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Holotype of Cliffortia tychonis Weim. [family ROSACEAE]

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Cliffortia tychonis Weim. [family ROSACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Weimarck, H., Cliffortia serpyllifolia Cham. & Schlechtend. [family ROSACEAE ] Verified by Mendes, E.J., 1974 Cliffortia nitidula (Engl.) R.E.Fr. & T.E.Fr. [family ROSACEAE ] Verified by Weimarck, H., 1934 Cliffortia tychonis Weim. [family ROSACEAE ] Verified by Weimarck, H., 1932

Flora

Entry for Cliffortia serpyllifolia Cham. & Schlechtend. [family ROSACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora Zambesiaca

Reference Sources

FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 7, (1978) Author: E. J. Mendes

Cliffortia serpyllifolia var. g foliis angustioribus Eckl. & Zeyh [family ROSACEAE], ,loc. cit. Type from S. Africa.

Cliffortia serpyllifolia var. g polyphylla Eckl. & Zeyh. Harv. [family ROSACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., loc. cit. Type from S. Africa.

Cliffortia linearifolia [family ROSACEAE], sensu Bak. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 67 (1911).

Cliffortia tychonis Weim. [family ROSACEAE], in Bot. Notis. 1932: 20 (1932). Type: Rhodesia, Inyanga, Norlindh & Weimarck 4276 (LD, holotype).

Cliffortia nitidula [family ROSACEAE], sensu Weim., op. cit.: 47–48 (1934) pro parte quoad specim. Cooper s.n. in Eyies 2753; Fries, Norlindh & Weimarck 2725 & 3685a; Norlindh & Weimarck 4276; et Galpin 9265 in Eyles 5302.

Cliffortia nitidula [family ROSACEAE], sensu Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 432–433 (1954) pro parte quoad specim. Fries, Norlindh & Weimarck 3685.

Cliffortia serpyllifolia Cham. & Schlechtend. [family ROSACEAE], in Linnaea 2: 34 (1827).—Harv. in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 2: 301 (1862) pro parte excl. var. a penninervis et var. ß chamissonis.—Weim., Monogr. Cliffortia: 51, fig. 12 A-E (1934). TAB. 6 fig. A. Type from S. Africa.

Cliffortia polyphylla Eckl. & Zeyh. [family ROSACEAE], Enum. Pl. Afr. Austr. Extratrop.: 268 (1836). Type from S. Africa.

Shrub up to 1·8 m. tall, usually erect, much-branched, densely bushy. Branches ± diffuse, flexible, widely spreading, densely retrorsely sericeous when young. Leaves trifoliolate, ± closely arranged on short shoots; leaflets up to 8(10) x 1·7 mm., oblanceolate to rhombic with acute apex, glabrous, flat (in shade forms) or with margins slightly revolute but never concealing the midrib as in C. nitidula; venation weakly pinnate; stipules triangular, usually hairy on abaxial surface. Stamens 4(5). Stigma 1, almost sessile.

By streams, frequently in shade of forest trees

From S. Africa to Rhodesia and Mozambique.

inferred only bottom

Mozambique MS Sofala Distr., Gorongosa Mts., Gogogo Peak, fl. 9.x.1944, Mendonça 2413 (K; LISC; LMU); Manica Distr., Zuira Mts., Tsetsera Plateau, road to Manica, fl. 2.iv.1966, Torre & Correia 15570 (COI; EA; LISC; LMA; PRE).Zimbabwe E Umtali Distr., Vumba Mrs., st. 28.x.1948, Chase 1182 (BM; K; SRGH); Inyanga Distr., Mt. Inyangani, fl. 8.xii.1930, Fries, Norlindh & Weimarck 3685a (BM; LD).

I have not seen the type collection of C. serpyllifolia Cham. & Schlechtend. (Cape of Good Hope, Congo R., v.1819, Mundt & Maire s.n.); it was probably destroyed in Berlin. In the protologue of C. polyphylla, Ecklon & Zeyher state that this species is near to C. serpyllifolia, and I follow H. Weimarck (op. cit.: 51–53) in accepting that the two are probably synonymous.