Protea dracomontana
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Details Top
| Internal ID | UUID64404c3b147cd896620150 |
| Scientific name | Protea dracomontana |
| Authority | Beard |
| First published in | Bothalia 7: 53 (1958) |
Description Top
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Protea dracomontana, commonly known as the Nyanga protea or Drakensberg sugarbush, is a flowering plant belonging to the genus Protea. It is found in the Eastern Cape, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State, and eastern Zimbabwe. It is a shrub which has numerous stems and grows up to 1.5 metres high, often less. The plant blooms mainly from January to March and is monoecious with both sexes in each flower. It is primarily distinguished from similar species by having shorter inflorescences and a short, squat, bushy habitus. It can re-sprout again after wildfires from a bole-shaped rootstock and is pollinated by birds and insects. It grows in alpine grasslands and among rocks at heights of 1,600 m to 2,200 metres in South Africa, and peaty tussock grassland at 2,300 to 2,400 metres altitude in Zimbabwe. It is not in danger of extinction, although it has declined somewhat in the Drakensberg foothills due to habitat loss.
Synonyms Top
| Scientific name | Authority | First published in |
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| Protea inyanganiensis | Beard | Kirkia 3: 183 (1963) |
Common names Top
Add a new one! Suggest a correction!| Language | Common/alternative name |
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| English | drakensberg sugarbush |
| Afrikaans | drakensbergsuikerbos |
Germination/Propagation Top
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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top
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- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
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South Tropical Africa
- Zimbabwe
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Southern Africa
- Free State
- Kwazulu-Natal
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South Tropical Africa
Links to other databases Top
Suggest others/fix!| Database | ID/link to page |
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| World Flora Online | wfo-0001106759 |
| Tropicos | 26500443 |
| KEW | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:705766-1 |
| The Plant List | tro-26500443 |
| Open Tree Of Life | 491847 |
| Observations.org | 764317 |
| NCBI Taxonomy | 273574 |
| IUCN Red List | 113209593 |
| IPNI | 705766-1 |
| iNaturalist | 592512 |
| GBIF | 5637864 |
| Elurikkus | 560965 |
| Wikipedia | Protea_dracomontana |
Genomes (via NCBI) Top
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Scientific Literature Top
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| Two new Ophiostoma species from Protea caffra in Zambia | Roets F, Wingfield BD, de Beer ZW, Wingfield MJ, Dreyer LL | Persoonia | 02-Feb-2010 |
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| Multi-gene phylogeny for Ophiostoma spp. reveals two new species from Protea infructescences | Roets F, de Beer ZW, Dreyer LL, Zipfel R, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ | Stud Mycol | 01-Jan-2006 |
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| In private collections | 0 |
| In public collections | 0 |