Chlorophytum sphacelatum (Baker) Kativu
var. hockii (De Wild.) Nordal

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Photo: Nicholas Wightman
Understory of miombo woodland growing amongst grasses and herbs near Kalungwishi River between Lumangwe and Kabwelume Falls

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Status:	Native
Description:	Robust perennial; 80-165 cm high, growing from a horizontal rhizome; roots wiry with tubers at tips; leaves in 2 rows, 3-10 per plant, narrowly lanceolate, 18-100 x 0.5-6 cm; peduncle with a few bract like leaves below the inflorescence, flat and winged; inflorescence usually unbranched, subglobose, dense; pedicels 1-3 per node; perianth white, tepals 9-11 mm, 5-9 veined; capsules obovoid to shallowly deltoid, 6-8 mm long; seeds irregular folded, 1-2 mm across.
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Altitude range:	1200 - 1400 m
Flowering time:	Nov - Mar
Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Tanzania, DRC, Malawi, Zambia
Malawi distribution:	N
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Literature:	Kativu, S., Hoell, G., Bjorå, C. S. & Nordal, I. (2008). Anthericaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(1) Pages 42 - 44.

Flora of Zambia: Chlorophytum sphacelatum var. hockii

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