Dipcadi longifolium (Lindl.) Baker

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Old Runde bridge, Mwenezi

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Mukuvisi Woodland, Chiraura Stream side

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Synonyms:	Dipcadi anthericoides Engl. & Gilg Dipcadi firmifolium Baker Dipcadi sansibaricum Engl. Dipcadi venenatum Schinz Dipcadi zambesiacum Baker Ornithogalum longifolium (Lindl.) J.C. Manning & Goldblatt Uropetalum longifolium Lindl.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Herb 12–80 cm high, completely hairless, growing from a small ovoid bulb ovoid, 1–3 cm wide, occasionally producing bulbils. Leaves 4–11, linear to linear-lanceolate, up to 50 cm long and 9 mm wide. Peduncle terete, often curved above. Inflorescence laxly flowered and subsecund, overtopping the leaves. Pedicels lengthening in fruit, up to 14 mm long. Flowers green, brownish, yellowish or whitish-green; outer and inner segments equal, linear, c.13 mm long, outer ones recurved from below middle, inner ones broader, slightly spreading. Anthers c.5 mm long; style about as long as ovary. Capsule 3-angled, 5–13 mm long.
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Derivation of specific name:	longifolium: with long leaves.
Habitat:	In seasonally waterlogged places and sometimes as weed of wetland agricultural areas, also on sodic soils.
Altitude range:	Up to 1800 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Widespread in tropical Africa and South Africa.
Malawi distribution:	N,S
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Literature:	Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Page 61. (Includes a picture). 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 126. Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 97. (Includes a picture). 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 91. Moriarty, A. (1975). Wild Flowers of Malawi Purnell & sons Cape Town. Page 29. As Dipcadi sp (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 122. Stedje, B. (1996). Hyacinthaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Page 5.

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