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Hyalosepalum tenerum

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Syntype of Tinospora stuhlmannii Engl. [family MENISPERMACEAE]

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Identification

Hyalosepalum tenerum (Miers) Troupin [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2008 Desmonema tenerum (Miers) Diels [family MENISPERMACEAE ] Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2008 Tinospora stuhlmannii Engl. [family MENISPERMACEAE ] Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2008 Tinospora tenera Miers [family MENISPERMACEAE ] Verified by Engler, A.,

Flora

Entry for Tinospora tenera Miers [family MENISPERMACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1956) Author: G. TROUPIN

Tinospora tenera Miers [family MENISPERMACEAE], in Contr. Bot. 3: 37 (1871). Type: Portuguese East Africa, Lower Shire Valley, Kirk (K, holo.!)

Tinospora stuhlmannii Engl. [family MENISPERMACEAE], in E.J. 26: 404 (1899). Type: Portuguese East Africa, Quilimane, Stuhlmann I 742 (B, holo. †)

Desmonema tenerum (Miers) Diels [family ], in E.P. IV. 94: 154 (1910); T.T.C.L.: 327 (1949)

Hyalosepalum tenerum (Miers) Troupin [family MENISPERMACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 19: 431 (1949)

Liane with yellow-brown glabrous branchlets. Leaves with glabrous petiole 2–3.5 cm. long; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, cordate or obtuse at base, acuminate, apiculate and sometimes mucronulate at apex, 4–7 cm. long, 2.5–6 cm. wide, glabrous on both sides, papery, pale green; nerves 5, palmate. Male inflorescences 10–35 cm. long; pedicels 2–3 mm. long. Male flowers with oblong-obovate outer sepals 0.5–1 mm. long and 0.4–0.7 mm. wide; inner sepals obovate-spathulate, 1–1.5 mm. long; petals keeled, 1–1.5 mm. long; stamens 6, their filaments connate to halfway up, 1–1.5 mm. long. Female inflorescences, ♀ flowers and fruits unknown.

TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., Apr. 1933 (♂ fl.), Schlieben 3752! & Mtibwa Forest Reserve, Dec. 1953 (♂ fl.), Semsei 1513! & Nov. 1953 (♂ fl.), Paulo 178!

Distribution (external)

; Portuguese East Africa

Northern Rhodesia