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Knowltonia transvaalensis

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Identification
Knowltonia transvaalensis Szyszyl. [family RANUNCULACEAE ]
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Entry for KNOWLTONIA transvaalensis Szyszyl. [family RANUNCULACEAE]
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, (1952) Author: E. MILNE-REDHEAD AND W. B. TURRILL
Names
KNOWLTONIA transvaalensis Szyszyl. [family RANUNCULACEAE], Polypet. Thalam. Rehm. 99 (1887). Type: Transvaal, Houtbosh, Rehmann 6402 (?, holo., K, iso.!)
Anemone whyteana Bak.f. [family RANUNCULACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 4, 4 (1894). Type: Nyasaland, Mt. Mlanje, Whyte 100 (BM, holo.! K, iso.!)
Anemone peneënsis Bak.f. [family RANUNCULACEAE], in J. L. S. 40: 16 (1911). Type: Southern Rhodesia, Mt. Pene, Swynnerton 783 (BM, holo.! K, iso.!)
Anemone transvaalensis (Szyszyl.) Burtt-Davy [family RANUNCULACEAE], in Ann. Transv. Mus. 3: 121 (1912)
Knowltonia whytei Engl. [family RANUNCULACEAE], in V.E. 3 (1): 170 (1915), in obs.; sphalm. pro K. whyteana (Bak. f.) Engl.
Knowltonia multiflora Burtt-Davy [family RANUNCULACEAE], in K. B. 1921: 343 (1921); Burtt-Davy, Man. Fl. Pl. Transv. 1: 110 (1926). Type: Transvaal, Lydenburg District, Mac-a-Mac, Mudd (K, holo.!)
Information
Short stout rhizome. Basal leaves biternate to ternate, the segments varying in size and lobing, lobes 2–10 cm. long, 0.8–5 cm. broad; petioles 7–17 cm. long, densely lanate-pubescent towards the base, especially on the sheathing part, with spreading hairs, or rarely glabrous above. Flowering stems 3–8 dm. tall, with dense lanate pubescence towards the base, usually shortly densely pubescent in inflorescence parts. Flowers simply or compoundly “umbellate,” 2–15, usually 2.5–3 cm. in diameter, sweet-scented. Tepals white, sometimes outer tinged with purple. Carpels glabrous.
Range
DISTR. T7
Altitude range
1600 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Njombe District Lupembe, 1 Oct. 1931 Schlieben 1242!
Distribution (external)
Nyasaland
Southern Rhodesia
Transvaal

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