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Identification
Laurembergia repens [family HALORAGACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Serpicula repens
  • Serpicula rubicunda
  • Serpicula obovata
  • Laurembergia repens

Flora

Entry for LAUREMBERGIA tetrandra var. brachypoda [family ]
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, (1973) Author: R. Boutique (Jardin botanique national de Belgique) and B. Verdcourt (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Names
LAUREMBERGIA tetrandra var. brachypoda [family ], ; A. Raynal in Webbia 19: 694 (1965); Boutique, Fl. Congo, Haloragaceae: 5, fig. 1/A (1968); Mendes in C.F.A. 4: 32 (1970)
Serpicula repens [family HALORAGACEAE], [sensu Oliv., F.T.A. 2: 405 (1871), non L.]
Serpicula repens Hiern var. brachypoda [family HALORAGACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 332 (1896)
Laurembergia repens (Hiern) Hiern var. brachypoda [family ], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2:482 (1901)
Laurembergia angolensis Schindler [family ], in E.P. IV. 225: 72 (1905). Types: Angola, Lubango, Huila, Dekindt 230 (B, syn. †, LUA, isosyn.) & R. Lopolo, Welwitsch 1621 (B, syn. †, BM, K, isosyn. !) & Welwitsch 1621B (B, syn.†, BM, COI, K, LISU, isosyn.!)
Laurembergia engleri Schindler [family ], in E.P. IV. 225: 73, fig. 21 (1905); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 171 (1954). Types: Nigeria, R. Niger, Nupé, Barter 1665 (B, syn. †, K, isosyn. !) & Sudan, Bahr el Ghazal, Jur [Djur], Seriba Ghattas, Schweinfurth 2582 & 2582a (both B, syn. †, K, isosyn. !) & Angola, Quimbundo [Kibundo], Pogge 145 (B, syn.†)
Laurembergia villosa Schindler [family ], in E.P. IV. 225: 74 (1905); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 171 (1954). Types: Senegal, Mboro, Perrottet 742 & Leprieur (G, syn.)
Laurembergia tetrandra var. numidica [family ], [sensu A. Raynal in Webbia 19: 694 (1965), pro parte; Boutique in Fl. Congo, Haloragaceae: 6, fig. 1/B (1968), pro parte; Mendes in C.F.A. 4: 32 (1970), pro parte, non (Batt. & Trab.) A. Raynal sensu stricto]
Information
Plants glabrous or glabrescent to densely villous-pubescent; leaf-blades linear-oblong to linear (ratio of length to breadth over 2.5), not discolourous. Inflorescence 8–11-flowered; hermaphrodite flowers with pedicel 0.5–0.7 mm. long; petals 0.8 mm. long. Fig. 2/1–6.
Range
DISTR. U4; K3; T1, 4, 7, 8
Altitude range
780–2100 m.
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Kitale, 13 May 1953, Bogdan 3732 ! & same place, 14 Sept. 1958, Napper 790 ! & same area, prison dam, Mar. 1967, Tweedie 3423 !TANGANYIKA Bukoba, June 1931, Haarer 2042 !TANGANYIKA Mbeya Mt., 13 Dec. 1962, Richards 17043 !TANGANYIKA Iringa District Mufindi, Lake Luisenga, 15 Mar. 1962, Polhill & Paulo 1761 !UGANDA Masaka District Sese Is., Bukasa I., 27 Feb. 1945, Greenway & Thomas 7197 ! & Lake Nabugabo, Aug. 1935, Chandler 1320 !UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe, 8 Feb. 1958, Lind 2321 !
Distribution (external)
Senegal
Portuguese Guinea
Liberia
Ghana
Nigeria
Central African Republic
Zaire
Sudan
Malawi
Mozambique
Zambia
Rhodesia
Angola
Notes
Some specimens have been referred to var. numidica (Batt. & Trab.) A. Raynal (based on Serpicula numidica Batt. & Trab., Fl. Anal. et Synopt. Algér, et Tunisie: 128 (1905); type: Algeria, La Calle, Durieu Flora selecta exsiccata 836 (P, lecto.)), but to my mind the ± glabrous tropical African material, e.g. that from Uganda and Tanganyika cited above, is far closer to hairy var. brachypoda than it is to the glabrous var. numidica from N. Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarenes and I have hesitated to refer it to var. numidica. There are numerous intermediates between the glabrous and hairy forms of var. brachypoda; they have been seen from Sierra Leone, Ghana, Zaire, Sudan, Malawi, Zambia and Rhodesia apart from East Africa. The name L. engleri Schindler has frequently been applied to the glabrous form and to these intermediates and indeed the syntypes of L. engleri are intermediates. An example of an intermediate less hairy specimen from the Flora area is Stolz 2465 ! (Tanganyika, Njombe District, Ukinga, Madehani, 26 Jan. 1914). The leaf-blades are nearly always linear but a Senegal specimen determined by Raynal has elliptic blades 1.6 × 0.8 cm.

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