Compilation
Ancylanthus fulgidus
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Name
Identification
Isotype of Ancylanthus fulgidus Hiern [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
- Ancylanthus fulgidus
Flora
Entry for Ancylanthos rubiginosus Desf. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 5, Part 2, (1998) Author: D. Bridson
Names
Ancylanthus bainesii Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], in F.T.A. 3: 160 (1877). —Robyns in Bull. Jard. Bot. État 11: 329 (1928). —Miller in J. S. African Bot. 18: 82 (1952). —F. White, F.F.N.R.: 400 (1962). Type: Botswana, without locality, Baines (K, lectotype, chosen here).
Ancylanthus fulgidus Welw. ex Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], in F.T.A. 3: 159 (1877); Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 484 (1898). —K. Schumann in Warburg, Kunene-Samb.-Exped. Baum: 390 (1903). —Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol.: 271 (1909). —De Wildeman, Comp. Kasai: 424 (1910); Études Fl. Katanga [Ann. Mus. Congo, Sér. IV, Bot.] 2: 153 (1913); Notes Fl. Katanga 2: 74 (1913); Contrib. Fl. Katanga: 214 (1921); Pl. Bequaert. 3: 204 (1925). —Robyns in Bull. Jard. Bot. État 11: 326, figs. 33 & 34 (1928). —F. White, F.F.N.R.: 400 (1962). Type from Angola.
Ancylanthos rubiginosus Desf. [family RUBIACEAE], in Mém. Mus. Paris 4: 5, t. 2 (1818) (as “rubiginosa“). —De Candolle, Prodr. 4: 468 (1830). —Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 158 (1877); Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 484 (1898). —Robyns in Bull. Jard. Bot. État 11: 326 (1928). —F. White, F.F.N.R.: 400, fig. 67, I (1962). —Verdcourt in Kew Bull. 42: 131, fig. 2E (1987). TAB. 48. Type from Angola.
Ancylanthus ferrugineus Welw. [family RUBIACEAE], in Andr. Murray J. Trav. Nat. Hist. 1: 29 (1868). Type from Angola.
Information
Suffrutex 0.3–1.5 m tall.Stems erect, single or several shoots from a woody rootstock, mostly burnt off every year; young parts densely covered with rather rough short spreading pale yellowish hairs; older stems ridged with reddish-brown glabrous bark, eventually scaling in small pieces.Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, 3.5–15.5 × 1.2–7.5 cm, ovate, broadly to narrowly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, rounded, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, very discolorous, rather roughly pubescent above, roughly velvety beneath and obscuring the surface, or only densely pubescent on all the venation and not obscuring the surface; venation drying pale and yellowish above contrasting with brownish-green, and raised closely reticulate and brownish beneath contrasting with green; petiole 0.6–1.3 cm long; stipules c. 2 mm long, triangular, with subulate appendage c. 5 mm long.Inflorescences often borne at leafless nodes, (1)3–7(10 or more)-flowered; peduncle up to 7 mm long; secondary inflorescence branches sometimes present; pedicels 2–12 mm long, bracts c. 6 × 3.5 mm, oblong.Calyx tube 3 mm long, campanulate, densely yellowish-brown pubescent; limb-tube c. 1 mm long; lobes 5–13 × 2–5.5 mm, triangular to ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, pubescent.Corolla apiculate in bud; orange-yellow or bright orange, densely ± velvety pubescent; tube 1.7–2.5 cm long; lobes 5–6 × 2.5–4 mm, triangular-ovate, often distinctly veined in dry state, distinctly appendaged.Style exserted 5–6 mm, the pollen presenter greenish-yellow, 2–3 mm long, cylindrical, lobed at the apex.Fruit yellowish, 1.8 × 1.4 cm, ellipsoid, or 1.3 cm in diameter and subglobose, shortly yellowish-brown velvety pubescent, ± lobed when dry, crowned with persistent calyx.
Habitat
Mostly on Kalahari Sand, in Afzelia–Terminalia–Parinari, Diplorhynchus–Terminalia–Uapaca–Hymenocardia, Baikiaea–Brachystegia, Burkea–Baikiaea–Pterocarpus woodlands, also in Acacia erioloba–Combretum thicket and Terminalia sericea scrub, occasionally on steep rocky places on Karroo Sandstone and pan and dambo edges
Altitude range
900–1400 m.
1400
900
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Hwange Game Reserve, west of Dom Pan, x.1960, Pringle 11/60 (K; SRGH).Zambia W Mwinilunga, Luakera Bridge, fl. 2.x.1937, Milne-Redhead 2525 (K).Zambia S Livingstone, fl. 3.xii.1955, Gilges 504 (K; PRE; SRGH).Zambia N Lake Chishi, bud 13.ix.1958, Fanshawe 4819 (K; NDO).Zimbabwe W Victoria Falls, fl. xi.–xii.1904, C.E.F. Allen 97 (K).Zambia B Zambezi (Balovale), fl. 1.xi.1952, Gilges 233 (K; PRE).Botswana N Chobe National Park, between Serondela (Serondella) and Ngwezumba R., fl. 17.x.1972, Pope et al. 811 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Angola
Namibia