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N.R.Crouch &amp; Mart.
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-Azorín,
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:—It resembles
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Deciduous herb.
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solitary, hypogeal to rarely semi-hypogeal, subglobose to ovate-oblong, short-necked,
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length; outer bulb scales fleshy, with residual papery tunic fragments, green to pale beige, with contractile roots.
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solitary, 50170 ×
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, scape
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long, ca
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in diameter, erect, arching, scabridulous at base, flushed purple below, moderately to extensively branched, branches alternate, divaricate, straight or curving, first degree branches
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long, shortening to
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long distally; lowermost bracts lanceolate, 0.61.0 mm long with spur 0.23.0 mm long, present at all nodes and shortening distally, sometimes deciduous; pedicels subpatent, becoming downward curved distally, but apically erect in fruit,
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long in flower.
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tubular, nodding, subglobose at base, slightly constricted around middle, with slightly spreading apices, 5.07.0 × 1.83.0 mm, white with purplish-brown midvein and greenish around base, without discernable odour; tepals 4.56.5 ×
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, shortly connate in basal
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, inner tepals narrowly obovate and narrowed at middle; outer tepals lanceolate, overlapping inners.
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included, adnate to perianth for ca
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long; anthers connivent around style, dorsifixed, introrse, thecae ca 1 ×
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long before dehiscence, longitudinally dehiscent, connective very shortly apiculate.
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, greenish yellow with white septal nectaria; style columnar, tapering along upper third,
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long, longer than ovary, extending well beyond anthers by ca
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subglobose, ca 3.5 ×
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, presented sigmoidally to dehisce vertically, brown.
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ca 45 per locule, hemicircular, irregularly compressed with slightly winged margins, (2.6)2.83.0 × (1.4)1.61.7(2.0) mm, testa glossy black, rugose and comprised of narrowly elongated cells aligned to long axis, cell edges slightly wavy.
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<emphasis id="B930075C4369FF8415BEEC0AFED5F166" bold="true" box="[189,318,1592,1618]" pageId="4" pageNumber="203">Etymology</emphasis>
:—Named after the urgineoid genus
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<emphasis id="B930075C4369FF8417C9EC0AFCDFF166" box="[714,820,1592,1618]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="203">Litanthus</emphasis>
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, given its superficially similar tubular flower morphology and dimensions, and nodding presentation.
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<emphasis id="B930075C4369FF8415BEECB2FEA8F1AE" bold="true" box="[189,323,1664,1690]" pageId="4" pageNumber="203">Phenology:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B930075C4369FF84145CECB2FD9BF1AE" box="[351,624,1664,1690]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="203">Schizobasis litanthiflora</emphasis>
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flowers mainly from July to October in the wild, with occasional flowers to early January concurrently with mature fruits; in cultivation in the Northern Hemisphere (Alicante,
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) between March and May. The flowers last about three days, considerably longer than other
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species
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in which flowers are fugacious and last a single day. Mature fruits are produced from October to January in the wild and observed from April in the Northern Hemisphere.
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<emphasis id="B930075C4369FF8415BEED06FEC8F07A" bold="true" box="[189,291,1844,1870]" pageId="4" pageNumber="203">Habitat:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B930075C4369FF84143CED06FDA6F07A" box="[319,589,1844,1870]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="203">Schizobasis litanthiflora</emphasis>
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occurs in well-drained shallow loamy soils overlying Natal Group Sandstones at the base of shrubs on rocky krantzes, and in rock crevices, on western and northwestern aspects (
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). The savanna vegetation
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within which it has been found is Eastern Valley Bushveld (SVs 6) (
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Rutherford
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2006
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), at an elevation of
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.
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<emphasis id="B930075C4369FF8415BEEDF6FEA4F0EA" bold="true" box="[189,335,1988,2014]" pageId="4" pageNumber="203">Distribution</emphasis>
:—
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<emphasis id="B930075C4369FF841470EDF6FD6DF0EA" box="[371,646,1988,2014]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="203">Schizobasis litanthiflora</emphasis>
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is presently only known from the
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locality at eMabhobhane in the Stanger District, within the valley of the Tugela River, in central
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(
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). Several hundred plants have been observed at the site.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF8515BEEAACFCABF78C" bold="true" box="[189,832,158,184]" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">Diagnostic characters and taxonomic relationships</emphasis>
:—
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF851667EAACFB95F78C" box="[868,1150,158,184]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">Schizobasis litanthiflora</emphasis>
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is unique in the genus in producing nodding tubular flowers, which although seemingly having fused tepals for most of their length, are comprised rather of almost free, erect and overlapping tepals; included stamens; and subglobose ovary with elongated style (
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). All other species in the genus produce spreading tepals that expose the androecium and gynoecium at anthesis (see figs.
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Martínez-Azorín
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2023a
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).
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF8515BEEB60FED0F658" bold="true" box="[189,315,338,364]" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">Discussion</emphasis>
:—In their treatment of the “
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF85178BEB60FCE0F658" box="[648,779,338,364]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">Schizobasis</emphasis>
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group of
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF851683EB61FC3AF658" box="[896,977,339,364]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">Drimia</emphasis>
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”, the inclusion by
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Manning
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(2014)
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of eight morphologically highly diverse species in their concept for
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF85168BEB45FBE0F6A4" box="[904,1035,375,400]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">D. intricata</emphasis>
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inevitably resulted in a very broadly circumscribed taxon concept, for an entity widespread in southern and central Africa. In the sense of Manning and co-workers (2014)
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF851464EB8DFE06F6EC" box="[359,493,447,472]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">D. intricata</emphasis>
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flowers from early through to late summer (November to March in the Southern Hemisphere). The plant figured as
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF851704EBD1FD56F6C8" box="[519,701,483,508]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">Drimia intricata</emphasis>
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by
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Manning
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(2014
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, figure 1) and
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, figure 32) and based on
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der Walt sub J. Deacon 3133
</emphasis>
(NBG), was gathered originally in the Port Elizabeth District of the
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, and represents a far narrower species concept than that detailed in the description provided by these authors.
