Pandiaka rubrolutea
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Habit
Savannah grasslands
Nsumbu National Park
May 2020
Photo: Nick Wightman
Inflorescence
Savannah grasslands
Nsumbu National Park
May 2020
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Synonyms: |
Achyranthes rubro-lutea Lopr. Cyathula rubrolutea (Lopr.) Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch Pandiaka andongensis Hiern |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual herb, usually much branched growing up to 90 cm tall; stem and branches ridged, often reddish, moderately to densely covered in long soft hairs; leaves broadly obovate to linear, 1.5-8.5 x 0.2-3.5 cm., thinly to moderately covered in long soft hairs, sessile, blunt to subacute at apex; inflorescence green with apices of bracts, bracteoles and tepals frequently pink to carmine, conical when young but becoming subglobose to cylindrical, 1.2-6.5 x 1.2-1.4 cm., very dense on a short to long peduncle up to 11 cm. long or rarely sessile through branch-condensation and then often with short lateral inflorescences at the base; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long, white-membranous, glabrous or sparingly hairy along the central dorsal surface, tapering to apex; bracteoles narrower, lanceolate, 2.75-5 mm. long, more densely hairy; flowers truncate at base, fused to bracteoles and attached to the inflorescence axis by a knob-like stalk; tepals lanceolate-subulate, greenish with stout midrib ending in a pale to reddish pointed tip 1-2 mm. long, outer 5.5-7 mm. long with upwardly directed white hairs, inner c. 1 mm. shorter and narrower; perianth and bracteoles falling in one unit in fruit; capsule oblong-ovoid, 2-2.25 mm. long; seed c. 2 mm. long, oblong-ellipsoid, shiny brown. |
| Type location: |
Angola |
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| Flowering time: | Feb - May |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DR Congo (Katanga), Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
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| Literature: |
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 16. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 46. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 21. Townsend, C.C. (1988). Amaranthaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(1) Pages 116 - 118. (Includes a picture). Troupin, G. (1978). Amaranthaceae Flore du Rwanda Spermatophytes Volume I Pages 249 - 250. as Pandiaka andongensis (Includes a picture). |
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