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Psorospermum campestre

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Identification
Psorospermum campestre Engl. [family GUTTIFERAE ] Psorospermum febrifugum Spach [family GUTTIFERAE ] Psorospermum senegalense Spach [family GUTTIFERAE ] Psorospermum febrifugum Spach [family GUTTIFERAE ] Psorospermum febrifugum Spach [family GUTTIFERAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Milne-Redhead, E.,
Related name
  • Psorospermum senegalense
  • Psorospermum febrifugum
  • Psorospermum campestre

Flora

Entry for PSOROSPERMUM febrifugum var. febrifugum [family GUTTIFERAE]
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, (1953) Author: E. MILNE-REDHEAD
Names
PSOROSPERMUM febrifugum var. febrifugum [family GUTTIFERAE]
PSOROSPERMUM febrifugum Oliv. var. albidum [family GUTTIFERAE], in F.T.A. 1: 159 (1868); Hiern, Cat. Afr. PL Welw. 1: 57 (1896). Types: Portuguese East Africa, R. Zambezi below Tette, Kirk (K, syn.!), and Angola, Huila, Welwitsch 1066 (BM, K, isosyn.!)
PSOROSPERMUM albidum (Oliv.) Engl. [family GUTTIFERAE], in E.J. 17: 83 (1893); V.E. 3 (2): 502 (1921)
PSOROSPERMUM campestre Engl. [family GUTTIFERAE], in E.J. 17: 84 (1893); V.E. 3 (2): 502 (1921); T.T.C.L. 250 (1949); Fl. Pl. A.-E. Sudan 1: 213 (1950); I.T.U., ed. 2, 159 (1952). Type: Angola, Congo District, S. Salvador, Buettner 40 (B, holo. )
PSOROSPERMUM stuhlmannii Engl. [family GUTTIFERAE], in P.O.A. C.: 274 (1895); V.E. 3 (2): 502 (1921); T.T.C.L. 250 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Uzaramo District, Vikindu, Stuhlmann 6096 (B, holo. )
Information
Stems at first densely rusty-tomentose, later glabrescent. Leaf blades glabrous except on the midrib, the underside pallid with conspicuous reticulation (at least when dry). Pedicels and outside of calyx glabrous. Fig. 4/15, p. 17.
Range
DISTR. U1, 3, 4,; K5; T1, 4, 68 widely spread in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
KENYA Kavirondo, without precise locality, Jan. 1894 (fr.), Scott Elliot 7083!TANGANYIKA Mwanza District Geita, Nov. 1944 (fr.), Erni in Bally 4081!;TANGANYIKA Rufiji District Mafia Island, 3 Apr. 1933 (fr.), Wallace 795!;TANGANYIKA Rungwe District Masukulu, 18 Feb. 1913 (fr.), Stolz 1888!UGANDA Karamoja District Napak, 27 May 1940 (fr.), A. S. Thomas 3579!;UGANDA Teso District Serere, Dec. 1931 (fl.), Chandler 309!;UGANDA Mengo District Kyewaga Forest, 17 Feb. 1950 (fl.), Dawkins 144!

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