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In consideration of specimens from
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used to inform their opinion of their concept for
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF851021E841FA4FF5B8" box="[1314,1444,627,652]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">D. intricata</emphasis>
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, none were cited by
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Manning
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(2014)
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for that province, despite their figure 2 showing a distribution at the topacadastral QDS 2831BD within the Nkandla District. This distribution point would appear to roughly correspond with
<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF8515C2E8EDFEA3F5CC" box="[193,328,734,760]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">Venter 3000</emphasis>
(PRE!) cited earlier by
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from near the Old Gold Mine, Babanango.
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also cited a photographic voucher of a plant from Rooikrans above the Bivane (Pivaan) River in Louwsburg District (
<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF851070E931FF2BF474" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">Dyer 5042</emphasis>
, PRE!), from 2731CA. Neither of these vouchers nor
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF851637E914FC5CF474" box="[820,951,806,832]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">Schizobasis</emphasis>
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plants encountered by us at these localities corresponds with the material from eMabhobhane on the Tugela, either vegetatively or sexually. Without explanation, the subsequent revision of
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF8514B7E95DFDEEF4BC" box="[436,517,879,904]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">Drimia</emphasis>
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in southern Africa by
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did not reflect any localities within
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on their distribution map (67) for
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF851609E9A1FC67F498" box="[778,908,915,940]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">D. intricata</emphasis>
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, nor were the PRE vouchers seen by Jessop and ourselves cited by them.
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF85158BEDEEFF1CF0C5" bold="true" box="[136,247,2012,2034]" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">FIGURE 3</emphasis>
. Known geographic distribution range of
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<emphasis id="B930075C4368FF851788EDEEFC9EF0C5" box="[651,885,2012,2033]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="204">Schizobasis litanthiflora</emphasis>
N.R.Crouch &amp; Mart.
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-Azorín (■).
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<emphasis id="B930075C436BFF8615BEEAACFE3BF78C" box="[189,464,158,184]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="205">Schizobasis litanthiflora</emphasis>
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is unusual in the genus for flowering
<emphasis id="B930075C436BFF86168AEAADFC3BF78C" box="[905,976,159,184]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="205">in situ</emphasis>
mainly during late winter through to late spring, much earlier in the season than its summer-flowering sister taxa. Although similar in overall floral
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dimensions the tepals of both
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<emphasis id="B930075C436BFF8614EAEAD4FDB8F634" box="[489,595,230,256]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="205">Litanthus</emphasis>
species
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are connate for three quarters to four fifths of their length into a cylindrical tube (
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), whereas those of
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<emphasis id="B930075C436BFF86178FEB39FCC5F610" box="[652,814,266,293]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="205">S. litanthiflora</emphasis>
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are connate only in their basal fifth and so otherwise free, but are similarly borne as pendulous cylindrical tubes (
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;
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). The strong similarity in overall form of the corolla of
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<emphasis id="B930075C436BFF861425EB61FE21F658" box="[294,458,338,365]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="205">S. litanthiflora</emphasis>
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to that of
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<emphasis id="B930075C436BFF861743EB60FD41F658" box="[576,682,338,364]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="205">Litanthus</emphasis>
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is intriguing, leading one to speculate on the evolutionary pressures that may have brought about such convergence. The notion that the widespread
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<emphasis id="B930075C436BFF861102EB44FB22F6A4" box="[1025,1225,374,400]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="205">Litanthus pusillus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFD5A6BF436BFF8611CCEB45FA40F6A5" author="Harvey, W. H." box="[1231,1451,374,401]" pageId="6" pageNumber="205" pagination="314 - 315" refId="ref4489" refString="Harvey, W. H. (1844) Litanthus, a new genus of Asphodeleae from South Africa. The London Journal of Botany 3: 314 - 315. Available from: https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / item / 6314 # page / 318 / mode / 1 up (accessed 19 November 2024)" type="journal article" year="1844">Harvey (1844: 315)</bibRefCitation>
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and
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<emphasis id="B930075C436BFF8615B4EBA9FEB1F680" box="[183,346,410,437]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="205">S. litanthiflora</emphasis>
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might mutually support a pollination guild at the eMabhobhane locality is not yet substantiated by observations for co-occurrence of
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<emphasis id="B930075C436BFF86170FEB8DFD6AF6EC" box="[524,641,446,472]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="205">L. pusillus</emphasis>
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plants (although this latter species also occurs along the Tugela River). The asynchronous but largely successive phenologies of these two species would enable pollinator rewards to extend across a longer season, given that
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<emphasis id="B930075C436BFF86170DE835FD59F514" box="[526,690,518,545]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="205">S. litanthiflora</emphasis>
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plants flower mainly from July to October, and
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<emphasis id="B930075C436BFF8611D8E835FABBF514" box="[1243,1360,518,544]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="205">L. pusillus</emphasis>
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blooms thereafter between November and March.
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