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D. Oosthuizen &amp; K. Balkwill
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Type:
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,
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(2530):
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east of
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, De Berg mountain, in
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near junction of R577 and D238+,
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(–AA),
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2463
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(
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,
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.;
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,
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,
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Summer growing geophyte up to
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high when in bloom and
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when in fruit.
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oblong ovoid,
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×
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. with brown tunics, produced into a narrow submembraneous flimsy neck,
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long.
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green sometimes light brownish red just above the tunics,
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long from the corm to the upper leaf, 1.0–
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in diam.
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green, alternating up the stem.
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solitary, usually erect and somewhat flexuous, green, narrowly linear, 100–300 ×
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, indistinctly many-veined; apex long attenuate; margin mostly involute to make leaves appear subterete, sometimes flat, entire; base broad, sheathing.
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2, usually erect and somewhat flexuous, indistinctly many-veined; apex attenuate; margin involute to make leaves appear subterete, entire; lower cauline leaf inserted about the middle of the stem,
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long, with sheath portion
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long; upper cauline leaf inserted
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below the flowering spike and up to
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below the fruiting spike,
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long with sheathing portion
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long.
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In
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orescence
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spicate, 3–10-flowered;
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B957B71D9B4CFC07FB980AB6" box="[1063,1146,935,955]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">peduncle</emphasis>
<quantity id="4CA29B5FB957B71D9BEBFC08FB080AB1" box="[1152,1258,936,956]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.5" metricValueMax="4.0" metricValueMin="1.0" pageId="4" pageNumber="121" unit="mm" value="25.0" valueMax="40.0" valueMin="10.0">10–40 mm</quantity>
long in bloom and up to
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long in fruit; rachis
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long in bloom and up to
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long in fruit, somewhat stout with flowers spaced
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apart and fruit up to
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apart, the indeterminate axis often somewhat flexuous and zig-zag in fruit.
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:
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5
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6 mm
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long; tepals 6, stellately spreading, each with 3 veins running from the tip to the base; tube greenish-cream without, cream within, broadly cylindrical gradually widening upwards, 1–2 × 1.5–3.0 mm broad; lobes strongly clawed, diverging,
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long; claws cream flushed light greenish cream without, cream within; limbs cream sometimes flushed light greenish cream, margins sometimes involute.
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9EACFEE2FDF2085B" box="[455,528,322,342]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Nectary</emphasis>
a distinctly raised area largely distal to the point of attachment of the filament, with a gradually declining distal face and a central,
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long, parallel-sided groove in which the filament rests, the inner faces of the proximal ends of the groove touch the filament, indistinctly lighter cream.
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9D37FE11FD5708C8" box="[604,693,433,453]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Filaments</emphasis>
white, straight, free section about
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long; anthers violet brown on young flowers turning golden yellow to brownish yellow on older ones, dorsifixed near the base, rounded-oblong; thecae 0.6 ×
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.
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ovary green, rarely with a purple tinge, oblong-elliptic,
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long; styles 3, light creamish-green, conical, subulate,
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long; stigmas suberect to erect, small, capitate.
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oblong to oblong-ovoid, 3- angled, 8–15 ×
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, about twice as long as perianth remains.
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9F31FD30FF6C0BA9" box="[90,142,656,676]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Seeds</emphasis>
rhomboid with rounded corners, 0.7 ×
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, slightly compressed, brown with a finely reticulate and shiny surface.
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,
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B957B71D9EEDF814FE560ECF" bold="true" box="[390,436,1972,1986]" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Fig. 4.</emphasis>
Map of Mpumalanga, showing known sites for
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B957B71D9C70F813FC4F0ECF" box="[795,941,1971,1986]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Wurmbea burrowsii</emphasis>
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●,
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<taxonomicName id="4C5A4D39B957B71D9CA3F813FBE40ECF" box="[968,1030,1971,1986]" class="Liliopsida" family="Colchicaceae" genus="Wurmbea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Liliales" pageId="4" pageNumber="121" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="viridi">W. viridi</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B957B71D9B6DF813FBED0ECF" bold="true" box="[1030,1039,1971,1986]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">fl</emphasis>
ora
</emphasis>
■ and
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B957B71D9B35F813FB4C0ECF" box="[1118,1198,1971,1986]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">W. kraussii</emphasis>
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▲.
