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| Family : HYPOXIDACEAE |
| Protologue : J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 17: 109 (1878) |
| Information on the genus : Hypoxis |
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Status
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| Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Hypoxis dregei (Baker) Nel p.p. based on Cooper 1811 |
| =Hypoxis sericea var. dregei Baker p.p. based on Cooper 1811 |
| =Hypoxis biflora De Wild. |
| =Hypoxis dregei var. biflora (De Wild.) Nel |
| =Hypoxis malosana Baker (1897) |
| =Hypoxis muenznerii Nel |
| =Hypoxis caespitosa Baker (1901) |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Herb, slender, 20-50 cm tall; tuber cylindrical, 1-5x1-4 cm, often dividing into several smaller, white to yellow inside; roots white; tunics fibrous, stiff, black, to c. 6 cm long; outer leaves 1-3, ovate, 3-14x0,4-1 cm, pilose beneath with 2-branched hairs; inner leaves 5-11, linear, 3-16x0,1-0,3 cm, margins and midrib beneath hispid, with 2-branched hairs white to golden (herbarium); scapes 1-10, 2,5-50 cm long, < 1 mm Ø, often tinged red, ciliate in lower half, pubescent in upper half; flowers single or cymes 2-4-flowered, pedicels of various length; tepals lemon to orange- yellow inside, with green stripe outside, elliptic, 6-12x2-3 mm; capsule obovoid, 3-5x2-3 mm, pubescent. |
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| Ecology : |
Rocky wet grassland; swampy and dambo grassland; coastal swampy grassland; peat bogs; Protea woodland; grassy glades; pastures; near cultivations; often following annual fires; on limestone, clay, sandy soil, black volcanic soil; locally very common; 0-960-3100 m alt. (most common 1500-2500 m). |
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H. canaliculata is very close (cf. above under that species). |
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In Flore du Congo…, Hypoxid.: 5, 1971, the plants cited under H. angustifolia partly belong to H. filiformis (and H. kilimanjarica). |
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| Biol./Eco : |
perennial-Geophyte- Ht 0.05 - 0.25 m. Alt: 10 - 2100 m. Distribution: LES, EC, FS, GA, KN, LP, MP, NW, SWZ |
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Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Checklist Flow. Pl. Sub-Saharan Africa : 768 (2006).
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under African Plants - a Photo Guide |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
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| Record n°22739 modified 2007-03-22 |
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