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Anthericopsis sepalosa
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Picture: Ton Rulkens
Ancuabe district (Cabo Delgado province)
Picture: Ton Rulkens
Ancuabe district (Cabo Delgado province)
Picture: Ton Rulkens
Ancuabe district (Cabo Delgado province)
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| Synonyms: |
Aneilema sepalosum C.B. Clarke Anthericopsis fischeri Engl. Anthericopsis tradescantiodes Chiov. Gilletia sepalosa (C.B. Clarke) Rendle |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Hairless perennial herb, usually less than 30 cm tall, growing from ovoid to ellipsoid tubers. Leaves in a basal rosette, lanceolate to oblanceolate-elliptic, 4-31 cm long. Inflorescence terminal or occasionally axillary from the rosette or axillary from a leaf on the peduncle. Bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, 0.7-5 cm long. Flowers c. 2.5 cm wide; sepals linear-lanceolate-elliptic, 10-25 mm long; petals much broader elliptic, 15-25 cm, white to pale pink or mauve, rarely blueish; stamens yellow. Capsules linear-oblong, 20-35 mm long. |
| Type location: |
Syntypes from Kenya and Malawi |
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| Habitat: | In wet and waterlogged grassland, at edges of thickets and in Terminalia woodland. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | ? |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Friday 5 February 2016 |
| Literature: |
Faden, R. (2012). Commelinaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 49 - 50. (Includes a picture). |
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Anthericopsis sepalosa
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