Chlorophytum sphacelatum (Baker) Kativu
var. milanjianum (Rendle) Nordal

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Chlorophytum sphacelatum var. milanjianum

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Lilayi Lodge, Lusaka District, Lusaka

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Synonyms:	Anthericum friesii Weim. Anthericum milanjianum Rendle Anthericum princeae Engl. & K. Krause var. latifolium Poelln. Anthericum whytei Baker Chlorophytum sphacelatum (Baker) Kativu subsp. milanjianum (Rendle) Kativu
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Status:	Native
Description:	More or less robust herb, up to 90 cm high, growing from a regularly constricted horizontal rhizome, sometimes forming clumps. Roots wiry, with tubers at the tips. Leaves 3-10 per plant, in 2 rows, narrowly lanceolate, narrowing at the base and clasping the basal part of the peduncle, up to 1 m long but generally shorter in this variety, surface closely ribbed. Peduncle flat and winged, mostly leafless but often with smaller leaf-like bracts below the inflorescence, hairless but scabrid-ciliate on the wings. Inflorescence unbranched or with 2 short branches at the base, moderately densely flowered, up to 13 cm long; pedicels up to 3 per node, 8-11 mm long in fruit,articulated below the middle. Flowers whitish with tepals 9-11 mm long, 5-9-veined, outer tepals often with blackish-reddish tips. Stamens shorter than anthers. Capsule obovoid, shallowly 3-lobed, transfersely ridged.
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Derivation of specific name:	milanjianum: of Mt Mulanje in southern Malawi where the type of this taxon was collected.
Habitat:	In open woodland, on stony soil and on termite mounds.
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Worldwide distribution:	Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and northern Namibia.
Botswana distribution:	N,SE
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Content last updated:	Wednesday 16 May 2018
Literature:	Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 342. (Includes a picture). Kativu, S., Hoell, G., Bjorå, C. S. & Nordal, I. (2008). Anthericaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(1) Pages 42 - 43. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 85. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 105. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 114. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 41.

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