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Type of Gisekia pentadecaudia E.Mey. [family GISEKIACEAE]

Type of Gisekia pentadecaudia E.Mey. [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Zeyher, #1
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Country South Africa
Herbarium K
Identifications Gisekia pentadecandra E.Mey. [family GISEKIACEAE]
Gisekia africana unrecorded var. africana [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name)
Type of Gisekia pentadecaudia E.Mey. [family GISEKIACEAE]
Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. pedunculata (Oliv.) Brenan [family GISEKIACEAE]

Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. pedunculata (Oliv.) Brenan [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Kirk, J., #s.n.
Collection Date 02-1859
Resource Type Specimens
Herbarium K
Identifications Gisekia miltus Fenzl var. pedunculata (Oliv.) [family GISEKIACEAE]
Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. pedunculata (Oliv.) Brenan [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name)
Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE]; Verified by Illegible
Gisekia pentadecandra E.Mey. [family GISEKIACEAE]; Verified by Burtt Davy, J.
Gisekia unrecorded unrecorded [family GISEKIACEAE]
Type of Gisekia pentadecandra E.Mey. [family GISEKIACEAE]

Type of Gisekia pentadecandra E.Mey. [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Drege, #2
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Country South Africa
Herbarium K
Identifications Gisekia africana unrecorded var. africana [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name)
Type of Gisekia pentadecandra E.Mey. [family GISEKIACEAE]
Type of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. decagyna Hauman [family GISEKIACEAE]

Type of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. decagyna Hauman [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Vanderyst H., #28117
Collection Date 1932-01-01
Resource Type Specimens
Country Angola
Herbarium BR
Identifications Type of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. decagyna Hauman [family GISEKIACEAE]
Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Goncalez?, 1964/07/01
Isotype of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family GISEKIACEAE]

Isotype of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Schlechter, F.R.R., #11631
Collection Date 1897-12-06
Resource Type Specimens
Country Mozambique
Herbarium WAG
Identifications Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name);
Isotype of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family GISEKIACEAE];
Isotype of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family GISEKIACEAE]

Isotype of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Schlechter R., #11631
Collection Date 1897-12-06
Resource Type Specimens
Country Mozambique
Herbarium BR
Identifications Isotype of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family GISEKIACEAE]
Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name)
Type of Gisekia miltus Engl. var. schlechteri [family AIZOACEAE]

Type of Gisekia miltus Engl. var. schlechteri [family AIZOACEAE]

Collector Schlechter,R., #11631
Collection Date 06.12.1897
Resource Type Specimens
Country South Africa
Herbarium BM
Identifications Type of Gisekia miltus Engl. var. schlechteri [family AIZOACEAE]
Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family AIZOACEAE] (stored under name)
Type of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family PHYTOLACCACEAE]

Type of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family PHYTOLACCACEAE]

Collector Schlechter, F.R.R., #11631
Collection Date 1897-12-06
Resource Type Specimens
Country Mozambique
Herbarium S
Identifications Type of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family PHYTOLACCACEAE] (stored under name)
Gisekia miltus Fenzl var. schlechteri Engl. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE]
Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. decagyna Hauman [family PHYTOLACCACEAE]
Isotype of Gisekia miltus Fenzl var. schlechteri Engl. [family GISEKIACEAE]

Isotype of Gisekia miltus Fenzl var. schlechteri Engl. [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Schlechter, F.R.R., #11631
Collection Date 1897-12-06
Resource Type Specimens
Country Mozambique
Herbarium E
Identifications Isotype of Gisekia miltus Fenzl var. schlechteri Engl. [family GISEKIACEAE]
Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name)
GISEKIA africana var. africana [family GISEKIACEAE]

GISEKIA africana var. africana [family GISEKIACEAE]

Entry From Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1961) Author: C. Jeffrey
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range DISTR. K7 widespread in south tropical and South Africa; forms also occur in Ethiopia and Somaliland
Information Inflorescences umbelliform, sessile or subsessile in the axils of foliage leaves.
Filed as Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. africana [family GISEKIACEAE]

