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| Frequency: | Locally common |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herb growing from a creeping rhizome. Leafy shoot up to 20 cm tall; leaf lamina narrow, 15-18 x 2.5-3 cm, lanceolate, acute at apex ad narrowed acuminately at base into a petiole base above the sheath. Flowering stems few or solitary, erect from base of leafy shoot and exceeded by it. Flowers solitary or few, subtended at base by thinly papery bracts. Calyx 3.5 cm long, tube 1.8 cm long, lobes 1.9 cm long. Corolla brown-punctulate outside; petals subequal, 2.5-3 cm long, ovate to oblong; labellum very broad, 4 cm longer than petals, trilobed with all lobes irregularly erose-crenulate, lilac-pink. |
| Type location: |
W Zambia? |
| Notes: | Red Data list status: DD (Poorly known from few specimens) |
| Derivation of specific name: | puncticulatus: dotted or marked with spots or glands, in reference to the corolla. |
| Habitat: | Kalahari (Brachystegia) woodland on Kalahari sand |
| Altitude range: | 1200 - 1400 m |
| Flowering time: | Nov - Dec |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DRC and Zambia |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | B,W |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Nw,W |
| Growth form(s): | Perennial. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | Data deficient |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Lock, J.M. (2010). Zingiberaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(4) Pages 131 - 133. |
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