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Aristea stipitata

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Identification
Aristea stipitata R.C.Foster [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Aristea cyanea De Wild. [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Aristea ecklonii Baker [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Weimarck H., 1937
Related name
  • Aristea stipitata
  • Aristea cyanea
  • Aristea ecklonii

Flora

Entry for ARISTEA ecklonii Baker [family IRIDACEAE]
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, (1996) Author: Peter Goldblatt
Names
ARISTEA ecklonii Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in J.L.S. 16: 112 (1877) & Handb. Irid.: 144 (1892) & in Fl. Cap. 6: 54 (1896); Weim. in Lunds Univ. Arssk., N.F., Avd. 2, 36: 58 (1940); Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 139 (1968); F.P.U., ed. 2: 210 (1971); Vincent in S. Afr. Journ. Bot. 51: 244 (1985); Goldblatt in F.Z. 12(4): 5 (1993). Lectotype, chosen by Vincent (1985): South Africa, eastern Cape Province, Uitenhage District, Ecklon & Zeyher Irid. 59 (S, lecto., K, photo.!)
ARISTEA dichotoma Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], in Linnaea 34: 551 (1866), nom. illegit ., non (Thunb.) Ker Gawl. Type: as for A. ecklonii
ARISTEA paniculata Pax [family IRIDACEAE], in E.J. 15: 151 (Apr. 1892); Baker in F.T.A. 7: 348 (1898). Type: Mozambique, Makua country, Namuli, Last (K, holo.!)
ARISTEA lastii Baker [family IRIDACEAE], Handb. Irid.: 142 (Aug., 1892), nom. superfl. Based on same collection as A. paniculata
ARISTEA cyanea De Wild. [family IRIDACEAE], Pl. Bequaert. 1: 51 (1921), nom. illegit., non Aiton (1789). Type: Zaire, Tshitirunge, Bequaert 6025 (BR, holo.)
ARISTEA stipitata R.C. Foster [family IRIDACEAE], in Contr. Gray Herb. 114: 50 (1936). Type: as for A. cyanea De Wild.
Information
Plants 40-60 cm. high. Leaves several, basal and cauline, narrowly lanceolate, 5-9 mm. wide, the lower longest and exceeding the stem, progressively reduced in size above, those subtending the axillary flower-clusters 2-5 cm. and exceeding the spathes and bracts. Stem elliptic in section, usually winged, few-several-branched. Flower-clusters several to many, both terminal and axillary, then stalked or ± sessile, each usually (2-)4-flowered; spathes scarious and rust-coloured with herbaceous keels, 1.3-1.6 cm. long; floral bracts entirely scarious, ± 1 cm. long, the margins entire. Flowers blue, on pedicels ± 5 mm. long. Tepals obovate, 8-10 mm. long, ± 4 mm. wide. Filaments ± 4 mm. long; anthers ± 2 mm. long. Style ± 4.5 mm. long, reaching the middle of the anthers, 3-lobed. Capsules cylindric-trigonous, 1.2-1.8 cm. long, on pedicels 6-10 mm. long. Fig. 1/1.
Range
DISTR. U 2;
Altitude range
2000-2400 m.;
Distribution
UGANDA Kigezi District Virunga Mts., Chanzi Hill, Eggeling 924! & Kanaba Gap, June 1946, Purseglove 2078!
Distribution (external)
Cameroon
Rwanda
Burundi
southern Zaire
Zimbabwe
South Africa as far south as Eastern Cape Province
Notes
Easily recognized by the branched and leafy flowering stem and the cylindric capsules up to 1.2-1.8 cm. long, borne on pedicels 6-10 mm. long.

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