Filed as Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. africana [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Van Rooyen, N.;Bredenkamp, G.J., #107
Collection Date 1989-02-05
Resource Type Specimens
Country South Africa
Herbarium PRE
Identifications Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. africana [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name)
Type of Gisekia pentadecandra E.Mey. ex Moq. var. burchellii [family GISEKIACEAE]

Type of Gisekia pentadecandra E.Mey. ex Moq. var. burchellii [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Burchell W.J., #1973
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Country Unknown
Herbarium P
Identifications Gisekia africana Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name)
Type of Gisekia pentadecandra E.Mey. ex Moq. var. burchellii [family GISEKIACEAE]; Verified by Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A.
Isotype of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family AIZOACEAE]

Isotype of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family AIZOACEAE]

Collector Schlechter, FRR, #11631
Collection Date 1897-12-06
Resource Type Specimens
Country Mozambique
Herbarium L
Identifications Gisekia miltus Fenzl var. schlechteri Engl. [family AIZOACEAE] (stored under name)
Isotype of Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. cymosa Adamson [family AIZOACEAE]
GISEKIA africana (Oliv.) Brenan var. pedunculata [family GISEKIACEAE]

GISEKIA africana (Oliv.) Brenan var. pedunculata [family GISEKIACEAE]

Entry From Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1961) Author: C. Jeffrey
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range DISTR. T8; Z widespread in south tropical and South Africa
Information Inflorescences umbelliform to laxly dichasial, pedunculate; peduncles simple or cymosely branched, 15–50 mm. long.
Filed as Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE]

Filed as Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Maurin, O.G.; van der Bank, M., #OM3360
Collection Date 2011-01-27
Resource Type Specimens
Country South Africa
Herbarium BNRH
Identifications Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Burrows, J.E., 2013/04/22
Filed as Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE]

Filed as Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Gossweiler, John, #11026
Collection Date 1937-05-20
Resource Type Specimens
Country Angola
Herbarium COI
Identifications Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Goncalves, Maria L, 1964
Filed as Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE]

Filed as Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE]

Collector Gossweiler, John, #11017
Collection Date 1937-05-20
Resource Type Specimens
Country Angola
Herbarium COI
Identifications Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze [family GISEKIACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Goncalves, Maria L, 1964
GISEKIA pharnaceoides L. [family GISEKIACEAE]

GISEKIA pharnaceoides L. [family GISEKIACEAE]

Entry From Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range N1; C1; S1 Eritrea, Ethiopia, south to South Africa, west to Nigeria, east to Indo-China.
Information Prostrate to ascending ephemeral or short-lived perennial, stems to 0.7 m long. Leaf base attenuate into ill-defined petiole, tip obtuse or subacute. Inflorescences mostly axillary, with at least some, often most, flowers in umbels of 3 or more. Flowers always bisexual. Fruiting pedicels up to 3.5–8 mm long, fairly stout, usually curved. Sepals 1.8–2.6(–3) mm long, whitish, sometimes flushed pink, mauve or yellow. Stamens 5; filaments with wide base. Carpels 5, sculptured forms spiny-papillose or winged.
Gisekia africana Lour. Kuntze [family MOLLUGINACEAE]

Gisekia africana Lour. Kuntze [family MOLLUGINACEAE]

Entry From FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 522, (1978) Author: M. L. Gonçalves
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range Widespread from tropical and southern Africa to Asia.
Information Prostrate to procumbent spreading glabrous herbs, annual or perennial with annual shoots, with several semi-succulent stems often tinged with red up to c. 50 cm. long. Leaf-lamina 5–81 × 1–23 mm., entire, ranging from linear to linear-oblong, oblong, elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, spathulate, obovate or cuneate, the apex retuse, obtuse, rounded or subacute, often apiculate, the margins flat or slightly revolute; petiole 0–5 mm. long. Inflorescences sessile or pedunculate, often numerous, umbelliform to dichasial, often many-flowered. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, pinkish, scentless; pedicels up to c. 16 mm. long. Perianth-segments 5, 2–4 mm. long in fruit, herbaceous, obtuse or subacute, with red or white membranous margins. Stamens (8)10–15(20) with filaments slightly broadened below. Carpels 5 in hermaphrodite flowers, 10–15 in female flowers. Fruit blackish, densely covered with warts.
Gisekia pharnaceoides var. pharnaceoides [family MOLLUGINACEAE]

