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Common names:
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Frequency:
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Locally common |
Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Perennial herb up to 1.3 m tall growing from a globose corm; stem bearing 6-7 overlapping sheathing leaves; foliage leaf solitary, inserted near base and reaching to base of flower spike, lamina lanceolate and shallowly pleated; inflorescence branched with lowest branches sometimes rebranching, several flowers produced per branch; flowers dark maroon-purple with lower five tepals with pale whitish transverse band above base; perianth tube 3-4 mm, widening gradually in upper half; tepals unequal, linear-spathulate; capsules c. 3 mm long, broadly 3-lobed. |
Type location:
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Notes:
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Derivation of specific name:
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atropurpurea: dark purple, referring to the flowers |
Habitat:
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Miombo woodland |
Altitude range: |
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Flowering time: | Mar - Apr |
Worldwide distribution:
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Only known from the type collection in northern Zambia |
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):
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N |
Zambian distribution (Provinces):
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N |
Growth form(s):
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Perennial.
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Endemic status:
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Endemic |
Red data list status:
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Insects associated with this species:
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Spot characters:
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Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: |
Monday 3 October 2022 |
Literature:
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Goldblatt, P., Manning, J.C., Wightman, N., McCleland, W. (2019). Zygotritonia atropurpurea (Iridaceae: Crocoideae), a new local endemic species from northern Zambia of this small tropical African genus. South African Journal of Botany 124 Pages 20 - 22.
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