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Aloes and Lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea

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Fig. 112.<br />

Gladiolus<br />

roseolus, from<br />

Wellega floristic<br />

region.<br />

Habitat <strong>and</strong><br />

distribution<br />

ZYGOTRITONIA GLADIOLUS 251<br />

12 mm wide in midline, dorsal arched almost horizontally over<br />

stamens, lower 3 tepals lanceolate, curving downward, 20–24 × 4–6<br />

mm, lower laterals smallest. Filaments c. 12 mm long, exserted 4–5<br />

mm from tube; anthers 10­12 mm long, pale yellow. Style arching<br />

over stamens, dividing 2–4 mm beyond apex <strong>of</strong> anthers, branches<br />

4–5 mm long. Capsules narrowly obovoid, 20–25 mm long.<br />

The species grows in Combretum-Termi nalia woodl<strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>and</strong> bamboo thicket, in open woodl<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong>ten on rocky<br />

sites between 1200 <strong>and</strong> 2200 m in Gonder, Gojam,<br />

Shewa, Kefa, <strong>and</strong> Wellega floristic regions. It also occurs<br />

in Togo, Nigeria <strong>and</strong> Cameroon. The main flowering<br />

period in <strong>Ethiopia</strong> is from May to June.

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