Alchemilla ellenbeckii
nyikensis
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Manyenezi Forest, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Manyenezi Forest, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Manyenezi Forest, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Manyenezi Forest, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Manyenezi Forest, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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| Synonyms: |
Alchemilla nyikensis De Wild. |
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| Description: |
Creeping and scrambling perennial herb without basal rosette. Stems slender, green, becoming brownish-green to purple-red, densely hairy to hairless. Leaves kidney-shaped to almost circular in outline, 1·2–3 cm wide, shallowly (3)5-lobed, densely hairy to hairless, paler beneath; central lobe with 9–11 shallow teeth, the latter usually with revolute margins; basal sinus very wide; petioles 0·5–1·8 cm. Inflorescences 4–10 cm long, slender, little-branched, hairy; flowers clustered 1–3 together. Calyx hairy; epicalyx-lobes 0·5–0·7 mm long; calyx-lobes 0·7–1·0 mm long, exceeding epicalyx-lobes. |
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Malawi |
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| Derivation of specific name: | nyikensis: of the Nyika Plateau,where the type for this subspecies was collected. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. |
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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 234. (Includes a picture). Mendes, E.J. (1978). Rosaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 30 - 31. (Includes a picture). Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 217. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 86. as Alchemilla ellenbeckii |
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