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Oldenlandia holstii

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Identification
Oldenlandia herbacea [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Isotype of Oldenlandia holstii K. Schum. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Oldenlandia holstii
  • Oldenlandia unrecorded
  • Oldenlandia herbacea

Flora

Entry for OLDENLANDIA herbacea (K. Schum.) Bremek. var. holstii [family RUBIACEAE]
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, (1976) Author: B. VERDCOURT
Names
OLDENLANDIA herbacea (K. Schum.) Bremek. var. holstii [family RUBIACEAE], in Verh. K. Nederl. Akad. Wet., Afd. Natuurk., ser. 2, 48(2): 249 (1952). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District, Kwa Mshusa [Mschuza], Holst 8942 (B, holo. †, BM, iso.!)
OLDENLANDIA holstii K. Schum. [family RUBIACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 376 (1895) & in E.J. 30: 411 (1901), excl. Goetze 840
Information
Mostly decumbent perennial herbs; flowers larger, heterostylous, the anthers long exserted in brachystylous form, the corolla-tube (3.5–)7–9 mm. long; ovary and capsule glabrous.
Range
DISTR.. K1, 7; T2–4, 6, 7
Altitude range
600–2190 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Moyale, 6 July 1952, Gillett 13515!KENYA Teita District Ndara Mts., Feb. 1871, Hildebrandt 2435! & Wesu Hospital, May 1955, Ossent 87!TANZANIA Lushoto District E. Usambara Mts., Ndola, 24 May 1950, Verdcourt & Greenway 219!TANZANIA Ufipa District Nsanga Mt., Malonje Plateau, 13 Mar. 1959, Richards 12107!TANZANIA Njombe District 11 km. S. of Njombe, by R. Hagafilo, 8 July 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 10779!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Somali Republic (N.)
Notes
Extremes of this variant are very distinctive and it is difficult to believe that it is not specifically distinct from O. herbacea, but there is considerable variation in the length of the corolla-tube. Some specimens with the corolla-tube only 2 mm. long are heterostylous, e.g. Lewis 5931 (Kenya, Teita Hills, SE. slope of Mt. Vuria, 13 Sept. 1962).

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