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Frequency: | Locally abundant |
Status: | Native |
Description: |
Herb, erect, to 1 m. tall, or leaning and scrambling; with a single leafy lateral branch arising below the shorter flowering branch. Differs from G. superba in the flowers usually sessile and facing sideways, exceptionally stalked; funnel-shaped, the tepals not reflexed, orange or yellow, margins sinuate. Stamens approximately half the length of the tepals, not wide spreading, slightly upturned. |
Type location: |
Zambia |
Notes: | Conservation status: Apparently widespread in the Upper Zambezi floodplains. |
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Habitat: | In riverine thickets and grassland, on slightly elevated banks of floodplain channels, or on the lower slopes of floodplain termite mounds. . |
Altitude range: | 950 - 1000 m |
Flowering time: | Dec |
Worldwide distribution: | South-western Zambia and Angola; unconfirmed reports from Caprivi. |
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | B |
Zambian distribution (Provinces): | W |
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Endemic status: | |
Red data list status: | Lower Risk - least concern |
Insects associated with this species: | |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Wednesday 14 January 2015 |
Literature: |
Bingham, M.G. & Smith, P.P. (2002). Zambia, in Janice S. Golding: Southern African Plant Red Data List Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No 24 SABONET Page 140. Maroyi, A. (2012). The genus Gloriosa (Colchicaceae) - ethnobotany, phylogeny and taxonomy Wageningen University, Netherlands Page 120. Thesis (Includes a picture). Nordal, I. & Bingham, M.G. (1998). Description of a new species, Gloriosa sessiliflora (Colchicaceae), with notes on the relationship between Gloriosa and Littonia. Kew Bulletin 53 Page 479. (Includes a picture). Vinnersten, A. & Manning, J. (2007). A new classification of Colchicaceae. Taxon 56 Pages 171 - 178. |
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