Published In:
Flora Zambesiaca: Mozambique, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Bechuanaland Protectorate 12(4): 93. 1993. ( Fl. Zambes.) 
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(Last Modified On 12/23/2016)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 12/23/2016)
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Description:
Plants 60–90 cm high. Cataphylls firm to coriaceous, often puberulent. Leaves not contemporaneous with the flowers, those on the flowering stem short and entirely sheathing, two to four, 6–14 cm long, or sometimes with blades 2–3(–5) cm long and 6–12 mm wide, imbricate and sheathing the lower half of the stem; foliage leaves emerging from separate shoots later, usually at least two, narrowly lanceolate, 30–50 cm long, 4–16 mm wide. Spike (2–)3- to 9-flowered; bracts (25–)40–55 mm long. Flowers with the tube 25–33(–40) mm long; dorsal tepal 35–45 mm long, 22–25 mm at the widest. Filaments c. 25 mm long, exserted 15–18 mm from the tube; anthers 12–15 mm long. Chromosome number 2n = 30. Floweringt ime; early in the wet season, usually 3–4 weeks after the first rains, February to May in western Africa, November and December in eastern and central Africa.
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Country:
Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Cameroon
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Distribution and ecology:
evidently distributed through the wetter highland areas of tropical Africa, including the highlands of western Africa in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast, and in Cameroon and adjacent western Central African Republic. Coastal records from the Shimba Hills of Kenya and Zambézia Province of Mozambique; grassland and outcrops, flowering 2 to 4 weeks after the onset of the rainy season.
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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
Iringa, Mufindi:
1830 m,
08°30'00"S 035°15'00"E,
04 February 1987,
J.C. Lovett 1259
(MO)
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Tanzania
Mbeya, Mbeya Rural:
1720 m,
08°50'00"S 033°20'00"E,
25 November 1989,
J.C. Lovett & C.J. Kayombo 3514
(MO)
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Tanzania
Kagera, Bukoba Rural:
1226 m,
01°02'26"S 031°32'29"E,
14 August 2001,
L. Festo & W. Bayona 1769
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Tanzania
Kagera, Bukoba Rural:
1140 m,
01°01'52"S 031°30'29"E,
16 September 1999,
L. Festo & W. Bayona 329
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Tanzania
Iringa, Ludewa:
2000 m,
09°45'00"S 034°39'00"E,
15 November 1987,
L.B. Mwasumbi, Magehema, Duncan W. Thomas & et al. 13779
(MO)
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Tanzania
Rukwa, Mpanda:
1080 m,
06°41'22"S 030°44'54"E,
1 December 2002,
Nathan A. Mwangulango 1042
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Tanzania
Mbeya, Mbeya Rural:
1390 m,
09°52'58"S 033°19'11"E,
27 January 2008,
Roy E. Gereau, Christopher Davidson & Sharon R. Christoph 7054
(NHT)
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Tanzania
Mbeya, Mbeya Rural:
1390 m,
09°52'58"S 033°19'11"E,
27 January 2008,
Roy E. Gereau, Christopher Davidson & Sharon R. Christoph 7054
(MO)
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