Gisekia pharnaceoides var. pharnaceoides [family MOLLUGINACEAE]

Entry From FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 522, (1978) Author: M. L. Gonçalves
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range Widespread from tropical Africa, S. Africa and Mascarene Is. to India and Ceylon
Information Prostrate to procumbent semi-succulent glabrous annual herb with stems up to c. 60 cm. long, sometimes pink-tinged. Leaf-lamina 5–68 × 1–14 mm., of various shapes as in G. africana; petiole 0–4 mm. long. Inflorescences sessile or pedunculate, umbelliform, congested to very lax, often many-flowered. Flowers hermaphrodite, pinkish, greenish or yellowish-white, scentless; pedicels up to c. 9 mm. long. Perianth-segments 5, 1–3 mm. long in fruit, herbaceous, obtuse or subacute. Stamens 5 with filaments slightly broadened below. Carpels S. Fruit blackish, densely covered with warts.
GISEKIA africana (Lour.) O. Ktze. [family GISEKIACEAE]

GISEKIA africana (Lour.) O. Ktze. [family GISEKIACEAE]

Entry From Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1961) Author: C. Jeffrey
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Information A semi-succulent glabrous herb. Stems radiating from the crown, procumbent or prostrate, spreading, branching, 10–60 cm. or more in length. Leaves mostly opposite, sessile or obscurely petiolate; blade elliptic, oblanceolate-spathulate, oblanceolate-oblong or oblanceolate, entire, 5–45 mm. long, 1–12 mm. broad, the apex retuse, obtuse, rounded or subacute, often slightly apiculate; petiole 0–5 mm. long. Inflorescences sessile or pedunculate, umbelliform to laxly dichasial, 3–20-flowered. Pedicels 4–20 mm. long. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, pinkish. Sepals 5, herbaceous, 2–3 mm. long in fruit. Stamens 10–15 in male and hermaphrodite flowers, the filaments but slightly broadened below. Carpels 5 in hermaphrodite flowers, 10–15 in female flowers.
GISEKIA africana (Lour.) O. Ktze. [family GISEKIACEAE]

GISEKIA africana (Lour.) O. Ktze. [family GISEKIACEAE]

Entry From Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range S2, 3 widespread in southern Africa.
Information Herb, ± perennial; stems procumbent or prostrate, radiating from taproot, relatively little branched. Leaves sessile or obscurely petiolate, petiole 0–5 mm; blade elliptic to oblanceolate or spathulate, 5–45 x 1–12 mm, base cuneate to tapered, tip retuse to rounded or subacute. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, umbel-like to laxly cymose, sessile or pedunculate, 3–20 flowered; pedicels 4–20 mm. Sepals 2–3 mm long in fruit. Stamens 10–15 in male and bisexual flowers, filaments only slightly widened below. Carpels 5 in bisexual flowers, 10–15 in female flowers.
[family MOLLUGINACEAE]

[family MOLLUGINACEAE]

Entry From FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 522, (1978) Author: M. L. Gonçalves
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range A predominantly S. African family comprising c. 14 genera.
Information Succulent or subsucculent annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs, glabrous or covered with simple or stellate hairs (in Glinus lotoides). Leaves simple, alternate, opposite or verticillate, sometimes crowded, with or without stipules. Inflorescences solitary, cymose, loosely dichasial to umbelliform or glomerate, axillary or terminal. Flowers more or less actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual (in Gisekia africana). Perianth-segments 5, free, imbricate, herbaceous, persistent. Staminodes often present, sometimes petaloid. Stamens 3–?, hypogynous, sometimes in pairs or fascicles, alternate with the perianth-segments when definite in number; filaments often enlarged below; anthers 2-locular, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 2–5-carpellate, apocarpous (in Gisekia) or syncarpous; loculi and stigmas as many as carpels; ovules 1, few or many per loculus; placentation axile or basal. Fruit of achenes, mericarps or loculicidal capsules. Seeds usually subreniform or triangular in outline, sometimes strophiolate; embryo usually curved.

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