Xyris rubella Malme

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Status: Native
Description:
Small annual herb, mostly less than 25 cm high, growing in loose tufts. Leaves in two rows, mostly 2-6 cm long, hairless but finely wrinkled. Peduncle mostly up to 20 cm long, 2-winged, especially towards the apex, finely wrinkled. Inflorescence subglobose, c. 3 mm in diameter. Sterile bracts smooth, wine-red to reddish-brown; fertile bracts keeled, pale brown with a darker keel. Lateral sepals folded, pale brown. Corolla with tube 2 mm long and lobes suborbicular, c. 1.8 mm wide, yellow.
Notes: See Xyris schliebenii for comparison.
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Habitat: In shallow soils on rocky outcrops and among clumps of grass in seasonally wet grassland, often growing together with other Xyris and Eriocaulon spp.
Altitude range: 300 - 1700 m
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Worldwide distribution: Widespread in tropical Africa.
Malawi distribution: N,C
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Literature:

Lock, J.M. (2010). Xyridaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(4) Pages 29 - 30.

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 112.

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 149.

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Malawi: Species information: Xyris rubella.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=112280, retrieved 28 March 2024

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