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Dianthus chimanimaniensis

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Dianthus chimanimaniensis Hooper. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
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Flora

Entry for Dianthus chimanimaniensis Hooper [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 2, page 337, (1961) Author: H. Wild
Names
Dianthus chimanimaniensis Hooper [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1958: 318 (1958); in Hook., Ic. Pl. 37: t. 3605 (1959). Type: Mozambique, Chimanimani Mts., Musapa Gap, Phipps 838 (K, holotype; SRGH).
Information
Caespitose, glaucous herb. Flowering shoots branched from near the base, leafy below, branches bearing solitary terminal flowers. Leaves rather short, 2 × 2·5 cm. × 1·5–2 mm., about half as long as the subtended internode; lamina thin, conspicuously and evenly 3-nerved from base to apex; sheath very short, minutely hispid. Calyx bracts 4, lower pair markedly smaller than upper pair, upper pair lanceolate-elliptic, c. 1·0 cm. × 4 mm. with an acute and minutely apiculate apex. Calyx c. 3·5 cm. × 4 mm., with lobes c. 7 mm. long. Anthophore c. 3 mm. long. Petal-lamina white or pale pink, obovate-elliptic, deeply pinnately fimbriate, fimbriae up to 1·2 cm. long; stigmas exserted c. 1·0 cm. beyond petals.
Habitat
The type was collected on quartzite slopes above the level of scattered Brachystegia tamarindoides in submontane scrub.
Range
Known only from the type collection.
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., Musapa Gap, fl. 20.xii.1957, Phipps 838 (K; SRGH).
Notes
Readily distinguished from the other Central and South African species of this genus by the deeply fimbriate petal-laminae.

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