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Polygala kagerensis

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Identification
Polygala kagerensis Lebrun & Taton [family POLYGALACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Polygala transvaalensis Chodat [family POLYGALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Polygala transvaalensis
  • Polygala kagerensis

Flora

Entry for Polygala transvaalensis (Lebrun & Taton) Paiva subsp. kagerensis [family POLYGALACEAE]
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, (2007) Author: JORGE PAIVA
Names
Polygala transvaalensis (Lebrun & Taton) Paiva subsp. kagerensis [family POLYGALACEAE], in Fontqueria 50: 246, t. 46/d (1998). Type: Rwanda, Gabiro, Lebrun 9533 (BR!, holo.; K!, iso.)
Polygala kagerensis Lebrun & Taton [family POLYGALACEAE], in Expl. Parc Nat. Kagera, Miss. J. Lebrun 1937–1938, Contr. État Fl. Parc Nat. Kagera: 81 (1948); Petit in F.C.B. 7: 267, fig. 7/G (1958)
Information
Perennial prostrate herb or subshrub 5–15 cm tall; leaves oblong-obovate to narrowly elliptic, (5–)10–30≈(2–)3–11 mm, acute to rounded and mucronate; flowers in 1–6-flowered lateral racemes 1–2 cm long; wing sepals greenish, obliquely elliptic, mucronate, 4–5≈2.5–3 mm; seeds ovoid, 2.5≈1.2 mm, sericeous-pubescent.
Range
DISTR. U 2, 4; K 6; T 1, 3, 6, 8
Altitude range
400–2000 m
Distribution
KENYA Masai District Narok, top of Isuria Escarpment, on Narok–Kilgoris road, 15 Apr. 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samuel 525B!TANZANIA Lushoto District Mtai–Malindi road, near Kidologwai, 19 May 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 2648!TANZANIA Morogoro District Nguru Mts, near Maskati Mission, 10 June 1978, Thulin & Mhoro 3114!TANZANIA Lindi District Lutamba, 29 Jan. 1935, Schlieben 5927!UGANDA Ankole District Rwampara, 20 Mar. 1938, Snowden 1664!UGANDA Masaka District Nabugabo Lake, 10 Oct. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4732!
Distribution (external)
Rwanda
Notes
P. transvaalensis has two subspecies: the southern subsp. transvaalensis [Zimbabwe, South Africa (Trasvaal, Orange and Natal) and Lesotho] and the central/east subsp. kagerensis. The latter is a sprawling perennial herb or subshrublet (5–15 cm tall), with shorter, mucronate wing sepals (4–5 mm long) and smaller seeds (2.5≈1.2 mm); while the former is an ± erect, perennial herb (10–20 cm tall), with longer, not mucronate (apiculate), wing sepals (4.5–6 mm long) and larger seeds (2.5–3≈1.3–1.5 mm).

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