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Polygala latipetala

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Identification
Polygala latipetala N.E.Br. [family POLYGALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Paiva, J., Polygala uncinata E.Mey. ex Meisn. [family POLYGALACEAE ] Verified by Exell, A.W., Polygala latipetala N.E.Br. [family POLYGALACEAE ] Verified by Brown, N.E.,
Related name
  • Polygala uncinata
  • Polygala latipetala

Flora

Entry for Polygala uncinata E. Mey. ex Meisn. [family POLYGALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 303, (1960) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Polygala rehmannii var. latipetala N.E.Br. Norlindh [family POLYGALACEAE], in Bot. Notis. 1935: 362, fig. 1 (right) (1935). Same type as P. latipetala.
Polygala hamata Burtt Davy [family POLYGALACEAE], F.P.F.T. 1: 48 (1926). Same type as P. uncinata.
Polygala rarifolia [family POLYGALACEAE], sensu Eyles, loc. cit.
Polygala rigens [family POLYGALACEAE], sensu Chod. in Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève, 31, 2: 361 (1893) pro parte quoad syn. P. uncinata. — Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 37: 430 (1906).
Polygala latipetala N.E.Br. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1906: 98 (1906). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 391 (1916). Type: S. Rhodesia, between Umtali and Salisbury, Cecil 45 (K, holotype).
Polygala tenuifolia var. uncinata E. Mey. ex Meisn. Harv. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 88 (1860). Type as above.
Polygala uncinata E. Mey. ex Meisn. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Hook., Lond. Journ. Bot. 1: 468 (1842). TAB. 57 fig. 9. Type from S. Africa (Port Natal).
Information
Perennial sending up annual shoots from a woody rootstock or shrublet with slender, minutely pubescent, angled or slightly winged stems. Leaves 3–15 x 0.5–2.5 mm., linear to narrowly elliptic or linear-spathulate, minutely pubescent or glabrous, usually rounded at the apex with a recurved mucro. Flowers purple or blue, pedicels 2–2.5 mm. long, in terminal racemes 3–10 cm. long with minutely pubescent rhachis and minute, caducous bracts and bracteoles. Posterior sepal 2.5 mm. long; wing sepals 5 x 3 mm., oblong-elliptic, blunt or slightly refuse at the apex, glabrous; anterior sepals 2 mm. long, connate. Upper petals 4.5 x 2.5 mm., obovate-spathulate; carina 5 x 2.5 mm., crest 1.5 mm. long. Stamens 8. Capsule 5.5 x 3.5–4 mm., broadly oblong-elliptic, glabrous, with a narrow marginal wing. Seeds 3.5 x 1.2 mm., elliptic, with dense, white, silky indumentum; caruncle 1 mm. long, appendages absent.
Habitat
Grasslands and edges of swamps
Altitude range
from sea-level to 1520 m.
1520
0
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Fort Victoria, Monro 1354 (BM).Mozambique M Inhaca I., fl. 13.vii.1934, Weintroub (PRE).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani, 1520 m., fl. 26.ii.1907, Johnson 212 (K).Zimbabwe C 10 km. N. of Rusape, Maidstone, 1450 m., fl. & fr. 6.i.1931, Norlindh & Weimarck 4136 (BM).Zimbabwe W Matobo Distr., Besna Kobila, fl. & fr. i.1954, Miller 2071 (BM; SRGH).Mozambique GI Inhambane, Govuro, Mambone, fl. & fr. 2.ix.1942, Mendonça 102 (BM; LISC).Zimbabwe N Mazoe, 1310 m., fl. & fr. xii.1906, Eyles 484 (BM).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa (Transvaal, Orange Free State, Cape Prov.)

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