PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASPARAGALES / AMARYLLIDACEAE / HAEMANTHEAE / HAEMANTHUS / SERENA / PAUCULIFOLIUS
Evergreen bulbous herb, up to 150 mm. Bulb solitary or clustered, ovoidal, more or less exposed above ground, up to 47 mm across, somewhat compressed; outer tunics papery, dark brown; inner tunics fleshy, green when exposed. Leaf mostly solitary except when the new leaf of the current season and the ageing leaf of the previous season overlap for a short period in late autumn; blade recurved, narrowly lanceolate, 70-325 x 25-35 mm, somewhat canaliculate, light green, immaculate, velutinous on both surfaces; margin densely ciliate. Inflorescence adjacent to the adaxial s®rface of the new foliage leaf; scape suberect, 50-190 x 5-7 mm, compressed, lignt green, immaculate, covered wlth white patent hairs, decumbent and elongated in fruit; umbel compact, compressed 15-30 mm wide; spathe valves 4 or 5, erect, closely overlapping for at least half their length, slightly shorter than the flowers, oblong-lanceolate, 25-35 x 5-13 mm, firm but not fleshy, pale green, edged with white proximally, varying from pubescent to smooth abaxially, more or less fringed with retrorse hairs. Flowers 8-19, pure white; pedicels 1-3 mm long; perigone narrowly funnel-shaped, 25-35 mm long, with a narrow tube 10-13 mm long and slighdy spreading lanceolate segments 17-20 x 3-4 mm. Stamens exserted by up to 7 mm; anthers 2.5 mm long and yellow before opening; pollen yellow. Ovary 2-3 mm across, with 1 ovule per locule. Berry spheroidal, 10-15 mm across, orange; seeds fleshy, ovoidal, c. 8 x 10 mm, whitish with a metallic lustre; embryo green. From: Snijman, DA; Van Wyk, AE. 1993. A new species of Haemanthus (Amaryllidaceae) from the eastern Transvaal Escarpment, South Africa. S. African J. Bot. 59: 247-250. [Copyright held by the South African Association of Botanists (1993); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02546299] [CC BY]
Evergreen, bulbous herb, up to 150 mm tall. Leaf mostly solitary; blade velutinous on both surfaces. Umbel compact, compressed, 150-300 mm wide. Flowers 8-19; pedicels 1-3 mm long; perigone narrowly funnel-shaped, 25-35 mm long with a narrow tube, 10-13 mm long; white. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Summer conditions are hot and relatively dry, with somewhat cooler, dry conditions in winter. In the Barberton area only one localized population of a few hundred bulbs has been recorded and in the Blyderivierspoort Nature Reserve dense colonies of several thousand bulbs occur in shade and semi-shade under weakly-developed gallery bush or arid bushveld in the transition between kloof forest and open rock ledges. The soil, which is usually covered by a layer of fallen leaves and humus, is a reddish sandy loam. Species composition in these communities is heterogeneous and includes a succulent component of Aloe sessiliflora Pole Evans, Crassula sp., Euphorbia cooperi N.E. Br. ex Berger, Pachy podium saundersii N.E. Br., Portulacaria afra Jacq. and Sansevieria aethiopica Thunb. From: Snijman, DA; Van Wyk, AE. 1993. A new species of Haemanthus (Amaryllidaceae) from the eastern Transvaal Escarpment, South Africa. S. African J. Bot. 59: 247-250. [Copyright held by the South African Association of Botanists (1993); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02546299] [CC BY]
Shade and semishade, under weakly developed gallery bush or arid bushveld in transition between kloof forest and open rock ledges. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Haemanthus pauculifolius is known with certainty from only two localities on the Transvaal Drakensberg Escarpment: the Blyderivierspoort Nature Reserve (Swadini area) which lies within the rain shadow of the Mariepskop Mountain Complex closely situated to the east; and along the Mvoti highking trail near Barberton. From: Snijman, DA; Van Wyk, AE. 1993. A new species of Haemanthus (Amaryllidaceae) from the eastern Transvaal Escarpment, South Africa. S. African J. Bot. 59: 247-250. [Copyright held by the South African Association of Botanists (1993); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02546299] [CC BY]
May to July
600 to 900 m
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Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Published in: S. African J. Bot. 59(2): 247 (1993)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asparagales
FAMILY Amaryllidaceae
TRIBE Haemantheae
GENUS Haemanthus
SUBGENUS Serena
SPECIES pauculifolius
19 results for Haemanthus pauculifolius Snijman & A.E.van Wyk
Barcode: NBG0147290-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Wyk, AE, 8703 | 1988-7-28
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Barcode: NBG0151848-0 Collector(s) & number: Archer, RH, 1070 | 1992-9-4
General notes: In Aloe arborescens dry open woodland in shade in humus rich loam. Bulbous herb with one hairy leaf. Infructescence with ripe orange berries. Only in small area in large clumps of hundreds of bulbs.
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Barcode: NBG0159069-0 Collector(s) & number: Deall, GB, 4004 | 1997-6-26
General notes: In partial shade on granite rock ledge of steep cliff supporting disturbed thicket. Part of a densely packed population of bulbous plants, each with a solitary leaf. Petals white. Anthers yellow.
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Barcode: NH0123871-0 Collector(s) & number: Crouch, N, 831 | 1999-9-14
General notes: Large colonies of single-leaved plants. Not flowering. Both leaf surfaces pubescent. Plant height: 0.25m. Common. Voucher for chemical analysis, University of Natal, Durban. Closed shrubland. Soil. Partial shade. Slope: moderate.
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Barcode: PRE0590974-0 Collector(s) & number: Jacobsen, NHG, 5515 | 1997-7-3
General notes: Woodland - almost closed canopy. Moderate slope. An erect herbaceous plant with one to two erect leaves per bulb. Bulbs partly above ground. Flowers crowded, and white with yellow anthers. Growing amongst bouldes, highly gregarious forming extensive patches in boulder scree and other similar outcrops. Patchy. Locally common.
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Barcode: NBG0147463-0 Collector(s) & number: Matthews, WS, 625 | 1989-5-31
General notes: In light shade under trees. Rocks. Geophyte. Colour of flower: white.
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Barcode: PRE0809519-0 Collector(s) & number: Archer, RH, 1070 | 1992-9-4
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Barcode: NBG0151847-0 Collector(s) & number: Matthews, WS, 624 | 1989-5-25
General notes: Outer bulb scales dark brown. Leaves light green, scape light green; involucral bracts light green. Flowers pure white, scentless. (Flowers laid out).
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Barcode: NBG0144838-0 Collector(s) & number: Matthews, WS, s.n. | 1988-6-12
General notes: Growing on transition between kloof forest and open rock ledges. In semishade and full sun; in loamy soil covered with humus rich litter. N facing slope of kloof, dry and very hot. A large localised colony. Leaf solitary, bracts green, bulbs greenish.
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Barcode: PRE0835620-0 Collector(s) & number: Matthews, WS, 624 | 1989-5-25
General notes: ISOTYPE. Outer bulb scales dark brown. Leaves light green; involural bracts light green. Flower pure white, scentless.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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1997
SERIES
Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters Retief, E; Herman, PPJStrelitzia 6: 1-681
National Botanical Institute, Pretoria
No results found for Haemanthus pauculifolius Snijman & A.E.van Wyk
Status and criteria
NE
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