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D. Oosthuizen &amp; K. Balkwill
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Summer growing geophyte reaching 
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high. 
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oblong-ovoid to subglobose, 
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× 
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, tunics brown, produced into a narrow submembranous, flimsy neck 
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long. 
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green sometimes light brownish-maroon above the sheaths, 
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long from the corm to the upper leaf, 
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diam. 
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, with faint parallel veins; apex long attenuate; margin involute to make leaves appear subterete, entire; base broad, sheathing. 
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long, with sheath portion 
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long; upper cauline leaf inserted about three quarters up the stem, 
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long, with sheath portion 
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long. 
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In 
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spicate, 3–8-flowered; peduncle 
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long; rachis 
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long, somewhat stout with flowers spaced (1–) 
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apart. 
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long; tepals 6, each with 3 veins running from the tip to the base; tube white flushed cream without, white within, broadly cylindric, gradually widening upwards, 1.0– 
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long and 2.0– 
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broad at the throat; lobes strongly clawed, diverging, 
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long; claws white flushed cream without, white within; limbs white, sometimes flushed greenish cream without, with a distinct, deep purple, transversely reniform bilobed patch distal to the attachment of the filament, narrowly trullate, 3 × 
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, acute, margins sometimes involute. 
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distinctly raised, distal to point of attachment of filament, 
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long, white proximally; distal face at about 45̊ to the tepal surface and within the purple blotch on the tepal. 
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white, straight, 
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long. 
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golden yellow to brownish yellow with age, dorsifixed, rounded 
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oblong, 0.5 × 
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. 
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ovary light green or sometimes with the outer edges dark purplish red, oblong-elliptic, 
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long; styles 3, cream, conical, subulate, 
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long; stigmas suberect, small, capitate. 
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oblong to oblong-ovoid, 3- angled, 5–6 × 2.0– 
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. 
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ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 
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long, 
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in diam., brown with reticulate surface and with a short obtuse beak at one end. 
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, 
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, 
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C3406531B950B71A9C2FF9E2FBAD0ECC" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BE536BAB950B71A9C2FF9E2FBAD0ECC" blockId="3.[805,1474,1017,1985]" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B950B71A9C2FF9E2FC4C0F5B" box="[836,942,1602,1622]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Etymology:</emphasis>
Named for John Burrows (
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) who first collected the species in 2001. John has been the Managing Trustee of Buffelskloof Private Nature Reserve near Lydenburg in 1988. He started BNRH in 1990 and it now contains 15,000 of his collections and a total of more than 22,000 specimens, making it the largest herbarium in Mpumalanga. He has co-authored several peer reviewed botanical papers on trees, (
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; 
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, 
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), ferns (
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, 
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; 
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), 
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B950B71A9B3DF881FB580E38" box="[1110,1210,1825,1845]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Asparagus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
L. (
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) and ecology (
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) as well as books (
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; 
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). Together with his wife, Sandie, and two colleagues he has compiled a comprehensive book on the trees &amp; shrubs of 
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, which covers about 1800 species (
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C3406531B957B71D9FFAFF3AFD5B08F0" pageId="4" pageNumber="121" type="diagnosis">
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Diagnostic characters: 
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</emphasis>
is similar to 
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B957B71D9DF0FF3AFD1409A3" box="[667,758,154,174]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">W. elatior</emphasis>
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in having a purple bilobed patch on the distal face of the nectary (
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) and the pistils with similar colouring (green with a purplish tinge). It differs from 
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in being nearly a quarter its size. The leaves of 
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are nearly double the length of those of 
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and the former carries two leaves from a basal sheath whereas 
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has an additional middle leaf instead of only a basal and an upper leaf. The flowers of 
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are smaller than those of 
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</taxonomicName>
and the spike also carries half the number of flowers of 
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</taxonomicName>
. 
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is taller (
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) than 
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(
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) and has a solitary basal leaf compared to the one or two of 
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.
</emphasis>
The limbs of the tepals of 
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can be twice as wide as those of 
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and the filaments twice as long.
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B957B71D9FFAFDA5FE8D0B14" box="[145,367,517,537]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Distribution and habitat:</emphasis>
So far this species has only been collected on and in the vicinity of Mount Anderson near Mashishing (
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), which is part of the Drakensberg Escarpment and Wolkberg 
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of Plant Endemism (
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). It grows in Lydenburg Montane Grassland (Gm 18) (
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) in well drained to damp, humus rich sandy soils exposed to full sun, at altitudes of 
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(
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B957B71D9FFAFD68FF170BD1" box="[145,245,712,732]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Phenology:</emphasis>
All flowering specimens have been collected in February, but it is likely that flowering continues into March.
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Conservation notes: 
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is known from two localities close to each other and with an extent of occurrence and area of occupancy in the region of 
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is a small plant that is dispersed but frequent in both moist and mesic grassland at these localities, so there are likely to be at least hundreds of individuals. On the basis of the limited extent of occurrence and area of occupancy, a provisional threat status of Vulnerable D2 is assigned (
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B957B71D9C57FF3AFBAC09A3" box="[828,1102,154,174]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">3.3. Additional specimens seen</emphasis>
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: Mashishing district, Mount Anderson Nature Reserve, Mount Prospect 159JT, 
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Oosthuizen &amp; 
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