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Harveya tanzanica

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Name

Identification
Harveya tanzanica Hepper [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Hopper, J.N., Harveya tanzanica Hepper [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Ghazaufous, S.A., Harveya unrecorded unrecorded [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Harveya coccinea (Harv.) R.Schlechter [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Harveya tanzanica
  • Harveya coccinea
  • Harveya unrecorded

Flora

Entry for Harveya tanzanica 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
Harveya tanzanica Hepper [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in K.B. 45: 374 (1990). Type: Tanzania, Morogoro District: Mkobwe, Drummond & Hemsley 1868 (K!, holo.; EA!, iso.)
Harveya coccinea Hepper [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in K.B. 44: 163, fig. 1 (1989), non (Harvey) Schlechter (1899). Type same as above; see Burtt in Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 43: 378 (1968)
Information
Perennial root parasite, drying black; stems 1–5 cm long with numerous nodes. Leaves absent or reduced to scales ± 2 mm long, the upper ovate, ± 7 mm long, glabrous or ciliate at margins; bracts scarlet, ovate, 7–l0 mm long, 3–5 mm broad, ± acute, ciliate. Calyx scarlet, tubular; tube 12–20 mm long, glabrous to pubescent on the veins, teeth shortly triangular, ± 3 mm long, ciliate. Corolla red or deep scarlet outside, shading to pale yellow at base, deep scarlet inside changing abruptly to yellow at mouth of tube; tube 45–50 mm long, lobes rounded, 8–15 mm long. Stamens nearly equal; filaments ± 30 mm long, inserted at same level, pubescent at base; anthers with perfect locule acute, sterile locule long-apiculate; style club-shaped. Capsule and seed not seen.
Range
DISTR. T 6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
1250–1600 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Morogoro District Nguru Mts, Mkobwe, 29 Mar. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1868! & Turiani, 20 Aug. 1971, Schlieben 12239! & Manyanga Forest Reserve, 18 Sept. 1960, Paulo 791!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our area. CONSERVATION Although the species is not uncommon it is very localised and the habitat is under pressure being converted into agricultural land; assessed here as Vulnerable (VU B2a)

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