Compilation
Chortolirion stenophyllum
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Name
Identification
Chortolirion stenophyllum (Baker) A.Berger [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
Related name
- Chortolirion stenophyllum
Flora
Entry for Chortolirion angolense Baker A. Berger [family ALOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 12, Part 3, page 48, (2001) Author: S. Kativu
Names
Haworthia tenuifolia Engl. [family ALOACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 10: 2 (1888). —J.G. Baker in F.C. 6: 355 (1896). Type from South Africa.
Haworthia stenophylla Baker [family ALOACEAE], in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 20: t. 1974 (1891); in F.C. 6: 355 (1896). Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Haworthia subspicata Baker [family ALOACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 4: 998 (1904). Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Chortolirion stenophyllum Baker A. Berger [family ALOACEAE], in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV, fam. No. 38, III, II (Heft 33): 72 (1908). —Dyer in Fl. Pl. S. Africa 24: pl. 932 (1944).
Chortolirion angolense Baker A. Berger [family ALOACEAE], in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV, fam. No. 38, III, II (Heft 33): 73 (1908). —Court, Succ. Fl. South. Africa: 171 (1981). —Smith in Aloe 28: 90 (1991). —Smith, Cole & van Wyk in Taxon 42: 369 (1993). TAB. 12.3.12. Type from Angola.
Haworthia angolensis Baker [family ALOACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 263 (1878); in F.T.A. 7: 469 (1898). —Rendle in Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 46 (1899). Type as above.
Chortolirion tenuifolium Engl. A. Berger [family ALOACEAE], in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV, fam. No. 38, III, II (Heft 33): 73 (1908).
Chortolirion subspicatum Baker A. Berger [family ALOACEAE], in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV, fam. No. 38, III, II (Heft 33): 73 (1908). —Sölch et al. in Merxmüller, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 147: 37 (1970).
Chortolirion bergerianum Dinter [family ALOACEAE], Neue und wenig bekannte Pfl. Deutsch-SW-Afrikas: 24 (1914). Type from Namibia.
Information
An acaulescent semi-succulent perennial herb from an underground bulb-like base. Bulb 2–4 cm in diameter, obovoid-oblong, with several truncate membranous scales covering the inner loosely-packed expanded leaf bases. Roots few, 5–6 mm thick. Leaves lengthening to 20 cm in height, 2–6 mm broad, linear, spotted at the base, with a persistent part 5–12 cm above the neck of the bulb; margins with minute cartilaginous densely crowded teeth, ± setose at the leaf base, the upper teeth recurved and up to 2 mm apart. Inflorescence 30–100 cm high. Raceme 5–20-flowered, 15–40 cm long, with flowers held erect; bracts 6–8 × 2–3 mm, pinkish-brown; pedicels c. 1 mm long. Perianth greenish-brown with free part of the segments papery-white, c. 15 mm long; tube cylindrical, c. 10 mm long and 2.5–3 mm in diameter across the ovary, narrowing slightly above, two-lipped, tips of the upper 3 segments erect, tips of the lower 3 segments recurved. Style c. 1.5 mm long, shorter than the stamens. Capsule ± 3-angled, 25 × 7 mm, narrowing at the base and apex, greyish-brown. Seeds not seen.
Habitat
In open grassland, and amongst grass in open Brachystegia woodland
Range
from southern Angola and Namibia eastwards to South Africa (North West, Northern, Gauteng and Mpumulanga Provinces)
Altitude range
1000–1550 m.
1550
1000
Distribution
Zimbabwe C Marondera (Marandellas), fl. & fr. 19.iii.1951, Corby 703 (SRGH).Botswana N 19 km south of border on Bulawayo–Francistown road, fl. 7.iii.1961, Leach & Noel 37, cult. in Leach 10745 (SRGH).Zimbabwe W Plumtree Commonage, fl. iii.1949, R.M. Davies 299 (SRGH).Botswana SE Molepolole, fl. ii.1955, Codd 8927 (K; PRE).