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Identification
Heterotis capitata Benth. [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Melastoma capitatum G.Don [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Melastomastrum capitatum (Vahl) A.Fern. & R.Fern. [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] (stored under name); Dissotis capitata (Vahl) Hook.f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Verified by Hutchinson; Dalziel, Dissotis erecta (Guill. & Perr.) Dandy [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Verified by Keay, R.W.J., Wedeliopsis unrecorded unrecorded [family MELASTOMATACEAE ]
Related name
  • Melastomastrum capitatum
  • Dissotis capitata
  • Dissotis erecta
  • Wedeliopsis unrecorded
  • Melastoma capitatum
  • Heterotis capitata

Flora

Entry for MELASTOMASTRUM capitatum (Vahl) A. & R. Fernandes [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
MELASTOMASTRUM capitatum (Vahl) A. & R. Fernandes [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Garcia de Orta 2: 278 (1954) & in Mem. Soc. Brot. 11: 69 (1956); Keay in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 761 (1958); A. & R. Fernandes in C.F.A. 4: 130 (1970). Type: West Africa, ? Sierra Leone, collector not known (C (Herb. Schumacher), holo., K, photo. !)
Melastoma capitata Vahl [family MELASTOMATACEAE], Eclog. Pl. Amer.: 45 (1797)
Melastoma capitata G. Don [family MELASTOMATACEAE], Gen. Syst. 2: 764 (1832), nom. illegit. Type: Sierra Leone, G. Don (BM, holo. !)
Tristemma erectum Guill. & Perr. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Fl. Seneg. Tent. 1: 312 (1833). Type: Senegal, Kounoun, Perrottet (P, holo.)
Heterotis capitata Benth. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Hook., Niger Fl.: 352 (1849), nom. illegit., based on Melastoma capitata G. Don, non Vahl
Melastomastrum erectum (Guill. & Perr.) Naud. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Ann. Sci. Nat., sér.3, 13: 296, t. 5/4 (1850)
Tristemma capitatum (Vahl) Triana [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. 28: 56, t. 24/41d (1 871)
Dissotis capitata (Benth.) Hook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in F.T.A. 2: 449 (1871); Cogn. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 7: 365 (1891); Taub. in P.O.A. C: 295 (1895); Gilg in E.M. 2: 13 (1898); V.E. 3 (2): 747 (1921), nom. Illegit
Dissotis petiolata Hook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in F.T.A. 2: 448 (1871); Cogn. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 7: 363 (1891); Taub. in P.O.A. C: 295 (1895); Gilg in E.M. 2: 12 (1898);V.E. 3 (2): 747 (1921); F.P.S. 1: 192 (1950). Type: Uganda, W. Nile District, Madi, Grant (K, holo. !)
Dissotis erecta (Guill. & Perr.) F. W. Andr. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], F.P.S. 1: 192, fig. 110 (1950); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 259 (1954)
Information
Woody herb or shrub up to 2 m. high; stems robust, erect or weak and flexuous, sparsely scabrid to densely strigose. Leaf-lamina ovate, up to 13 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, apex acute, base cuneate to shortly attenuate, strigose on both surfaces; nerves 5, impressed above, subprominent beneath; petiole up to 1.6 cm. long. Inflorescence of 2 or more flowers enclosed in an involucre of bracts, sessile; outer bracts leafy; inner bracts persistent, oblong, acute, membranous with tufts of long hairs towards the base. Calyx ± 11 mm. long, 5 mm. in diameter, crimson, glabrous except for a few bristles at the base; lobes lanceolate, 7 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, acuminate, margins sparsely ciliate. Petals broadly obovate, 20 mm. long, 15 mm. wide, mauve. Long stamens 22 mm. long, anthers 9 mm. long, mauve, free part of connective 4 mm. long with 2 lobes 1–2 mm. long; short stamens 12 mm. long, anthers 5 mm. long, yellow, free part of connective 0.5 mm. long with 2 lobes 1 mm. long. Ovary 5 mm. long, glabrous except for the apical crown of bristles; style ± 12 mm. long. Fig. 7/12.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; T1, 4 Senegal to the Sudan and south to Angola and Zambia
Altitude range
750–1350 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Bukoba, Aug. 1931, Haarer 2192 !TANZANIA Buha District Kasekela Reserve, 17 Nov. 1962, Verdcourt 3334 !TANZANIA Mpanda District Mahali Mts., Musuma R., 30 Sept. 1958, Newbould & Jefford 2787 !UGANDA W. Nile District Mt. Otzi, Oct. 1959, E. M. Scott in E.A.H. 11800 !UGANDA Kigezi District Ishasha gorge, Nov. 1946, Purseglove 2272 !UGANDA Busoga District Musisi ridge, July 1936, Sangster 157 !
Notes
A. & R. Fernandes, in Mem. Soc. Brot. 11: 15 (1956) & Bol. Soc. Brot., sér.2, 43: 285 (1969), divide the species into three varieties differing principally in the indumentum. The East African material is mostly referable to var. capitatum, but plants from more exposed sites approach var. barteri (Hook. f.) A. & R. Fernandes, which may in fact be based on no more than an ecotypic form of the species.

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