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Landolphia angustifolia

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Identification
Ancylobotrys petersiana (Klotzsch) Pierre [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Vonk, G.J.A, 1992 Landolphia angustifolia K. Schum. ex Engl. [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by Vonk, G.J.A., 1992
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Flora

Entry for LANDOLPHIA petersiana Stapf Var. δ angustifolia [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 24, (1904) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
LANDOLPHIA petersiana Stapf Var. δ angustifolia [family APOCYNACEAE], A 74, B 454, 462, C 315, t. xxxix. figs. J-M.; Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1898, 92; Sadebeck, Kulturg. Deutsch. Kolon. 272, 273, 276; Warb. in Tropenpfl. iii. (1899) 314 and Kautschukpfl. 120.
LANDOLPHIA scandens Hallier f. var. angustifolia [family APOCYNACEAE], l.c. 47, 84.
LANDOLPHIA angustifolia Engl. [family APOCYNACEAE], Glied. Veg. Usambara, 34; in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. (1895) 25; Dewèvre, Caoutch. Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 49; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr.
Information
An erect shrub with divaricate branches, and tendrils from the branch-forks; young branches rusty-pubescent, short, the older ones greyish-brown, rough with lenticels. Leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong, subacute or obtuse, more or less obtuse at the base, 1 1/2–2 in. long, 4–8 lin. broad, thinly coriaceous, rigid, glabrous on both sides (except for scanty pubescence on the midrib when young), pale green; secondary nerves 5–6 on each side, rather prominent; reticulation faint. Panicles small, often reduced to a single cluster. Corolla only seen in bud; tube almost glabrous, 2 lin. long; lobes 2 1/2 lin. long (K. Schumann). Ovary densely and very minutely tomentose in the upper part.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; in shrubberies at Mizozue, near Bombuera, Holst, 2220!
Notes
L. petersiana is evidently a very variable plant. It is doubtful if some of the varieties admitted here represent more than individual or local states. On the other hand, there are indications of the existence of more or less distinct forms, which will have to be noticed in future. The fruits of the specimens collected by Sir John Kirk on the Lower Zambesi are exactly globose; but farther north, in German East Africa, a form occurs with almost pear-shaped fruits, solid at the base. Dr. Busse, who collected it in Donde, proposed the name var. Tubeufii for it. Kirk's specimen at Kew from Bagamoyo and Stuhlmann's 6509 and 6657 at Berlin belong to it. Another conspicuous, but imperfectly known, form was collected by Goetze (884!) on the hillsides of the Kande peninsula near Langenburg, Lake Nyasa. It was identified by Hallier f. l.c. 81, with Rowland's specimen from Lagos described here as L. ferruginea, and enumerated together with it as L. scandens, var. ferruginea. The resemblance is very great, but the leaves are rather more ovate, more acutely acuminate, the flowers larger and the young fruits rusty-tomentose, though not so densely and delicately velvety as in typical L. petersiana .

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