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<subSubSection id="C3406531B956B71C9F11FD68FEAE0BF5" pageId="5" pageNumber="122" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9F11FD68FF010BD1" box="[122,227,712,732]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Etymology:</emphasis>
The epithet viridiflora refers to the greenish cream flowers without blotches.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C3406531B956B71C9F11FCA0FD7F0DBB" pageId="5" pageNumber="122" type="diagnosis">
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Diagnostic characters:
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9EB0FCA1FE050A19" bold="true" box="[475,487,769,788]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">fl</emphasis>
ora
</emphasis>
is similar to
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9DEAFCA0FD1A0A19" box="[641,760,768,788]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">W. burrowsii</emphasis>
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and especially
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<taxonomicName id="4C5A4D39B956B71C9F91FCBCFE700A3D" box="[250,402,796,816]" class="Liliopsida" family="Colchicaceae" genus="Wurmbea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Liliales" pageId="5" pageNumber="122" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="angustifolia">W. angustifolia</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
but differs from both and from
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9F31FC98FF550A41" box="[90,183,824,844]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">W. elatior</emphasis>
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in that the flowers are uniformly greenish-cream (
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) and do not have the purple bilobed patch distal to the filament on the tepals. Neither
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9F81FCCFFE800A8E" box="[234,354,879,899]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">
<taxonomicName id="4C5A4D39B956B71C9F81FCCFFEDA0A8E" box="[234,312,879,899]" class="Liliopsida" family="Colchicaceae" genus="Wurmbea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Liliales" pageId="5" pageNumber="122" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="viridi">W. viridi</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9E53FCD0FEA60A8E" bold="true" box="[312,324,880,899]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">fl</emphasis>
ora
</emphasis>
nor
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9EE4FCCFFDE70A8E" box="[399,517,879,899]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">W. burrowsii</emphasis>
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have the numerous minute dots or bigger rounded oblong flecks that are usually present on the tepals of
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9FB9FC07FEBB0AB6" box="[210,345,935,955]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">W. angustifolia</emphasis>
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. The tepals of
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<taxonomicName id="4C5A4D39B956B71C9EB5FC07FDC90AB6" box="[478,555,935,955]" class="Liliopsida" family="Colchicaceae" genus="Wurmbea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Liliales" pageId="5" pageNumber="122" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="viridi">W. viridi</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9D40FC08FDD50AB6" bold="true" box="[555,567,936,955]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">fl</emphasis>
ora
</emphasis>
and
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9DE8FC07FD150AB6" box="[643,759,935,955]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">W. burrowsii</emphasis>
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have more prominent claws than those of
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9E8DFC63FD8C0ADA" box="[486,622,963,983]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">W. angustifolia</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9DF0FC63FD100ADA" box="[667,754,963,983]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">W. elatior</emphasis>
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.
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9F31FC7FFEFE0AFE" box="[90,284,991,1011]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9F9AFC40FF1F0AFE" bold="true" box="[241,253,992,1011]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">fl</emphasis>
ora
</emphasis>
is similar to
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9EC9FC7FFDD30AFE" box="[418,561,991,1011]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">W. angustifolia</emphasis>
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in stem height, the length of the leaves and number of flowers on the spikes, but the internodal distances between flowers is shorter in
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9D68FBB7FD9B0D26" box="[515,633,1047,1067]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9D24FBB8FDB90D26" bold="true" box="[591,603,1048,1067]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">fl</emphasis>
ora
</emphasis>
and the pistil of
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9FD5FB94FF280D4A" bold="true" box="[190,202,1076,1095]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">fl</emphasis>
ora
</emphasis>
is nearly twice as long as that of
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<taxonomicName id="4C5A4D39B956B71C9D76FB93FD450D4A" box="[541,679,1075,1095]" class="Liliopsida" family="Colchicaceae" genus="Wurmbea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Liliales" pageId="5" pageNumber="122" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="angustifolia">W. angustifolia</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
In addition,
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<taxonomicName id="4C5A4D39B956B71C9FE1FBEFFF3B0D6E" box="[138,217,1103,1123]" class="Liliopsida" family="Colchicaceae" genus="Wurmbea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Liliales" pageId="5" pageNumber="122" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="viridi">W. viridi</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9FB2FBF0FF070D6E" bold="true" box="[217,229,1104,1123]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">fl</emphasis>
ora
</emphasis>
has a nectary with a central groove that touches the filament at the base and has a smooth surface, rather than a nectary with a central pocket that is separated from the filament at the proximal end and has a minutely papillate surface as in
<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9D64FB02FD7F0DBB" box="[527,669,1186,1206]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">
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.
</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9F11FB1EFEA90DDF" box="[122,331,1214,1234]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Distribution &amp; ecology:</emphasis>
This taxon is currently known from only two localities in the Steenkampsberg, about
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east of Roossenekal (
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). The vegetation
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is Lydenburg Montane Grassland (Gm 18) (
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), where
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ora
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grows in seasonal wetlands or seeps with either sandy soil over a sandstone substrate or humus rich loam at
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(
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). It shares these habitats with mosses, sedges and moisture-loving grasses.
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9F11FA21FF3D0C98" box="[122,223,1409,1429]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Phenology:</emphasis>
Flowering specimens have been collected from January through to March.
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9F11FA19FEC90CC0" box="[122,299,1465,1485]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Conservation notes:</emphasis>
The two localities are about
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apart, giving an area of occupancy and an extent of occurrence of less than
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. We estimate the populations to comprise about 400 plants. Additional surveys are required to establish if these are the only populations or whether the species occurs in the nearby Verloren Vallei Nature Reserve that is at slightly lower altitude. At one locality there is encroachment by
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9DD7F9E5FF480F78" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Acacia mearnsii</emphasis>
De Wild
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(black wattle) and cattle are free to graze the other. We thus propose a provisional threat status of Vulnerable D1, 2 (
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).
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<emphasis id="B92EEAA8B956B71C9F31F94CFE8E0E0D" box="[90,364,1772,1792]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">3.4. Additional specimens seen</emphasis>
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.
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:
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Mashishing District, Steenkampsberg, on turnoff to Nederhorst, near the junction of R577 and D238+ roads,
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(
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AA),
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,
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(E,
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); On the farm De Berg 71JT,
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(
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AA),
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,
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(BMLH,
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);
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(
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).
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