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Hypoxis luzuloides

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Name

Identification
Hypoxis luzuloides Robyns & Tournay [family HYPOXIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Hypoxis angustifolia Lam. [family HYPOXIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by J. Wiland, 1995
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  • Hypoxis luzuloides
  • Hypoxis angustifolia

Flora

Entry for Hypoxis angustifolia (Robyns & Tournay) Wiland var. luzuloides [family HYPOXIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2006) Author: J. WILAND-SZYMAŃSKA & I. NORDAL
Names
Hypoxis angustifolia (Robyns & Tournay) Wiland var. luzuloides [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in Novon 12:148 (2002). Type: Congo-Kinshasa, Kivu, Tschambi, de Witte 1130 (BR!, holo.)
Hypoxis luzuloides Robyns & Tournay [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 25: 254 (1955); Robyns & Tournay in F.P.N.A. 3: 390, t. 53 (1955)
Information
Seeds dark brown, subglobose, 0.8–1.2 mm diameter; testa papillose, each papilla with a minutely wrinkled cuticle and 3–4 longitudinal narrow wing-like ribs (as in Fig. 1: 6, p. 4).
Range
DISTR. U 1–4; K 1–7; T 1–8; P, Z widespread in tropical and southern Africa; Madagascar and Yemen
Altitude range
0–3000 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Moyale, 16 Apr. 1952, Gillett 12799!KENYA Kisumu-Londiani District Tinderet Forest Reserve, Camp 4, 29 June 1949, Maas Geesteranus 5220!KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Pengo Hill area, 27 Mar. 1968, Magogo & Glover 498!TANZANIA Moshi District 16 km on Moshi–Arusha road, 15 Dec. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 987!TANZANIA Tanga District flats by Lwengera River, 4 km E of Korogwe, 16 July 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3335!TANZANIA Dodoma District road to Homboro from Great North Road (near Dodoma), 7 Mar. 1966, McCusker 98!TANZANIA Zanzibar, Kizimbani, 20 May 1959, Faulkner 2262!UGANDA Ankole District Ruizi River, 15 May 1950, Jarrett 55!UGANDA Busoga District Butembe Bunya, on S slopes of Wanyange Hill 8 km E of Jinja, 22 Aug. 1952, G.H.S. Wood 354!UGANDA Mengo District Wakyato-Luwero, 21 Apr. 1956, Langdale-Brown 2067!
Notes
It has turned out that the seed structure is different in the type specimen of H. angustifolia from Mauritius, in lacking the typical cuticular folding that is found on the seeds of the African mainland plants (Fig. 1: 3 & 6, p. 4), and therefore is referred to a separate variety. See Wiland-Szymaƒska & Adamski in Novon 12: 142–151 (2002).

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