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Hedbergia abyssinica

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Identification
Isotype of Bartsia abyssinica Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Hedbergia abyssinica (Benth.) Molau [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Bartsia elgonensis
  • Alectra unrecorded
  • Bartsia nyikensis
  • Bartsia petitiana
  • Alectra petitiana
  • Bartsia mannii
  • Hedbergia abyssinica
  • Bartsia abyssinica

Flora

Entry for Hedbergia abyssinica (Benth.) Molau [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2008) Author: S.A. GHAZANFAR, F.N. HEPPER & D. PHILCOX
Names
Hedbergia abyssinica (Benth.) Molau [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Nord. Journ. Bot. 8: 195 (1988); Philcox in F.Z. 8(2): 156 (1990); U.K.W.F.: 262, pl. 113 (1994); Fischer in Fl. Ethiop. & Eritr. 5: 305 (2006). Type: Ethiopia, Mt Scholoda, Schimper I: 356 (K! lecto., chosen by Hedberg et al. 207 (1980) (see under synonomy); BM!, BR, G, HAL, HBG, L, LE, M, MO, OXF, P!, S, W, iso.)
Bartsia abyssinica Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in DC., Prodr. 10: 545 (1846); Engl., Hochgebirgsfl.: 384 (1892); Skan in F.T.A. 4(2): 460 (1906); Hedberg et al. in Bot. Not. 133: 207 (1980); Cribb & Leedal, Mount. Fl. S Tanz.: 117, pl. 28A, B (1982)
Alectra abyssinica (Benth.) A.Rich. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 118 (1851)
Alectra petitiana A.Rich. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 118 (1851). Type: Ethiopia, Ouodgerate, Petit s.n. (P, holo.; K!, iso.)
Bartsia mannii Skan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in F.T.A. 4(2): 459 (1906). Type: Cameroon, Cameroon Mt, Mann 1986 (K!, lecto., chosen by Hedberg et al. 210 (1980); GH, iso.)
Bartsia petitiana (A.Rich.) Skan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in F.T.A. 4(2): 460 (1906)
Bartsia elgonensis R.E. Fries. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Acta Hort. Berg. 8: 67 (1924). Type: Kenya/Uganda, Mt Elgon, Snowden 450 (K!, holo.; BM!, iso.)
Bartsia nyikensis R.E. Fries [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Acta Hort. Berg. 8: 66 (1924). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, McClounie 60 (K!, holo.)
Bartsia abyssinica (R.E. Fries) Hedberg et al. var. nyikensis [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Bot. Not. 133, 211 (1980)
Bartsia abyssinica (A.Rich.) Hedberg et al. var. petitiana [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Bot. Not. 133: 211 (1980)
Information
Perennial suffrutescent herb to 3 m tall; stems several arising from a woody rootstock, erect, ascending or scrambling, much branched especially within inflorescence, rarely almost simple, usually more or less densely pubescent with straight or hooked, patent or retrorse glandular hairs. Leaves sessile or subsessile, thick, rigid, spreading, elliptic to lanceolate, 3–12(–30) mm long, 1–2(–4) mm wide, cuneate or rounded at base, apex acute or obtuse, minutely short-hispid to subglabrous, margins shallowly or deeply serrate or crenate, more or less reflexed. Inflorescence a usually much branched many-flowered raceme; flowers, opposite to subopposite; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Calyx 5–7.5 mm long, shortly hispid; lobes oblong, equal to or slightly shorter than the tube, slightly bilabiate with lobes at times irregularly crenate-dentate. Corolla white to pale pink or at times purple-white to pink or magenta, obliquely campanulate; tube curved, shorter than limb; limb almost equally 5-lobed; style 5.5–7 mm long, minutely pubescent or glabrous. Capsule ovoid to subglobose, (5–)6.5–13 mm long, (4.5–)5–6.5 mm broad, short- to long-pilose. Seeds slightly curved, longitudinally ridged with 6–14 ridges. Fig. 51, p. 196.
Range
DISTR. U 2; K 2–4, 6; T 2, 7
Altitude range
2000–2400 m
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District W of Kipsane Hill, 25 Dec. 1967, Gillett 18454!KENYA Narok District Nasampolai valley, 9 Dec. 1972, Greenway & Kanuri 15065!KENYA Aberdare Mts, W part of Nyeri track, 17 July 1948, Hedberg 1953!TANZANIA Meru District Mt Meru, S side, 23 Apr. 1968, Greenway & Kanuri 13509!TANZANIA Kilimanjaro, 18 Feb. 1934, Schlieben 4802!TANZANIA Rungwe District Kiware R., Lower Fishing Camp, 10 Aug. 1949, Greenway 8403!UGANDA Mt Elgon, Feb. 1955, Hedberg et al. 2101!UGANDA Kigezi District Rubaya, July 1946, Purseglove 2096!
Distribution (external)
Nigeria
Cameroon
Congo-Kinshasa
Sudan
Ethiopia
Zambia
Malawi
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our area. CONSERVATION Least Concern (LC); widespread

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