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Polygala polygoniflora

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Type of Polygala polygoniflora Chodat [family POLYGALACEAE]

Holotype of Polygala gilletti J.A.R. Paiva [family POLYGALACEAE]

Type of Polygala polygoniflora Chodat [family POLYGALACEAE]

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Identification

Polygala polygoniflora Chodat [family POLYGALACEAE ] Verified by Paiva,J., 1977 Polygala sadebeckiana Gürke [family POLYGALACEAE ] (stored under name);

Flora

Entry for Polygala sadebeckiana Gürke [family POLYGALACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2007) Author: JORGE PAIVA

Polygala sadebeckiana Gürke [family POLYGALACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 233 (1895); U.O.P.Z.: 419 (1949); Exell in F.Z. 1, 1: 316, t. 56/9 (1960); Thulin, Fl. Somalia 1: 85 (1993); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 56 (1994); Paiva in Fontqueria 50: 173, t. 28/e (1998); Gilbert in Fl. Eth. 2, 1: 183, fig. 24.2/18–19 (2000). Type: Tanzania, Uzaramo, Stuhlmann 6711 (B†, syn.; BM!, lecto.; W!, isolecto.)

Polygala schimperi Chodat [family POLYGALACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève 31 (2): 349, t. 28/11 (1893), non C.Presl (1845), nec Hassk. (1864). Type: Ethiopia, Sanka Berr, Schimper 1224 (P!, lecto.; E!, K!, isolecto.)

Polygala maxima Gürke [family POLYGALACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 233 (1895); T.T.C.L.: 456 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Moshi District: Marangu, Volkens 2323 (B†, holo.; E!, lecto.)

Polygala polygoniflora Chodat [family POLYGALACEAE], in J.B. 34: 200 (1896) . Type: Malawi, Mlanje, Scott Elliot 8670 (BM!, holo.; K!, iso.)

Polygala sadebeckiana Chodat var. minor [family POLYGALACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 4(12): 906 (1896) . Type: Uganda, Ruwenzori Mts, Scott Elliot s.n. (B†, holo.)

Polygala vatkeana Exell [family POLYGALACEAE], in J.B. 70: 184 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 456 (1949); Petit in F.C.B. 7: 254, fig. 7/C (1958); Paiva in Fontqueria 50: 173, t. 28/f (1998) . Type: Ethiopia, Sanka Berr, Schimper 1224 (P!, lecto.; E!, K!, isolecto.)

Polygala kassasii Chrtek [family POLYGALACEAE], in Preslia 48(1): 83 (1976). Type: Sudan, Kassala Province, near Gedarif, Kassas et al. 319 (PRC!, holo.; K!, iso.)

Perennial (rarely annual) herb or shrublet, 10–30 cm tall, sometimes sending up annual shoots after burning. Stems erect, simple or ± branched, crisped- to patent-pubescent. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, elliptic to obovate, 10–50(–90)≈(5–)10–25(–40) mm, rounded to subacute, base cuneate to rounded, sparsely to densely pubescent, mainly on the veins and margin; petiole 0.5 mm, pubescent. Flowers greenish-white, in ± congested lateral racemes 1–2.5 cm long; rachis pubescent; bracts and brateoles similar, linear-lanceolate, 1–1.3 mm long, pubescent, persistent; pedicels 1.5–2.5 mm, pubescent. Posterior sepal keel-shaped, 2.5–3.5 mm long, pubescent; wing sepals obliquely elliptic, (4.5–)5–7≈2.5–3.5(–4) mm, pubescent to glabrous; anterior sepals keel-shaped, 2–2.5 mm long, pubescent, free. Upper petals obliquely obovate-elliptic, 2–2.25 mm long; carina 3.5–4 mm long; crest ± 1.5 mm long, fimbriate. Stamens 8. Capsule obovate to suborbicular in outline, (3–)4–6.5≈3.5–5 mm, ciliolate and broadly winged (wing ± 0.5 mm wide). Seeds ovate or elliptic in outline, 2.5–4≈1.5–2 mm, sericeous; caruncle 0.5–0.7 mm long, with three appendages 0.7–2(–2.5) mm long. Fig. 4: 6, p. 10.

DISTR. U 1–4; K 1, 3,4, 6,7; T 1–3, 6–8; P

KENYA Northern Frontier District 50 km NE of Habaswein, 27 Apr. 1978, Gilbert & Thulin 1124!KENYA South Nyeri District Mathera, Cratiki, near Sagana R., 16, May 1957, Kibui 17!KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Kwale–Mombasa road, 5 May 1968, Magogo & Glover 996!TANZANIA Pangani District Utupa, Mseko, Mwera, 21 Aug. 1956, Tanner 3092!TANZANIA Uzaramo District Ruvu, 28 July 1969, Bally 479!TANZANIA Kilwa District Kingupira Forest, 12 Jan. 1977, Vollesen 4315!TANZANIA Pemba Kiwani, 19 Dec. 1930, Greenway 2762!UGANDA West Nile District Terego, Apr. 1938, Hazel 514!UGANDA Kigezi District Ruhinda, Jan. 1951, Purseglove 3532!UGANDA Mengo District Lwala, Bulemezi, June 1925, Maitland 906!

Distribution (external)

The type [Tanzania, Usagara, Madessa, Stuhmann 8112 (B†, holo.)] of P. cryptantha Chodat [in Engl. E.J. 48(1–2): 311 (1912); T.T.C.L.: 456 (1949); Paiva in Fontqueria 50: 307 (1998)] has disappeared and there are no duplicates. It is almost certainly P. sadebeckiana Gürke. The type of P. erlangeri Gürke (Ellenbeck 1984, from Ethiopia) has been destroyed at B.So I do not know what P. erlangeri is; but I do know that it cannot be in subsection Eriopterae (= Blepharidium), where Chodat puts it, because of the original description of the wings; it is in subsection Tinctorieae or Asiaticae. The material from Somalia and Kenya which Thulin in Fl. Somalia 1: 84 (1993) calls P. erlangeri is a different taxon (P. kajii Paiva), occurring in Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania, and not in Ethiopia. The type of P. erlangeri mentioned by Thulin, loc. cit., and by Gilbert in Fl. Eth. 2,1: 180 (2000) is probably either P. obtusissima or P. sadebeckiana .