Aloes and Lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea

Fig. 77.
Chlorophytum
zavattarii, from
Sof Omar, Bale
floristic region.
Description
Habitat and
distribution
and its long, stiff, patent pedicels.
CHLOROPHYTUM 149
Plants 30–60 cm. Rhizome short; roots swollen and thick throughout
their length. Leaves rosu late, broadly lanceolate, more or less
rounded apex, 10–20 × 2.5–5 cm, often with a hyaline margin.
Peduncle 10–25 cm, leafless, but sometimes with one sterile bract
below the inflorescence. Inflorescence a much branched panicle.
Pedicels stiffly patent to semipatent, 1–3 at each node, up to 25 mm
long, articulated near the apex. Tepals patent, 5–6 mm, white with
greenish dorsal stripe, 3­veined. Fruits not seen.
The species grows in open woodland or bushland
dominated by Acacia-Commi phora and/or Combretum
woodland, often in degraded and grazed areas, on red
soils or on rocky limestone, between 1400 and 1700 m,
occurring in the Sidamo and Bale floristic regions. It
also occurs in Somalia and Nor thern Kenya. The main
flowering period is two-peaked, May and October to
November. Fruiting specimens need to be collec ted, as
we have no information on the fruits and the seeds of
this species.