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Galium bussei

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Galium bussei K.Schum. & K.Krause var. strictus Brenan [family RUBIACEAE]
Holotype of Galium stenophyllum Utzschneider var. flavoviride [family RUBIACEAE]
Filed as Galium bussei K. Schum. & K. Krause variety bussei [family RUBIACEAE]
Isotype of Galium bussei K.Schum. & K.Krause var. glabrum [family RUBIACEAE]
Holotype of Galium bussei K.Schum. & K.Krause var. glabrostrictus Brenan [family RUBIACEAE]
Filed as Galium bussei K. Schum. & K. Krause variety bussei [family RUBIACEAE]
Isotype of Galium bussei K.Schum. & K.Krause [family RUBIACEAE]
Isotype of Galium bussei K.Schum. & K.Krause [family RUBIACEAE]
Galium bussei K.Schum. & K.Krause var. strictus Brenan [family RUBIACEAE]
Type of Galium bussei K.Schum. & K.Krause var. bussei [family RUBIACEAE]
Galium bussei K.Schum. & K.Krause var. strictus Brenan [family RUBIACEAE]
Isotype of Galium bussei K.Schum. & K.Krause var. glabrostrictius Brenan [family RUBIACEAE]
Isotype of Galium bussei K.Schum. & K.Krause var. glabrostrictius Brenan [family RUBIACEAE]
Type of Galium bussei (K.Schum.) K.Krause [family RUBIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Galium bussei (K.Schum.) K.Krause [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Galium stenophyllum
  • Galium bussei

Flora

Entry for GALIUM bussei K. Schum. & K. Krause [family RUBIACEAE]
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, (1976) Author: B. VERDCOURT
Names
GALIUM bussei K. Schum. & K. Krause [family RUBIACEAE], in E.J. 39: 571 (1907); Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 456 (1954). Type: Tanzania, Songea District, Ngaka [Mgaka] valley, Busse 941 (B, holo. †, EA, iso.!, K, photo.!)
Information
Tufted erect or somewhat scrambling herb; stems several, 20–70 cm. tall from a slightly woody rootstock, glabrous to hairy. Leaves and stipules in whorls of 5–10; blades linear to linear-oblanceolate, 0.6–4 cm. long, 0.5–2(–3) mm. wide, with a distinct filiform acumen at the apex, glabrous to hairy but margins without prickles; surface always with some forwardly directed “emergences”. Inflorescences lax to dense, few-many-flowered, 1–2 cm. long; pedicels 1–4(–9) mm. long. Calyx-tube subglobose, 0.5–0.8 mm. long, 0.5–1.1 mm. wide, glabrous. Corolla typically yellow, sometimes cream, white or greenish cream, 2.5–4 mm. wide; tube and joined part of lobes 0.4–0.5 mm. long; lobes (1–)1.4–2 mm. long, (0.5–)0.8–1.2 mm. wide, acute or acuminate. Fruits globose, ± 2 mm. wide, often reduced to 1 coccus.

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