Pauridia sp.

Snijman, Deirdre A., 2014, A taxonomic revision of the genus Pauridia (Hypoxidaceae) in southern Africa, Phytotaxa 182 (1), pp. 1-114 : 109

Pauridia sp.

SOUTH AFRICA. Northern Cape: Groot Pellaberg , southern slopes (QDS: 2919 AA), 3 May 1988 , E.J. van Jaarsveld 9805 ( NBG!).

One small collection by Ernst van Jaarsveld from the Groot Pellaberg, Northern Cape of two partial leaves and inflorescences, probably from a single plant, seems to represent an undescribed species allied to Pauridia scullyi . Like P. scullyi the leaves are thin-textured and the inflorescences have two or three yellow flowers. The filaments, however, are longer than the anthers and the style is about as long as the stigma branches, unlike P. scullyi in which the filaments are shorter than the anthers and the style is at most one third the length of the stigma branches. The plants also appear to flower in May, two months in advance of the spring-flowering P. scullyi . Although the only known seeds are immature, these appear to be covered by blunt, peg-like tubercles that give the testa a spikey appearance. The plants are recorded as common on the upper southern slopes of Groot Pellaberg in Bushmanland, but to date only this single collection is known. Additional material is still needed to adequately assess whether the plant warrants formal description.