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Acalypha bequaertii

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Name

Identification
Acalypha bequaertii Staner [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Acalypha psilostachya Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Radcliffe-Smith A., 1983
Related name
  • Acalypha psilostachya
  • Acalypha bequaertii

Flora

Entry for Acalypha psilostachya var. glandulosa Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Acalypha psilostachya var. glandulosa Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in F.T.A. 6, 1: 900 (1912). —Pax in Engler, Pflanzenr. [IV, fam. 147, xvi] 85: 134 (1924) (erroneously cited as forma glandulosa). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 198 (1949). —Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 2: 198 (1983). —Radcliffe-Smith in F.T.E.A., Euphorb. 1: 204 (1987). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, 1200–1850 m, 1896, Whyte s.n. (K, lectotype! chosen by Radcliffe-Smith (1987)).
Acalypha bequaertii Staner [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Jard. Bot. État 15, 2: 141 (1938). Type from Zaire (Shaba).
Information
Stems, inflorescence axes and female bracts variously indumented, but also with an admixture of subsessile or stipitate glands.
Habitat
Understorey of evergreen submontane forest and forest margins, also in ravine and gully forests, submontane grassland and swamp forest (mushitu)
Altitude range
520–2320 m.
2320
520
Distribution
Malawi S Zomba Plateau, fl. 18.xii.1978, Salubeni & Masiye 2390 (MAL; MO; SRGH).Mozambique Z Milange, fl. & fr. 12.xi.1942, Mendonça 1378 (LISC).Malawi N 30.5 km southwest of Mzuzu, fl. 27.iii.1976, Pawek 10921 (K; MAL; MO; PRE; SRGH; UC).Zambia N near Mbala (Abercorn), fr. 27.iii.1960, Angus 2180 (FHO; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Burundi
Zaire (Shaba)
Notes
Torre 462 from N Mozambique (Maniamba), with only one or two glands here and there on the plant body, represents an intermediate condition between var. psilostachya and var. glandulosa.

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