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Dissotis verticillata

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Type of Dissotis verticillata De Wild. [family MELASTOMATACEAE]
Type of Dissotis verticillata De Wild. [family MELASTOMATACEAE]
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Identification
Dissotis verticillata De Wild. [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Dissotis princeps (Kunth) Triana [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Maluma & Geerinck, 2005
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  • Dissotis princeps

Flora

Entry for DISSOTIS princeps var. princeps [family MELASTOMATACEAE]
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, (1975) Author: G. E. WICKENS
Names
DISSOTIS princeps var. princeps [family MELASTOMATACEAE], ; A. & R. Fernandes in An. Junta Invest. Ultramar 10: 39 (1955) & in Mem. Soc. Brot. 11: 91 (1956) & in C.F.A. 4: 155 (1970).
Rhexia princeps Kunth [family MELASTOMATACEAE], Voy. de Humboldt et Bonpland, 6, Monogr. Melast.: 122, t, 46 (1823)
Osbeckia ? princeps (Kunth) DC. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], Prodr. 3: 140 (1828); Naud. in Ann. Sci. Nat., sér. 3, 14: 54 (1850)
Osbeckia eximia Sond. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Linnaea 23: 48 (1850) & in Fl. Cap. 2: 518 (1862). Type: South Africa, Natal, Durban, Gueinzius 145 & 492 (both S, syn.)
Dissotis eximia (Sond.) Hook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in F.T.A. 2: 454 (1871), excl. specimen Grant
Dissotis verticillata De Wild. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 5: 79 (1915). Type: Zaire, Thsisinka, Homblé 1265 (BR, holo.)
Dissotis bamendae Brenan & Keay [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in K.B. 7: 546 (1952). Type: Cameroun, Bamenda, Keay in FHI 28344 (K, holo.!)
Information
Fascicles of bristles on calyx-tube relatively dense, ± obscuring at least the lower half of the calyx-tube when young, ± 2.5 mm. long (fig. 10/5, p. 31). Inflorescence usually condensed.
Range
DISTR. T7, 8
Altitude range
780-1860 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Njombe, by R. Ruhudji, 9 July 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 11026 !TANZANIA Songea District Matengo Hills, Lupemba Hill, 3 Mar. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9009 ! & 9009A !TANZANIA Masasi, Aug. 1965, Beecher 46 !
Distribution (external)
Cameroun
Zaire
Sudan (fide Cufodontis, E.P.A.: 630 (1959))
Ethiopia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zambia
Rhodesia
Angola
Swaziland
South Africa (Transvaal, Natal)

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