| Eriospermum paludosum Welw. ex Baker |
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Family : Eriospermaceae |
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Family (APGIII) : ASPARAGACEAE |
| Protologue : Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1(5): 261 (1880 [1878]) |
| Information on the genus : Eriospermum |
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Status
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| Statuts nomenclatural : uncertain status |
| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Tuber oblong or globose, c. 2-2,5 cm Ø, flesh red, crowned with copious fibrous remains of old leaves; leaves 2-3, contemporary with flowers, short-petiolate; lamina oblong, acute, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 2,5-5x1-1,8 cm; scape 10-15 cm long; raceme lax, 7,5-15 cm long, 15-30-flowered, rachis flexuose; pedicels ascending, lower ones in fruit 2,5 cm long; perianth c. 1 cm long; tepals white, or yellow ?, keel red-brown. |
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| Ecology : |
Frequent in swamps. |
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Insufficiently known. Type: Welwitsch 3761 (also “2761” which seems to be a wrong transcript, fide Perry, l.c.); Angola: Pungo Andongo, from Candumba and Mutollo to Quisonde, collected in 1857. |
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Close to E. mackenii. |
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Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Contr. Bolus Herb. 17: 1-320 (1994).
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under chg |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
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| Map |
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| Record n°14531 |
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