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Laportea caffra

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Identification
Isotype of Laportea caffra Chew [family URTICACEAE ] Laportea peduncularis (Wedd.) Chew [family URTICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Fleurya caffra
  • Fleurya not on sheet
  • Laportea caffra
  • Laportea peduncularis

Flora

Entry for Laportea peduncularis subsp. peduncularis [family URTICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 6, page 79, (1991) Author: I. Friis
Names
Fleurya mitis Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. Sér. 4, 1: 183 (1854) nom. nud.
Fleurya peduncularis Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], in DC., Prodr. 16, 1: 75 (1869). Type as above.
Fleurya peduncularis var. mitis Wedd. Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], in DC., Prodr. 16, 1: 76 (1869). Types as above.
Fleurya mitis Wedd. N.E. Br. [family URTICACEAE], in F.C. 5, 2: 546 (1925). Types as above.
Laportea caffra Chew [family URTICACEAE], in Gard. Bull., Singapore 25: 155 (1969). Type from S. Africa (Cape Province).
Fleurya capensis var. mitis Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], in Archiv. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., Paris 9 (Monogr. Urtic.): 118 (1856). Syntypes from S. Africa (Natal).
Fleurya capensis [family URTICACEAE], sensu Wedd. in Archiv. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., Paris 9 (Monogr. Urtic.): 117, t. 1, fig. A, 7–8 (1856). —Rendle in F.T.A. 6, 2: 249 (1917), non. F. capensis (L.f.) Wedd. (1854), as “F. c. (Thunb.) Wedd.”
Laportea peduncularis subsp. peduncularis [family URTICACEAE], TABS. 25, fig. 6;26, fig. 6.
Information
Annual herbs. Stems often prostrate or scrambling, sparsely branched, erect branches up to c. 1 m. long, younger parts covered with stinging hairs on short protuberances, rarely glabrescent. Leaves 6–10 x 3–7 cm., ovate; apex acuminate; base truncate, rounded or subcordate; margin finely serrate or toothed, teeth up to 25 on each half of the lamina and usually less than 5 mm. high; lamina upper surface with short stiff hairs, lower surface with short stiff hairs on the nerves. Petioles 4–6 cm. long. Stipules up to 7 mm. long, with a few stiff hairs. Inflorescences sparsely branched, axillary, with scattered stiff or stinging hairs; male 4–6 x 3–5 cm.; female 4–6 x 2–3 cm.
Habitat
In montane and upland evergreen forest and montane scrub, along paths and rivers
Altitude range
1100–1700 m. In S. Cape Province (Knysna) in forest near sea-level.
1700
1100
Distribution
Mozambique GI Gaza, fl. ii.1948, Torre 7287 (LISC)Malawi S Thyolo (Cholo) Mt., 1200 m., female fl. 22.ix.1946, Brass 17733 (BR; K; MO; PRE; SRGH).Malawi C Ntchisi Mt., male fl. 14.iii.1967, Salubeni 596 (SRGH).Mozambique MS Chimoio, Serra de Garuso, male & female fls. 27.iii.1948, Barbosa 1243 (LISC).Malawi N Chitipa Distr., Kasumbi Thicket, Misuku Hills, female fl. 15.iv.1981, Salubeni & Tawakali 3117 (SRGH).Zimbabwe E Mutare, Range Hill, Commonage, 1200 m., fl. 12.i.1960, Chase 7259 (PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania
S. Africa (Transvaal, Natal and Cape Province)
Swaziland

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