Xyris schliebenii Poelln.

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Northwestern slopes below Mt Dombe, Chimanimani Mts.

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Status:	Native
Description:	This species is generally very similar to Xyris rubella but can be distinguished by the smooth, not finely wrinkled sheaths and laminas; the incurved, obtuse or mucronate (not straight and aristate) leaf laminas, and in the more strongly keeled, emarginate and apiculate fertile bracts.
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Derivation of specific name:	schliebenii: Hans-Joachim Eberhardt Schlieben (1902-1975), German botanist, photographer, and writer who collected in Tanzania and South Africa.
Habitat:	Seasonally wet grassland and on or around rocky outcrops.
Altitude range:	300 - 2200 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe but may be more widespread in tropical Africa. Often growing together and mixed in collections with X. rubella.
Mozambique distribution:	N,MS
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Content last updated:	Friday 5 December 2014
Literature:	Lock, J.M. (2010). Xyridaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(4) Pages 30 - 31. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 112. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 87.

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