Entry for CHENOPODIUM schraderianum Schult. [family CHENOPODIACEAE]
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1954) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
CHENOPODIUM schraderianum Schult. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Syst. Veg. 6: 260 (1820); Bak. & C. B. Cl. in F.T.A. 6 (1): 80 (1909); Brenan in K.B. 1950: 131 (1950); Hauman in F.C.B. 2: 4 (1951). Type: a plant cultivated by Schrader, of unknown origin
CHENOPODIUM foetidum Schrad. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], in Magaz. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 2: 79 (1808); Aschers. & Graebn., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 5 (1): 24 (1913); Aellen in F.R. 24: 345 (1928); Aellen & Just in Amer. Midl. Nat. 30: 56 (1943), non Lam., Fl. Fr. 3: 244 (1778)
Distribution
KENYA North Nyeri District Nyeri, 19 Dec. 1921, Fries 138!KENYA Nairobi, Kirichwa ndogo valley, Jan. 1940, Bally 749!;KENYA Nakuru District Londiani, Dec. 1905, G. S. Baker 348!TANGANYIKA Bukoba District Nyaishozi, Dec. 1931, Haarer 2443!;TANGANYIKA Mbulu District Mbulumbul, 25 June 1945, Greenway 7445!;TANGANYIKA Rungwe District Kyimbila, 23 Sept. 1910, Stolz 292!UGANDA West Nile District Attiak, War, Apr. 1940, Eggeling 3911!;UGANDA Kigezi District Kachwekano Farm, Sept. 1949, Purseglove 3108!;UGANDA Masaka District Kyotera, Nov. 1945, Purseglove 1865!
Notes
For the differences between this species and C. procerum [Hochst. ex] Moq. see under the latter (above).A number of varieties and forms have been recognized under C. schraderianum, notably by Murr in Bull. Herb. Boiss., sér. 2, 4: 990–991 (1904), Aschers. & Graebn., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 5 (1): 24 (1913), and Aellen in F.R. 24: 345–7 (1928); these have been summarized by Hauman in F.C.B. 2: 6 (1951). None has so far been recorded for East Africa, although doubtless they occur. Hauman’s view that these are nothing more than states due to environment, or merely different stages in growth and development, is willingly followed here.