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Fadogia flaviflora

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Name

Identification
Fadogia flaviflora Robyns [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Fadogia tomentosa
  • Fadogia flaviflora
  • Fadogia unrecorded
  • Fadogia cienkowskii

Flora

Entry for Fadogia tomentosa var. calvescens Verdc. Verdc. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 5, Part 2, (1998) Author: D. Bridson
Names
Fadogia tomentosa var. calvescens Verdc. Verdc. [family RUBIACEAE], comb. nov.
Fadogia flaviflora var. calvescens Verdc. [family RUBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 36: 528 (1981). Type: Zambia, Machili, Fanshawe 6110 (BR; K, holotype).
Information
Stems unbranched, or occasionally branched.Leaves at first densely grey-velvety tomentose but soon only ± densely pubescent or glabrescent beneath, save for hairs on the main veins; the indumentum usually distinctly longer than in var. tomentosa.
Habitat
Brachystegia woodland and Burkea–Cryptosepalum woodland on Kalahari Sand, also in scrub transition and dambos on Kalahari Sand
Range
As yet known only from the Flora Zambesiaca area, but would be expected in adjacent Angola and Namibia.
Altitude range
1060–1230 m.
1230
1060
Distribution
Zambia S Machili, fl. 10.i.1961, Fanshawe 6110 (K; NDO).Zambia W Kasempa Distr., 48 km from Mufumbwe (Chizera) on road to Solwezi, fl. 26.i.1975, Brummitt et al. 14145 (K; NDO).Zambia B Barotseland, near confluence of Lungwebungu (Lungibungu) and Litapi rivers, fl. 1.xii.1961, Holmes 1383 (K; NDO).Caprivi Strip Mashi, fl. 5.xi.1962, Fanshawe 7141 (K; NDO).
Notes
The Kew specimen of Bingham 9903/1, from Mongu District, Looma, Nanganda in Zambia, has one unbranched and one branched portion. The Caprivi Strip specimen is somewhat intermediate with var. tomentosa.

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