South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Kniphofia flammula [family ALOACEAE]
Information
Plants usually several-stemmed. Leaves dull green to semi-glaucous, at first erect then recurving or bending ± at middle, 600-900 x 6-12 mm, narrowly keeled; margin and keel smooth. Scape subequal to leaves, 500-850 mm tall. Raceme ovoid to shortly rhomboid, 30-70 x 20-35 mm, dense; buds pendulous, flame-scarlet; flowers at first spreading, later penduÂlous, orange-yellow to salmon-orange. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or linear-lanceoÂlate, acuminate, 6.5-7.5 mm long. Pedicels 0.5-1.0 mm at flowering stage, elongating up to 2 mm in fruit. Perianth subcylindrical, 13-15 mm long; lobes ovate, 1.5 mm long, not spreadÂing. Stamens exserted by 3-4 mm at anthesis, later withdrawn. Fruit subglobose to ovoid, 6-7 mm long. Flowering time: mid-November to the end of January. Figure 9.
Habitat
If the pressed material is scrappy or the colÂlector's notes incomplete, specimens might bej confused with K. albescens or K. breviflora.. From the latter it differs in the longer perianth and from both in the buds being distinctly penÂdulous and scarlet in colour, and the bracts not as long-acuminate.
Use
10. Kniphofia flammula Codd in The Flowering Plants of Africa 34: t. 1326 (1960b); Codd: 418 (1968). Type: Natal [KwaZulu-Natal], 5.5 km NW of Glencoe, Codd 6779 (PRE, holo.!).
Range
Recorded from a restricted area near GlenÂcoe in the Dundee District, KwaZulu-Natal, where it grows with dense, tall grasses and sedges in and at the margins of vleis at an altiÂtude of ± 1 500 m. Map 4.
