Compilation
Landtia lobulata
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Name
Identification
Haplocarpha rueppelii (Sch.Bip.) Beauverd [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Halliday; Wilmot-Dear, Landtia rueppellii (Sch.Bip.) Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Hedberg, Landtia lobulata Hutch. [family COMPOSITAE ]
Related name
- Landtia rueppellii
- Haplocarpha rueppelii
- Landtia lobulata
Flora
Entry for HAPLOCARPHA rueppellii (Sch. Bip.) Beauverd [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part 1, page 1, (2000) Author: H. J. Beentje, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.
Names
HAPLOCARPHA rueppellii (Sch. Bip.) Beauverd [family COMPOSITAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève ser. 2, 7: 51 (1915); Lewin in F.R. Beih. 11: 53 (1922), as (Benth. & Hook.) Lewin; A.V.P.: 247 & 366, t. 5b (1957); E.P.A. 2: 1167 (1960); U.K.W.F.: 486, fig. 423 (1974); Blundell, Wild Flow. E. Afr.: t. 367 (1987); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 226, t. 95 (1994). Type: Ethiopia, Mt Buahit, Schimper 1119 (K!, lecto., BM!, isolecto., selected by Hedberg (1957))
Schnittspahnia rueppellii Sch. Bip. [family ANNONACEAE], in Flora 25: 439 (1842); A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss.: 446 (1848). Type: Ethiopia, upper regions of Buahit Mts, Rüppell (K!, syn.) and Schimper 619(=1119) (K!, syn.)
Landtia rueppellii (Sch. Bip.) Vatke [family COMPOSITAE], in Linnaea 39: 509 (1875)
Arctotis rueppellii (Sch. Bip.) O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in P.O.A. C: 419 (1895)
Landtia lobulata Hutch. [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. (1914): 248 (1914). Type: Kenya, Kinangop Mts, Galpin 7918 (K!, holo.)
Landtia kilimanjarica Hutch. & M.B. Moss [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. (1930): 118 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Moshi District, Kilimanjaro, Cotton 44 (K!, holo.)
Information
Perennial scapose or occasionally escapose herb occurring in dense mats; roots many, thick and almost tuberous, rootstock 1–2 cm diameter at ground level; rosettes variably arachnose at base. Leaves petiolate, dark shiny green, ± fleshy, ovate or lanceolate to obovate, rhombic or suborbicular, 2–13 cm long, 1–7.5 cm wide, base cuneate, rounded or cordate, entire to crenate with a few minute spines, or bi–tri-crenate with spinescent teeth, or shallowly irregularly dentate, bidentate, serrate or very deeply toothed (almost lobed), apex ± acute, obtuse or rounded, glabrous to densely hairy and/or arachnose above, densely arachnose and felted beneath; petiole pinkish, somewhat flattened, slightly winged, 1–11 cm long with clasping base sometimes widening to 8 mm. Scapes several to a rosette, pinkish, leafless, slender, erect to 13 cm, swollen or not beneath the solitary capitulum, felted. Capitula 1.5–5 cm diameter; involucre 2–3(–4)-seriate; phyllaries linear to narrowly ovate or obovate, 4–12 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, with scarious margins, sparsely to densely hairy; receptacle 3–4 mm diameter, a somewhat hollowed shallow dome with or without erose scales. Ray florets 8–16, yellow, spreading, ovate, elliptic or obovate, tubular for approximately 1/9 or more the length of the floret, 1–2.4 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, entire or with 1–3(–4) apical teeth and 4–5(–8) veins, glabrous or with scattered multicellular hairs on outer surface. Disc florets(11–)20–40 per capitulum, yellow, urn-shaped, 3.5–7 mm long, divided into reflexed or spreading lobes for 1/3 of their length, glabrous. Achenes not embedded in receptacle, turbinate or oblong, 3–4-costate, at least 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, smooth with minute wrinkles, glabrous; pappus uniseriate, scales 0.5–1 mm long, free in ray florets, partially united in disc florets, 12–15 partite, erect, awl-shaped, ovate, long-acuminate, laciniate, glabrous. Fig. 57.
Range
DISTR. U 3; K 2–4, 6; T 2
Altitude range
2550–4650 m
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Elgon, path W of Kipsare Hill, 25 Dec. 1967, Gillett 18461!KENYA Nakuru District Toboti, about 11 km from Cobb’s gate near edge of Mau Forest Reserve, 22 May 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samuel 1466!KENYA Mt Kenya, just above Camp No. 1, 18 June 1933, Rogers 664!TANZANIA Moshi District Kilimanjaro, near Peters Hut, 23 Feb. 1934, Greenway 3771! & Kilimanjaro, Shira Plateau, 11 Feb. 1969, Richards 24038! & W Kilimanjaro, Shira Mts, Feb. 1928, Haarer 1106!UGANDA Mbale District Elgon, just above open forest zone, 1930, Liebenberg 1578! & Elgon, Bugishu County, 22 Mar. 1951, Wood 127!
Distribution (external)
; Ethiopia
South Africa
Notes
Plants of Haplocarpha rueppellii growing on Mt Elgon appear at first glance to be somewhat different from those found elsewhere in the Flora area, but on closer scrutiny, the only constant distinguishing feature is the upper surface of the leaf which, in the Elgon form, is densely multicellular-hairy. In other localities the indumentum varies from sparsely multicellular-hairy to glabrous on the upper surface of the leaf. This variability makes us reluctant to assign taxonomic rank to the variant (see Hedberg in A.V.P.: 366).