Ascolepis protea Welw.
var. bellidiflora (Welw.) Lye

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Photo: Nicholas Wightman
In a roadside wetland margin approximately 20 west of Katete town

Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park

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Synonyms:	Ascolepis bellidiflora (Welw.) Cherm.
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Description:	Tufted perennial herb, up to 50 cm high, growing from a slender rhizome, sometimes bulbous at the base. Leaves up to 20 cm long, less than half the length of the culm, pale green. Involucral bracts up to 10 but mostly 5-6, filiform, up to 15 cm long, pale green, often with red glandular dots. Inflorescence subglobose or hemispherical, 10-40 mm in diameter; glumes 4-10 mm long, white or pale yellow. Nutlets obovoid, c. 1 mm long, dark reddish-brown, papillose to densely tuberculate.
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Worldwide distribution:	From Nigeria to Sudan and Ethiopia and South to Angola, Malawi, Mozambique Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 297. Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 122. Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 269 - 271. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 87. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 109.

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