Tecomaria capensis (Oliv.) Brummitt subsp. nyassae [family BIGNONIACEAE]

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, (2006) Author: SALLY BIDGOOD, BERNARD VERDCOURT & KAJ VOLLESEN
Names
Tecomaria capensis (Oliv.) Brummitt subsp. nyassae [family BIGNONIACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 44: 421 (1974); Liben, F.A.C., Bignon.: 11, t. 2.C–D & t. 3 (1977); Diniz in F.Z. 8(3): 66, t.10 (1988) & C.F.A. 122, Bignon.: 13, t.1 (1993). Type: Tanzania, “lower plateau N of Lake Nyassa”, Thomson s.n. (K!, holo.!)
Tecoma nyassae Oliv. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Hook. Ic. Pl. 14: t. 1351 (1881); Gentry, Fl. Neotropica, 25(2): 282 (1992)
Tecoma shirensis Bak. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in K.B. 1894: 30 (1894). Type: Malawi, Shire Highlands, Buchanan 219 (K!, lecto.; BM, isolecto., chosen by Brummitt)
Tecomaria nyassae (Oliv.) K.Schum. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in E. & P., Pf. 4 (3B): 230 (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 4(2): 515 (1906); T.T.C.L.: 73 (1949); Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9: 18 (1954)
Tecomaria shirensis (Bak.) K.Schum. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 36 (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 4. (2): 515 (1906); T.T.C.L.: 73 (1949)
Tecoma whytei C.H.Wright [family BIGNONIACEAE], in K.B. 1897: 275 (1897). Type: Malawi, Zomba Plateau, Whyte s.n. (K!, holo.)
Tecoma nyikensis Bak. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in K.B. 1898: 159 (1898). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, Whyte 112 (K!, holo.)
Tecomaria rupium Bullock [family BIGNONIACEAE], in K.B. 1931: 274 (1931); T.T.C.L.: 73 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Dodoma District, N Mpwapwa, Greenway 2425 (K!, holo.; EA!, iso.)
Information
Shrub or small tree to 7(–10) m tall. Leaflets in (3–)4–5(–6) pairs and often larger than in typical subspecies. Calyx (8–)10–18(–23) mm long with lobes 3–6 mm long or more. Corolla red or orange.
Range
DISTR. T 3–8
Altitude range
(1200–)1350–2750 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Lushoto District Lushoto, 1 Sept. 1912, Semsei 3519!TANZANIA Iringa District about 192 km S of Iringa, just S of Sao Hill, 27 July 1959, Verdcourt 2338!TANZANIA Songea District Matengo Hills, Lupembe Hill, 27 May 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 10530!
Distribution (external)
Congo-Kinshasa
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Notes
Gentry retains T. nyassae and T. capensis as separate species stating they are easily distinguishable vegetatively. Although this is often so with the latter having leaflets with more obvious more rounded teeth, examination of hundreds of specimens shows this is not a constant character. T. capensis (Thunb.) Spach subsp. capensis ,‘Cape Honeysuckle’, is widely cultivated in East Africa and throughout the Tropics. Apart from the normal orange or red-flowered plant a pure yellow variety occurs in East Africa which has not been reported from anywhere else save on a determination label by Sandwith mentioning “a similar form is in cultivation in a garden on the French Riviera”. It has been given a name for the convenience of horticulturalists*. Var. capensis is widely cultivated e.g. Uganda, Mengo District, Makerere University Botany Garden, 5 May 1971, Lye 6029!; Kenya, Nakuru District: Njoro, Plant Breeding Station, 20 June 1976, Gitonga 115!; Kiambu District: Muguga, Hort. Greenway, 10 Feb. 1963, Greenway 10866!; & Karen, Hort. Gardner, 12. Nov. 1965, Gardner in EA 13398!; Tanzania, Lushoto District: Lushoto Township, 8 Dec. 1959, Willan 470 & Boma road, 13 Oct. 1970, Mshana 124 & Mang’ula, near Pentecoste Church, 7 Apr. 1982, Kisena & Mtui 12. Var. flava has been seen mostly from around Nairobi: Mar. 1953, Verdcourt 918; Nairobi Arboretum, 27 Apr. 1953, G.R. Williams 541 & Nairobi, Closeburn Nursery, 6 May 1953, Greenway 8770; Tanzania, Lushoto Hotel, Shabani 925.The plant is not listed in Grahame Bell’s Closeburn Catalogue (1949) so must have appeared in Nairobi in the early 1950s whether a local mutant or brought in from elsewhere is not known. Subsp. nyassae has also been cultivated but much less frequently. Kenya, Nairobi, Scott Agricultural Labs., Mar. 1960, Verdcourt 2624 (peculiar fasciated form) & Kiambu District, Muguga, Hort Greenway 13 Feb. 1963, Greenway 10867 &K3 (? District) Kaptel (not traced), 29 Oct. 1985, Ekkens 324. Tanzania, Lushoto Arboretum, 25 Aug. 1971, Issa 96.
Tecomaria capensis (Oliv.) Brummitt subsp. nyassae [family BIGNONIACEAE]
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