Mimetes pauciflorus (lat.) - a species of plants of the genus Mimetes of the Protein family . Evergreen upright sparse shrub with a height of 2-4 m. The leaves are oval, 2.5-4 cm long and 0.75-2 cm wide, located on the upper parts of the branches. On the lower part of the branches a reddish-brown bark, leaves are absent. The flower heads and adjacent leaves form a cylindrical inflorescence topped with ordinary, relatively vertical leaves. The inflorescences at the top of the shoots are cylindrical in shape, 10-40 cm long and consist of 40-120 flower heads tightly adjacent to each other, extending from the stem upward at an acute angle, hiding the comb from small, almost vertical leaves. Each of the flower heads consists of three, rarely four separate flowers. The flowers consist of close-fitting, fleshy, spear-shaped bracts and three orange-yellow bracts 4-5.5 cm long. It grows on moist slopes facing south on the southern coastal mountains of South Africa. It blooms from August to November, with a peak in September. [2]
| Mimetes pauciflorus |
Mimetes pauciflorus |
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| Order : | Proteanae Takht. , 1967 |
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| International scientific name |
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Mimetes pauciflorus R.Br. |
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- Protea pauciflora
- Mimetes rehmanni
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Blooming
Mimetes pauciflorus among
Brunia lanuginosa (
Knysna neighborhood,
Western Cape ).
M. pauciflorus has a relatively wide range. It occurs in a strip 8 km wide along the southern slopes of coastal mountains along the southern coast, between Reutersberg and north of Mosselbay in the Western Cape and slightly beyond Formosa Peak of the Eastern Cape [2] .
It grows in the sand finbosha South Utenikua and Tsitsikamma [3] , very dense and high types of vegetation, together with species such as Brunia lanuginosa , Erica hispidula , Leucadendron conicum , L. eucalyptifolium and Widdringtonia cupressoides . It grows on slopes at an altitude of 450-1400 m, which are wet year-round with annual rainfall of at least 1000 mm. It blooms from August to November with a peak in September. It is assumed that, like other species of the genus, M. pauciflorus is spread by birds and ants [4] .
The species was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 in the book “On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae” and was named Mimetes pauciflorus . His description was based on a sample assembled by an English and Scottish surgeon and botanist William Roxber in South Africa. In 1816, Jean-Louis Poiret united several genera, including Mimetes , and renamed the species Protea pauciflora . Another specimen found at Montague Pass by researchers Michel Gandezhe and Hans Schinz in 1913 was described by them and named M. rehmanni in honor of the Polish researcher and botanist Anthony Reman . In 1984, John Patrick Rourke decided that both samples belong to the same species. [2]
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Rouke, John Patrick. Revision of the genus Mimetes Salisb. (Proteaceae) (Eng.) // South African Journal of Botany . - Elsevier , 1984. - Vol. 50 , no. 2 . - P. 222-226 .
- ↑ Three-flowered Pagoda (Neopr.) . SANBI Red List of South African Plants .
- ↑ Silver pagodas (neopr.) . Protea Atlas Project .
