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    * *Monadenium hirsutum P.R.O. Bally [family EUPHORBIACEAE]*, in
      Candollea 17: 27 (1959); Gen. Mon.: 86 (1961). Type: Zambia,
      Kundabwika Falls, fl. & fr. v.1931, E.G. Walter 1 (K, holotype).

Information	Geophyte, up to 25 cm high, with a tuberous root c. 4 × 3.5
cm.Stem with scattered, slender hairs.Leaves subsessile, to 8 × 1 cm,
lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, margins crisped, midrib prominent
below, both surfaces densely covered with filamentous hairs to 1 mm
long; stipules glandular, minute.Cymes terminal and axillary,
3–5-forked; peduncles to 7 cm long; cyme branches to 1 cm long; bracts
joined to form a bract-cup up to 8.5 × 10 mm, shortly notched with
rounded lobes, midribs prominent, margins undulate, enveloping the
involucre.Cyathia c. 4 × 4 mm, with cup-shaped involucres; glandular rim
1 mm high, white with a red margin; lobes c. 1 × 1 mm, denticulate.Male
flowers: bracteoles few, 2 mm long; stamens 3.5 mm long.Female flower:
styles 2 mm long, joined to halfway and deeply bifid at the apex.Capsule
c. 4.5 × 4 mm, 3-lobed, with minute fleshy ridges along the sutures,
exserted on a pedicel c. 4 mm long.Seeds c. 2.5 × 1.4 mm, oblong,
4-angled, densely and very minutely verrucose, pale brown; caruncle
cap-like, 1 mm in diameter, shortly stipitate.
Range	Not known elsewhere
Altitude range	900–1035 m.
Habitat	
On rocks and amongst short grasses in woodland
Distribution	*Zambia* /N/: Kaputa Distr., Mweru Wantipa, on road to
Kanjiri (Kangiri), fl. & fr. 6.iv.1957, Richards 9060 (K; LISC); Yendwe
(Iyendwe) Valley, Lufubu R., fl. & fr. 12.iv.1967, Richards 22204 (K).
Notes	Bally erroneously located Kundabwika Falls as lying east of
Lusaka.Burtt 6434 and Richards 5293 cited by him in “The Genus
Monadenium” are specimens of M. parviflorum.


 	
