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Brachythrix pawekiae
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park
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| Frequency: | Occasional |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Ascending to suberect perennial herb 20–40 cm tall, with annual stems growing from a small woody rootstock and short tuberous roots. Stems single, purple, sparsely branching above, shortly hairy. Leaves mostly in the midle part of the stem and longest, narrowly oblong-elliptic, 3–9 cm long, sparsely shortly hairy above; strigose beneath, particularly on the veins; margin subentire or with widely spaced teeth. Capitula solitary at the end of each branch; branches up to c. 6 cm long, together forming a lax cymosehead. Involucres up to 10 mm long and slighrly wider than long. Bracts many-seriate, finely tapering to a bristle tip, very narrowly lanceolate, hairy. Florets c. 70 per capitulum. Corollas purple, 5–6 mm long. Achenes subcylindric to narrowly turbinate, 1.5–2 mm long, more or less quadrangular and narrowly ribbed on the angles; pappus 2-seriate, outer reduced to a low rim of small lacerate scales, inner of caducous brown barbellate setae 1–2 mm long. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | pawekiae: after Jean Pawek (1927-), school teacher in Malawi and one of the most prolific collector of plants in Malawi, particularly on the Nyika Plateau. |
| Habitat: | Montane grassland. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Only known from the Nyika Plateau in Malawi. |
| Malawi distribution: | N |
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| Endemic status: | Endemic |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Wednesday 8 May 2019 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 86. Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Pages 178 - 180. (Includes a picture). Wild, H. & Pope, G.V. (1977). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 9. Vernonieae (Brachythrix and Hoehnelia). Kirkia 11(1) Pages 139 - 141. (Includes a picture). Wild, H. & Pope, G.V. (1978). Brachythrix: a new genus of the tribe Vernonieae (Compositae) from South Central Africa. Kirkia 11(1) Pages 29 - 30. Protologue Willis, C.K., Burrows, J.E., Fish, L., Phiri, P.S.M., Chikuni, A.C. & Golding, J. (2001). Developing a greater understanding of the flora of the Nyika Syst. Geogr. Pl. 71(2) Page 999. |
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