Syngonanthus welwitschii (Rendle) Ruhland

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Small valley North-east of Mt Binga, Chimanimani Mts

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Synonyms:	Paepalanthus welwitschii Rendle
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Status:	Native
Description:	Tiny annual herb, mostly less than 5 cm high. Leaves numerous in a basal rosette, narrowly linear, up to 1 m long and less than 1 mm wide. Scapes up to 50,1-4 cm high, 3-ribbed with long spreading glandular hairs mixed with shorter hairs. Capitulum 1.5-2.5 mm wide, few-flowered; involucral bracts few,1.2-1.5 mm long, subequal, shiny white, extending beyond the flowers. Flowers 5-9, straw-coloured, 0.5-0.7 mm long with 4-7 sessile female flowers surrounding 1-2 shortly pedicelled male flowers.
Notes:	Before now this species has within the Flora Zambesiaca area only been recorded from Northwestern Zambia so the specimens in the images above (Ballings & Wursten 2304) are the first record for Mozambique.
Derivation of specific name:	welwitschii: named after the Austrian botanist, Friedrich Martin Welwitsch (1806-1872)
Habitat:	Wet ground in grassy places, on sandy and stony soil.
Altitude range:	1685 m (approx)
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, southern DRC, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique. Also in Sierra Leone.
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Content last updated:	Saturday 22 November 2014
Literature:	Phillips, S.M. (1998). Eriocaulaceae of the Flora Zambesiaca area Kirkia 17(1) Page 64. Phillips, S.M. (2010). Eriocaulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(4) Pages 83 - 84. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 114. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 82.

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