near Endemic
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Content last updated:	Monday 14 February 2022
Literature:	Carter, S. & Leach, L.C. (2001). Euphorbiaceae: subfamily Euphorbioideae: tribe Euphorbieae Flora Zambesiaca 9(5) Page 444.

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