Asclepias grandirandii Goyder

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Habit
Large flat open sandy dambo grassland
Mangi, Lualaba Province
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Leaves
Large flat open sandy dambo grassland
Mangi, Lualaba Province
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Inflorescence
Large flat open sandy dambo grassland
Mangi, Lualaba Province
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flowers
Large flat open sandy dambo grassland
Mangi, Lualaba Province
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb with one to many annual stems arising from a vertical napiform tuber; stems 10–30 cm long, simple or branched below, prostrate to ascending or erect, green, conspicuously pubescent with spreading white hairs. Leaves subsessile; lamina 3–5 × 0.5–2 cm, oblong, triangular-oblong or elliptic, apex acute, base rounded, truncate or weakly cordate, with sparse indumentum of spreading white hairs especially on the margins and midrib. Inflorescences extra-axillary forming umbels of 3–5 erect flowers; peduncles 1–3 cm long, densely pubescent; bracts filiform, pubescent; pedicels 1–2 cm long, densely pubescent. Sepals 3–6 × 0.5–2 mm, linear, lanceolate or narrowly triangular, acute, densely spreading-pubescent. Corolla partially reflexed, lobes 5–8 × 3–4 mm, oblong to broadly ovate, acute, adaxial surface greenish white, glabrous, abaxial face green tinged brown or purple, spreading-pubescent with white hairs. Corona lobes arising at the base of the staminal column, 5–7 mm long, ± cucullate basally with upper margins reaching top of column, the mid-line drawn out into a long-attenuate tip, acute or rounded apically, off-white with a reddish fleshy midline, or the entire lobe mottled red, cavity and mid-line of lobe papillose. Anther wings (1.4)1.5–2 mm long. Stylar head ± flat. Follicles (immature) 6 cm long, erect, fusiform, densely pubescent; seeds not seen.
Type location:	Malawi
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	grandirandii: bigger or larger than [Asclepias] randii, a very similar but smaller species that also grows in similar habitats..
Habitat:	Seasonally burned grassland and woodland.
Altitude range: (metres)	1400 - 2200 m
Flowering time:	Oct - Nov
Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia
National distribution:	N
Growth form(s):	Perennial.
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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 70. as Asclepias sp. Richards 57 Goyder, D.J. (2009). A synopsis of Asclepias (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) in tropical Africa Kew Bulletin 64 Pages 393 - 395. Protologue (Includes a picture). Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Page 275.

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