| Gladiolus gregarius Welw. ex Baker |
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| Family : IRIDACEAE |
| Protologue : Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1(5): 268 (1880 [1878]) |
| Information on the genus : Gladiolus |
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Status
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Antholyza descampsii De Wild. (1903) |
| =Antholyza gilletii De Wild. (1904) |
| =*Gladiolus pseudogregarius Mildbr. ex Hutch. (1936) |
| =*Gladiolus spicatus Klatt non L. |
| =Gladiolus hanningtonii Baker |
| =Gladiolus karendensis Baker |
| =Gladiolus uhehensis Harms |
| =Gladiolus corbisieri De Wild. (1913) |
| =Gladiolus elegans Vaupel |
| =Gladiolus macrospathus Goldblatt (1996) |
| =Gladiolus klattianus Hutch. |
| =Gladiolus multiflorus Baker |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Herb 0,15-1,4 m tall; corm 1,2-4 cm Ø; tunics seldom accumulating, base without neck of fibres; leaves 4-7, 3-5 basal, 0,6-2 cm wide, upper ones cauline and shorter; stem erect, unbranched; floral bracts 2-5 cm long, overlapping; flowers light to dark purple, fading later, the lower tepals with dark purple mark; tube 1,2-1,5 cm long; dorsal tepal 2-2,6 cm long. |
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| Ecology : |
Open woodland; often in rocky habitats where it is sheltered from competition; occasionally reported from wetter sites such as edges of seasonally flooded valley grassland; locally abundant; sand very humid; forest gallery; moist savanna; hollow on hard-pan; Katanga copper soil (Pl. Ecol. & Evol. 146: 185, 2013); 130-2621 m alt. |
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Near G. microspicatus, G. harmsianus. |
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Note: Geerinck treats G. microspicatus as a variety of G. erectiflorus (= var. angustifolius; cf. Taxonom. 4: 3, 2001, etc.), a smaller plant with linear leaves and not overlapping flower bracts. See below under G. microspicatus. |
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Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- LEBRUN, J. P. & A. L. STORK (1995). Enumération des plantes à fleurs d’Afrique tropicale. Monocotyledones: Limnocharitaceae à Poaceae. Énum. Pl. Fleurs Afr. Trop. 3: 89-92
- Checklist Flow. Pl. Sub-Saharan Africa : 775 (2006).
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under chg |
| see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under Flora of Mozambique |
| see under African Plants - a Photo Guide |
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| Record n°21432 |
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