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Ancylobothrys petersiana

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Identification
Isotype of Landolphia petersiana Not on sheet. [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by Vonk, G.A.J., Ancylobothrys petersiana (Klotzsch) Pierre [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
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  • Landolphia petersiana
  • Ancylobothrys petersiana

Flora

Entry for LANDOLPHIA petersiana Dyer [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 490, (1909) Author: By OTTOSTAPF.
Names
LANDOLPHIA petersiana Dyer [family APOCYNACEAE], in Kew Report, 1880, 42;—Ficalho, Pl. Uteis Afr. Portug. 219; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 406; L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 319; Dewèvre, Caoutch. Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 27 partly; Jumelle, Pl. à Caoutch. et à Gutta, 57 partly; Morris in Journ. Soc. Arts, xlvi. 775, 780; Warb. in Tropenpfl. iii. (1899) 222, and Kautschukpfl. 118 partly; Sadebeck, Kulturg. Deutsch. Kolon. 272 partly? Henriques, Kautschuk, t. iv.; Schinzin Mém. Herb. Boiss. x. 1900, 57; Dyer in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2756; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 47.
LANDOLPHIA petersiana Dewèvre var. crassifolia [family APOCYNACEAE], l.c. 29 partly; Engl. Glied. Veg. Fl. Usambara, 26; Mikosch in Wiesner, Rohstoffe, ed. 2, i. 362, not of K. Schum.
LANDOLPHIA petersiana Dewèvre var. rotundifolia [family APOCYNACEAE], l.c. 30.
LANDOLPHIA scandens Hallier f. Kautschuklianen var. petersiana [family APOCYNACEAE], in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1890), 3, Beih. 82, 83.
LANDOLPHIA scandens Hallier f. Kautschuklianen var. rotundifolia [family APOCYNACEAE], in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1890), 3, Beih. 82, 83.
LANDOLPHIA scandens Hallier f. Kautschuklianen var. stuhlmanniana [family APOCYNACEAE], in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1890), 3, Beih. 82, 83.
LANDOLPHIA senensis K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 453.
Ancylobothrys petersiana Pierre [family APOCYNACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris 1898, 91; Schinz, l.c.
Ancylobothrys petersiana Pierre var. forbesiana [family APOCYNACEAE], (partly),in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris 1898, 91; Schinz, l.c.
Ancylobothrys rotundifolia Pierre [family APOCYNACEAE], l.c. 92.
Willughbeia petersiana Klotzsch [family APOCYNACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. i. 281, 282.
Willughbeia senensis Klotzsch [family APOCYNACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. i. 281, 282.
Information
a scandent shrub with sensitive inflorescences acting as tendrils; young branches minutely rusty-pubescent to tomentose, soon glabrescent, reddish or finally greyish-brown with numerous small lenticels; leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, subacute or more commonly obtuse at both ends, 3 1/2–4 1/2 in. long, 1 1/4–2 in. broad, coriaceous, loosely pubescent on both sides when quite young, soon glabrous, usually blackish and somewhat glossy above when dry, pallid beneath; midrib channelled above, raised below; secondary nerves oblique, distinctly curved, 6–8 (rarely 10) on each side, finely channelled above, distinctly raised below; tertiary nerves more or less irregular and like the fine network of veins usually distinct, brown, scarcely raised; marginal arches obscure; petiole about 3 lin. long; panicle short or elongate, peduncled, bearing clusters of many sessile flowers at the ends of short spreading or recurved branches; branches or rhachis often acting as tendrils, finely rusty-pubescent or glabrescent all over; peduncle 1–4 in. long, slender; rhachis 1–1 1/2 in. long, lowest branches from a few lines to 1 in. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acute or subacute, rusty-pubescent or tomentose; calyx about 1 in. long; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, more or less laterally compressed in the upper half, rusty-pubescent or tomentose; corolla white, sweet-scented, rather variable in size, 8–13 lin. long (rarely longer) in bud; tube slender, cylindric, about 3–4 1/2 lin. long, slightly wider and staminiferous 1–1 1/2 lin. above the base, minutely and equally pubescent above the widening; lobes obliquely oblong or linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, 6–8 lin. long, curled-ciliate; anthers ovate-oblong, acute, not quite 1 lin. long; ovary globose, very minutely rufo-tomentose; style and stigma 1 lin. long, the latter cylindric from a thicker base, bifid; fruit globose, up to 2 1/2 in. in diam., finely velvety; pericarp leathery, up to 2 lin. thick, without a sclerenchymatous layer; seeds 4–9 lin. long. null
Range
Throughout East Africa as far north as Mombasa, and a variety to Jur.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Delagoa Bay, Forbes!

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