PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASPARAGALES / IRIDACEAE / CROCOIDEAE / IXIEAE / RADINOSIPHON / LOMATENSIS
Plants 300-750 mm high. Corm 8-15 mm diam., producing naked stolons from base; tunics papery, becoming finely fibrous. Stem simple or branched. Leaves 6 to 9, mostly basal and reaching base of spike, narrowly lanceolate, 150-300 x 4-15 mm, cauline leaves ± 3, progressively smaller and entirely sheathing. Spike inclined, 2- to 10-flowered; bracts 10-18 mm long. Flowers pale to deep pink, all or only lower 3 tepals with dark pink median streak; tube (25-)30-45 mm long; tepals ± spreading, linear to lanceolate, 12-15 x 2-3, uppermost lanceolate, 3-7 mm wide. Filaments 6-7 mm long, exserted ± 4 mm from tube; anthers 5-6 mm long, purple. Style dividing opposite or beyond anther tips, branches 2-3 mm long. Capsules subglobose, ± 10 mm long. Seeds up to 8 per locule, 2-3 mm diam. From: Goldblatt, P; Manning, JC. 2020. Iridaceae of southern Africa. Strelitzia 42: 1-1159. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Distinguished from Radinosiphon leptostachya by its larger flowers, with longer perianth tube, (25-)30-45 mm long, broader tepals, the uppermost 12-15 x 3-7 mm, slightly longer filaments 6-7 mm long, and anthers 5-6 mm long. Plants of R. lomatensis reproduce vegetatively by slender, naked stolons quite different from the thick, scaly rhizomes developed in R. leptostachya. The species is evidently outcrossing, producing larger capsules with up to 8 seeds per locule, unlike autogamous R. leptostachya, which produces small capsules, 4-6 mm long, containing just 1 or 2 seeds (rarely up to 5 in tropical Africa) per locule. From: Goldblatt, P; Manning, JC. 2020. Iridaceae of southern Africa. Strelitzia 42: 1-1159. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Quartzite outcrops in montane grassland. From: Goldblatt, P; Manning, JC. 2020. Iridaceae of southern Africa. Strelitzia 42: 1-1159. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
A local endemic restricted to the highlands between Pigg’s Peak in northern Eswatini and the mountains west of Lydenburg. From: Goldblatt, P; Manning, JC. 2020. Iridaceae of southern Africa. Strelitzia 42: 1-1159. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
January to February
From 2000 m and higher
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
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
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asparagales
FAMILY Iridaceae
SUBFAMILY Crocoideae
TRIBE Ixieae
GENUS Radinosiphon
SPECIES lomatensis
20 results for Radinosiphon lomatensis (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br.
Barcode: NBG0176694-0 Collector(s) & number: Burrows, 6684 | 2000-1-26
South Africa, Mpumalanga, Lydenburg. Mokobulaan Plantations.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0855749-0 Collector(s) & number: Burrows, JE, 7284 | 2001-2-17
South Africa, Mpumalanga, Lydenburg Dist.; The Rocks, W of look-out tower, Formosa Mt.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0080926-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 29850 | 1960-2-28
Eswatini, Hhohho, PIGGS PEAK DIST.; DEVILS BRIDGE
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0592776-0 Collector(s) & number: Thorncroft, G, 1065 | 1900-12-
Eswatini, Hhohho, BARBERTON DIST.; LOMATI VALLEY, NEAR BARBERTON.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0679304-0 Collector(s) & number: McMurtry, DM, 1019 | 1974-2-4
South Africa, Mpumalanga, PILGRIMS REST DIST.; NEAR MOUNT SHEBA; MOUNT SHEBA NATURE RESERVE.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0080929-0 Collector(s) & number: Werdermann, E, 2142 | 1959-2-2
South Africa, Mpumalanga, PILGRIMS REST DIST.; LONG TOM PASS, ZWISCHEN SABIE UND LYDENBURG.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0139972-0 Collector(s) & number: Goldblatt, P, 6864 | 1983-1-12
South Africa, Mpumalanga, Lydenburg. Long Tom Pass, at the highest point.
General notes: Among rocks and boulders. Deep pink flowers.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0692067-0 Collector(s) & number: Krynauw, S, 1024 | 1986-2-10
South Africa, Mpumalanga, LYDENBURG DIST.; FROM LYDENBURG TO LONGTOM PASS.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0779009-0 Collector(s) & number: Reid, C, 1747 | 1992-2-15
South Africa, Mpumalanga, Lydenburg Dist.; Lisabon State Forest, at start of descent of Uitsoek Hiking Trail.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0080931-0 Collector(s) & number: Werdermann, E, 2071 | 1959-1-31
South Africa, Mpumalanga, PILGRIMS REST DIST.; LONG TOM PASS; ZWISCHEN LYDENBURG UND SABIE.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0518354-0 Collector(s) & number: Fraser, W, 1 | 1977-1-20
South Africa, Mpumalanga, LYDENBURG DIST.; UITKYK JT 264 FARM.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1481437-0 Collector(s) & number: Turpin, BC, 1735 | 2018-1-28
South Africa, Mpumalanga, Lydenburg district, Mokobulaan Plantations, farm Blyfstaanhoogte 209 JT near 'Crash site'.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0201069-0 Collector(s) & number: Burrows, JE, 7284 | 2001-2-17
South Africa, Mpumalanga, The Rocks, W. of Lookout Tower, Formosa Mountain, Lydenburg district.
General notes: Geophytic herb among rocks in montane grassland. Occasional.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0080916-0 Collector(s) & number: Thorncroft, G, 950 | 1916-3-
South Africa, Mpumalanga, BARBERTON DIST.; SADDLEBACK MT.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0241303-0 Collector(s) & number: Leighton, FM, 3261 | 1955-1-27
South Africa, Mpumalanga, LYDENBURG DIST.; MOUNT ANDERSON.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0080932-0 Collector(s) & number: Thorncroft, G, 1065 | 1900-12-
Eswatini, Hhohho, BARBERTON DIST.; LOMATI VALLEY, NEAR BARBERTON.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0592775-0 Collector(s) & number: Thorncroft, G, 1065 | 1900-12-
Eswatini, Hhohho, BARBERTON DIST.; LOMATI VALLEY, NEAR BARBERTON.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0080930-0 Collector(s) & number: Galpin, EE, 14506 | 1937-2-17
South Africa, Mpumalanga, PILGRIMS REST DIST.; SUMMIT OF PEACH HILL.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2020
SERIES
Iridaceae of southern Africa Goldblatt, P; Manning, JCStrelitzia 42: 1-1159
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
1993
FLORA
Iridaceae Goldblatt, PFlora Zambesiaca 12(4)1-102
Flora Zambesiaca Managing Committee, London
No results found for Radinosiphon lomatensis (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br.
Status and criteria
LC
Assessor(s)
Plantae Coordinator
RLDB
Wells, V. 1949. The Olifants
RLDB
Harrison, A.C. 1938. Fish of the Olifants River, Clanwilliam, south-western Cape Province
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