Aloes and Lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea

268 HYPOXIDACEAE
Fig. 117. Hypoxis
fischeri, from
Wellega floristic
region.
Hypoxis fischeri
7. Hypoxis fischeri Pax
The species was described on material from the Lake
region of East Africa by Pax in 1893, in honour of the
collector, Fischer. This taxon might include more than one
apomictic form from Wellega floristic region. One form
is many-flowered (up to 8 in a racemose inflorescence),
has leaves together with the flowers and is covered by
a dense yellowish indumentum; lower pedi cels up to
2 cm and tepals c. 10 mm long. It comes close to the
type of H. multiflora, described from Uganda which was
sunk into H. fischeri in the Flora of tropical East Africa
(Wiland­Szymanska & Nordal 2006). Another form has
flowers appearing before the leaves and almost silvery
indumentum, spi cate inflorescence with 10–15 flowers,
and tepals up to 15 mm long. This form matches the type
of H. fischeri Pax. More field studies are required to sort
out the taxonomic problems.