| Chlorophytum brachystachyum Baker |
|
|
|
Family : Anthericaceae |
|
Family (APGIII) : ASPARAGACEAE |
| Protologue : Gard. Chron., ser. 3 1: 711 (1893) |
| Information on the genus : Chlorophytum |
| |
|
| |
|
Status
|
| Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
|
| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
|
| |
| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Chlorophytum trachycarpum Oberm. (1962) |
| |
| Ecology and distribution |
|
|
| Biology : |
Herb often clumped, 25-45 cm tall; rhizome short, vertical; roots swollen or with tubers; leaves rosulate, narrowed at base, oblong-lanceolate, 5-40x0,5-4 cm, fimbriate, margins crisped and ciliate; peduncle terete, shallowly angled, 5-40 cm long; inflorescence usually an unbranched, dense raceme, sometimes forked at base; pedicels articulated above middle, ± 5 mm long in fruit, 2-5 at lower nodes; perianth white; tepals papillate, 4,5-6x1,5-2 mm, 3-5-veined; capsule deltate to slightly 3-lobed in section, emarginate, papillate, tuberculate or transversally lined when mature, c. 4x4-5 mm. |
|
| Ecology : |
Rock-like clayey hardpan soils; termite mounds, within open woodland; often near water-courses; sodic soils; 350-1600 m alt. |
| |
Forming a complex with C. pauper. – Plants from SE Zaire may belong here (treated as C. cf. brachystachyum by Meerts & Bjorå, o.c.), marked with ? on our map |
|
|
|
| Biol./Eco : |
perennial-Herb- Ht 0.25 - 0.4 m. Alt: ? - 915 m. Distribution: BOT, NAM |
|
Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- (1997). Flora of Tropical East Africa Anthericaceae: 52-54
Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Kirkia 15: 43-111 (1994).
|
| |
| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
| |
| Map |
 |
| |
| Record n°33639 |
| Feedback about this record |
