Protea mafingensis (Chisumpa & Brummitt) Beard

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Protea

Characteristics

Middle bracts 2–3 × 1.3–2 cm, rounded, appressed-pubescent when young and rapidly glabrescent or apparently sometimes glabrous from the start; inner bracts 4–6 × 0.5–1.2 cm, linear-oblong, about equalling the flower.
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Perianth base glabrous; claw glabrous except for short pubescence at margin near base inside; limb 15–20 mm long, with rusty-brown hairs near tip and occasionally lower down when young, usually rapidly glabrescent.
Leaves 6–10(12) × (2.2)2.5–4(4.5) cm, mostly 2–3 times as long as broad, broadly elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, rounded to cuneate at the base, leathery, glabrous, sometimes shiny.
Young stems glabrous or slightly pubescent in parts, smooth and often shiny, later developing fissures and flaking off.
Round-topped, widely branched bushy tree up to 7 m high with trunk up to 40 cm thick.
Flowers 5–6 cm long, creamy-white.
Heads 8–12 cm diameter.
Style glabrous.
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Mature height (meter) 7.0
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Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
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Distribution

Protea mafingensis world distribution map, present in Malawi and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:971416-1
WFO ID wfo-0000484722
COL ID 77YRN
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Synonyms

Protea caffra subsp. mafingensis Protea mafingensis