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Crepidorhopalon gracilis
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Name
Identification
Crepidorhopalon gracilis (Pilg.) Fischer [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Pinto Basto, M.F., 2001 Isotype of Craterostigma guineense Hepper [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Pinto Basto, M.F., 2001
Related name
- Craterostigma guineense
- Crepidorhopalon gracilis
Flora
Entry for Torenia ledermannii Hepper [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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, (2008) Author: S.A. GHAZANFAR, F.N. HEPPER & D. PHILCOX
Names
Torenia ledermannii Hepper [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in K.B. 35: (1981). Type: Cameroon, Garoua near Tchambutu, Ledermann 5047 (B†, holo.; K!, photo.)
Craterostigma gracile Pilger [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in E.J. 45: 213 (1910); Raynal in Adansonia ser. 2, 6: 431, pl. (1966), non Torenia gracilis Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3952
Crepidorhopalon gracilis (Pilger) Eb.Fisch. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in F.R. 100: 443 (1989) & F.A.C. Scrophulariaceae: 90, pl. 34 (1999)
Information
Erect annual herb, (6–)25–40 cm high; stems suffused purple, simple or usually branched in upper part, quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves linear to lanceolate, 3–19 mm long, 2–7 mm wide, sessile, apex acute, margins ± serrate, scabrid-ciliate on the margins, 1–3-veined. Flowers terminating each branch, few together or shortly spicate, almost sessile. Bracts lanceolate. Calyx 5 mm long with 5 wide purple longitudinal bands, teeth triangular, acute, scabrid. Corolla 5–7 mm long, lower lip 3-lobed, violet with a whitish spot in middle and two yellow marks in throat, upper lip deep mauve; anthers bluish, pollen white. Capsule oblong, 5 mm long, acute. Seeds suborbicular, grooved down one side.
Range
DISTR. T 8
Altitude range
± 1000 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Songea District by R. Luhira, near Mshangano, 15 June 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 10817!
Distribution (external)
Cameroon
Zambia
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our area. CONSERVATION Least Concern (LC), but in the Flora area known from a single gathering that was collected in 1956. The Zambia specimens have pubescent angles of the stems, and the flowers are conspicuously pubescent in a capitate inflorescence. If Raynal (l.c.) is correct in including C. guineese Hepper (K.B. 14: 407 (1960)) in the synonymy, the distribution would extend to Guinea Republic, Guinea Bissau and Senegal, but I still consider it to be a distinct species.