Cyphia brachyandra Thulin

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Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park

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Description:	Slender twining herb, with stems up to 2 m long, from a subglobose or elongated tuberous root, up to 3 cm long. Leaves linear to ovate, 35–85 mm long, hairless; venation prominent beneath; margin serrate or crenate; petiole up to 12 mm long, often curved. Inflorescences c. 20–30–flowered in lax racemes, up to 100 cm long; pedicels 3–13 mm long, shortly crisped pubescent; bracts more or less leaf–like, becoming smaller upwards; bracteoles 1–2 mm long. Calyx–lobes narrowly triangular, 2·4–4 mm long, with 1–3 pairs of teeth at the margin, hairless or sparsely ciliate, more or less erect or spreading, becoming reflexed in fruit, Corolla 9–12 mm long, pale pink, pale purple or mauve, split to the base into 2 lips, the upper 3–lobed, lower divided into 2 free petals; all petals linear, hairless outside, pubescent inside at the base. Capsule ovoid, 5-7.5 mm long with 10 distinct veins.
Type location:	Tanzania
Notes:	This taxon has been provisionally added for DRC because of its Inclusion by Thulin in Flore d'Afrique Centrale (1985). As this species is considered a near-endemic in northern Malawi and southern Tanzania, it is likely the population in DRC concerns a different taxon.
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Worldwide distribution:	Only known from southern Tanzania and northern Malawi.
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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 196. Thulin, M. (1983). Lobeliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Page 154. Thulin, M. (1985). Lobeliaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium Pages 57 - 58.

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