Two new species of Spiloxene (Hypoxidaceae) from the northwestern Cape, South Africa

Autor:	D. A. Snijman
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Hypoxidaceae new species South Africa Spiloxene Salisb. taxonomy winter rainfall region General. Including nature conservation geographical distribution QH1-199.5
Zdroj:	Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, Vol 36, Iss 2, Pp 133-138 (2006)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	0006-8241 2311-9284
DOI:	10.4102/abc.v36i2.351
Popis:	Newly described are two new species of Spiloxene Salisb.: S. nana Snijman from the Bokkeveld Escarpment, Northern Cape Province, is a shade-loving plant with narrow, pale green leaves and small, white or rarely cream-coloured flowers; S. pusilla Snijman from the Matsikamma, Gifberg and Pakhuis Mountains. Western Cape Province, resembles S. nana in habit but the yellow- or white-tepalled flowers which are tetramerous or hexamerous have darkly coloured stamens and style and an ovary with a short, solid, narrow prolongation at the apex. Inhabiting rock overhangs formed by quartzitic sandstone sheets, both species are close allies of S. scullyi (Baker) Garside from Namaqualand.
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