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Patersonia borneensis
Patersonia borneensis is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Borneo. It is a tufted perennial with many leaves and pale lavender to bluish-purple tepals on a flowering stem shorter than the leaves.
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Description
Patersonia borneensis is a tufted, rhizome-forming perennial that typically grows to a height of 350–600 mm (14–24 in) and has many sword-shaped leaves 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) wide. The flowering stem is shorter than the leaves, oval in cross-section, 420–550 mm (17–22 in) long and about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) in diameter with the sheath enclosing the flowers 36–55 mm (1.4–2.2 in) long. The outer tepals are pale lavender to bluish purple, egg-shaped and about 15 mm (0.59 in) long, and the hypanthium tube is about 25 mm (0.98 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from December to April.
Range & habitat
This patersonia is restricted to the Mount Kinabalu massif in Sabah, Malaysia where it grows at altitudes between 2,200 and 2,750 m (7,220 and 9,020 ft).
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1071876.