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Oldenlandia staelioides

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Holotype of Oldenlandia staelioides K.Schum. forma major De Wild. [family RUBIACEAE]
Type of Oldenlandia staelioides K.Schum. [family RUBIACEAE]
Isotype of Oldenlandia staelioides K. Schum. [family RUBIACEAE]
Type of Oldenlandia staelioides K.Schum. [family RUBIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Manostachya staelioides (K.Schum.) Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Oldenlandia staelioides K.Schum. [family RUBIACEAE ]
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  • Oldenlandia staelioides

Flora

Entry for Manostachya staelioides K. Schum. Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 5, Part 1, (1989) Author: B. Verdcourt
Names
Manostachya staelioides K. Schum. Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], in Verh. K. Nederl. Wet. Afd. Natuurk., ser. 2, 48(2): 146 (1952). —Verdc. in Kew Bull.35: 322 (1980). Type from Angola.
Oldenlandia staelioides K. Schum. [family RUBIACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 23: 418 (1897). —Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 446 (1898).
Oldenlandia staelioides forma major De Wild. [family RUBIACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Congo, sér. 4, 2: 150, t. 4 (1913). Type from Zaire.
Information
Woody-based Thesium-like herb with several erect glabrous branched stems (15)20–45 cm. tall, the stems below the lateral branches essentially leafless. Leaves 2–6(15) x scarcely 0.5 mm., linear-subulate, glabrous or with margins ± ciliolate towards the base. Stipular sheath very short. Flowers distinctly bracteolate, solitary or few in the axils, sessile or pedicels to about 0.5 mm. or sometimes falsely pedicellate by reduction and stalk up to 1 cm. long; the nodes well separated and forming spike-like inflorescences 10–20 cm. long. Calyx tube glabrous; lobes 0.5–1.5 mm. long. Corolla white sometimes with pink-tipped lobes; tube 1.5–2 x 1.5 mm., shortly cylindrical, glabrous inside; lobes ovate, 1–2 x 0.9–1.2 mm., densely pilose inside. Style 2–2.5 mm. long in long-styled flowers, 0.5 mm. long in short-styled flowers; stigmatic lobes ovoid, 0.3 mm. long. Capsule subglobose, about 2 mm. long including the elevated beak which is about j the total. Seeds 0.6 mm. long.
Habitat
grassland, chipya woodland on dambo margins and on limestone
Altitude range
?1500–2250 m.
2250
1500
Distribution
Malawi N Viphya, 65.6 km. SW. of Mzuzu, Chimpyai View, fr. 15.xii.1970, Pawek 4095 (K; MAL).Zambia W 1.6 km. SE. of Solwezi, fr. 4.xi.1962, Lewis 6128(K; MO).
Distribution (external)
Zaire
S. Tanzania
Angola

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