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Limnanthemum niloticum

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Identification
Limnanthemum niloticum Kotschy & Peyr. [family MENYANTHACEAE ] Nymphoides indica (L.) Kuntze [family MENYANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Limnanthemum niloticum
  • Nymphoides indica
  • Nymphoides forbesiana

Flora

Entry for Nymphoides forbesiana (Griseb.) Kuntze [family MENYANTHACEAE]
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, (1996) Author: Christopher Whitehouse
Names
Nymphoides forbesiana (Griseb.) Kuntze [family MENYANTHACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 429 (1891); A. Raynal in Adansonia, sér. 2, 14: 424, t. 20 (1974) & in F.A.C., Menyanthaceae: 6, fig. 3 (1975); Mackinder in F.Z. 7(4): 53 (1990). Lectotype, chosen by A. Raynal in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München, 10: 128 (1971): Mozambique, Forbes (K, lecto.!)
Limnanthemum forbesianum Griseb. [family MENYANTHACEAE], Gen. sp Gent.: 345 (1838), pro parte
Limnanthemum niloticum Kotschy & Peyr. [family MENYANTHACEAE], Pl. Tinn.: 28, t. 9a (1867). Type: Sudan, Bongo, de Heuglin 35 (W, holo.)
Limnanthemum thunbergianum [family MENYANTHACEAE], sensu N.E. Br. in F.T.A. 4(1): 584 (1904), pro majore parte, non Griseb.
Limnanthemum kirkii N.E. Br. [family MENYANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 4(1): 585 (1904); U.O.P.Z.: 332 (1949). Types: Kenya, Mombasa, Hildebrandt 1995 (K, syn.!, BM!, P, M, isosyn.) & Zanzibar Province, Kirk 2 (K, syn.!)
Limnanthemum whytei N.E. Br. [family MENYANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 4(1): 585 (1904); Jex-Blake, Gard. E. Afr., ed. 4: 215 (1957). Type: Kenya, N. of Mombasa to Lamu and Witu, Whyte 40 (K, holo.!, BM, iso.!)
Nymphoides nilotica (Kotschy & Peyr.) J. Léonard [family MENYANTHACEAE], in B.S.B.B. 84: 53 (1951); F.P.U.: 124, fig. 71 (1962)
Nymphoides indica [family MENYANTHACEAE], sensu F.P.U., ed. 2: 124, fig. 71 (1971), non (L.) Kuntze
Information
Plants perennial, occasionally annual, often reddish violet especially beneath the leaves. Stolons 1-3 mm. wide. Leaves circular, up to 12 cm. across, with a wide sinus; petiole 5-10(-30) mm. long. Inflorescence usually 10-20-flowered; pedicels (2-)4-7 cm. long. Calyx 4-7 mm., sepals spreading at anthesis, later closing around the capsule. Corolla 1.2-1.5 cm. across, golden yellow; tube ± 3-3.5 mm. long; lobes ± 6-7 mm. long, fimbriate along the margins and midvein, hairy in the throat; heterostylous. Stamens inserted near the sinus’ s of the corolla; filaments 1.5-1.7 mm. long in short-styled flowers, ± 0.5 mm. long in long-styled flowers; anthers 1.1-1.5 mm. long in both types of flowers. Gynoecium ± 4 mm. or 5.5-6 mm.; ovary ovoid, ± 2 mm.; carpels 2; stigma bifid, membranous, laciniate along the margins. Capsule ovoid, ± as long as the calyx but sometimes shorter when it contains only a few seeds. Seeds up to ± 12, smooth to echinulate.
Range
DISTR. U 4; K 7; T 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 (see note), 8; Z; P tropical Africa from Ivory Coast to Somalia, south to South Africa
Altitude range
0-1650 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Masaka District Sesse, Bugala I., 6 Oct. 1958, Symes 458!;KENYA Kwale District Msambweni-Lungalunga road, just before turn-off for Shimba Hills, 18 Sept. 1968, Gillett 18725!;KENYA Mombasa [Mombassa], Nov. 1897, Sacleux 2306!;TANZANIA Bukoba District Rubafu [Lubafu], Apr. 1932, Haarer 2504!;UGANDA Mengo District near Namanve, Kyagwe [Kiagwe], Sept. 1932, Eggeling 562! & Buganda, Kaazi [Kazi], 10 June 1937, Hancock 8/37!KENYA Lamu District N. of Mombasa to Lamu and Witu, 1902, Whyte 40!TANZANIA Rufiji District Mafia I., Mwakuni, Greenway 5018!;TANZANIA Songea District Hanga Farm, ± 55 km. ENE. of Songea, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9417!
Notes
The collections from the Ndembera River, T 7, ( Bidgood, Congdon & Lovett 71, Lovett & Congdon 1165, Perdue & Kibuwa 11581) are probably this SPECIES, although examination of the specimens is inconclusive. Two collections by Wingfield (405 & 406) from ± 2000 m. in the Poroto Mts. are sterile amd indeterminable.

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