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(Last Modified On 2/10/2017)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 2/10/2017)
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Description:
Plants solitary, 200–350 mm high, with irregularly town cataphylls. Corm ca. 15 mm diam.; tunics of pale medium-textured fibers. Stem unbranched, bearing 2, usually overlapping sheathing leaves ca. 90 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, 150–250 mm long, seldom reaching beyond middle of rhipidial spathes, channeled, inserted shortly above ground. Rhipidia solitary; spathes green, attenuate; inner 90–100 mm long, outer ca. 2/3 as long. Flowers yellow; outer tepals 45–55 mm long, limbs 300–35 mm long, spreading; inner tepals erect, 35–45 mm long. Filaments 12–15 mm long, free in upper 1/2; anthers ca. 10 mm long. Ovary 17–22 mm long; style branches 17–20 mm long, crests ca. 13 mm long. Capsules nearly cylindric, up to 30 mm long; seeds flattened, discoid. Chromosome number 2n = 12. Flowering time: January to March.
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Country:
Tanzania, Malawi
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Distribution and ecology:
restricted to northern Malawi and southern Tanzania, at high altitudes, 2,000-3,000 m; in open mountain grassland.
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Diagnosis:
Moraea tanzanica is related to the M. textilis complex, and particularly to yellow-flowered M. verdickii but is a much smaller plant, up to 350 mm long, with a very large flower. It can always be distinguished from M. verdickii by its consistently short leaf which reaches to about the middle of the spathes. Among the smaller species of Moraea in tropical Africa M. tanzanica most closely resembles M. brevifolia, which often has a shorter leaf and solitarycauline sheathing leaf, and M. clavata, an early-flowering species with much smaller flowers. M. brevifolia, is confined to central Zambia and occurs only in marshy habitats.
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Specimens whose coordinates are enclosed in square brackets [ ] have been mapped to a standard reference mark based on political
units.
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Africa & Madagascar
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Tanzania
Mbeya, Rungwe:
09°09'00"S 033°49'00"E,
A.F. Stolz 2412
(K)
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Tanzania
Iringa, Makete:
2400 m,
09°05'00"S 033°58'00"E,
01 March 1991,
H.O. Suleiman & M.J. Fundi 45
(MO)
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Tanzania
Iringa, Makete:
2600 m,
09°00'00"S 034°00'00"E,
17 January 1988,
J.C. Lovett & T.C.E. Congdon 2904
(MO)
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Tanzania
Mbeya, Rungwe:
2500 m,
09°06'00"S 033°39'00"E,
08 February 1961,
Mary A.E. (Mrs. H.M.) Richards 14314
(K)
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Tanzania
Iringa, Ludewa:
2320 m,
09°51'00"S 034°27'00"E,
12 February 1991,
Roy E. Gereau & C.J. Kayombo 3974
(MO)
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Tanzania
Iringa, Makete:
Kitulo (Elton) Plateau,
2700 m,
09°02'00"S 033°57'00"E,
13 January 1989,
Roy E. Gereau, J.C. Lovett & et al. 2831
(MO)
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Tanzania
Iringa, Makete:
2500 m,
09°02'00"S 033°55'00"E,
25 February 2009,
Y.S. Abeid & R. Salter 3107
(TFD)
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Tanzania
Iringa, Makete:
2500 m,
09°02'00"S 033°55'00"E,
25 February 2009,
Y.S. Abeid & R. Salter 3107
(MO)
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Tanzania
Iringa, Makete:
2500 m,
09°02'00"S 033°55'00"E,
25 February 2009,
Y.S. Abeid & R. Salter 3107
(SHCP)
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Tanzania
Iringa, Makete:
2500 m,
09°02'00"S 033°55'00"E,
25 February 2009,
Y.S. Abeid & R. Salter 3107
(NHT)
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