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Synonyms: |
Eriocaulon amphibium Rendle |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Perennial herb, growing from a short rhizome, often forming clusters of leaf rosettes. Leaves lanceolate, 4-10 cm long, thick and spongy, yellow-green, often with a hard yellow-brown tip, woolly in the axils. Flowering stem often solitary, 25-65 cm high, 6-8-ribbed, sheaths usually much longer than the leaf rosette, often ragged at the mouth. Capitulum subglobose, 8-12 mm wide, grey, becoming white; involucral bracts shorter than capitulum, broadly elliptic, c. 3 mm long, yellow, brown or coppery. Flowers c. 5 mm long greyish-white with hairy tips; male flowers with black anthers. |
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Habitat: | In seasonal pools, swampy ground and peat bogs. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 1500 - 2200 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Angola, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | W,C,E |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Wednesday 10 October 2018 |
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 307. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 16. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 90. Phillips, S.M. (1998). Eriocaulaceae of the Flora Zambesiaca area Kirkia 17(1) Pages 27 - 28. Phillips, S.M. (2010). Eriocaulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(4) Pages 48 - 49. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 114. |
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