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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Slender perennial herb, up to 70 cm tall but mostly c. 35 cm tall, growing from corms. Leaf single, linear, c. 3-6 mm wide, channelled, usually longer than the flowering stem. Stem erect, unbranched. Flowers cream to pale yellow with darker yellow nectar guides. Outer tepals lanceolate, up to 35-50 mm long, slightly reflexed. Inner tepals lanceolate, 35 mm long, erect. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | muddii: named after Christopher Mudd, English horticulturalist collector in Eastern South Africa. |
| Habitat: | Occurring in montane grassland. |
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| Flowering time: | Sep - Dec |
| Worldwide distribution: | Chimanimani Mountains, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, Mpumalanga and Eastern Cape, South Africa. |
| Mozambique distribution: | MS |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Goldblatt, P. (1993). Iridaceae Flora Zambesiaca 12(4) Pages 18 - 20. 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 92. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 83. |
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