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Psychotria marginata

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Identification
Psychotria marginata Sw. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Psychotria not on sheet
  • Psychotria miconioides
  • Psychotria purdiaei
  • Psychotria micronoides
  • Psychotria kirkii
  • Psychotria nairobiensis
  • Psychotria nicaraguensis
  • Psychotria marginata
  • Psychotria unrecorded
  • Pentas unrecorded

Flora

Entry for PSYCHOTRIA kirkii (Bremek.) Verdc. var. nairobiensis [family RUBIACEAE]
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, (1976) Author: B. VERDCOURT
Names
PSYCHOTRIA kirkii (Bremek.) Verdc. var. nairobiensis [family RUBIACEAE], in K.B. 30: 262 (1975). Type: Kenya, Nairobi, Dawson 490 (K, holo.!)
PSYCHOTRIA nairobiensis Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], in J.B. 71: 278 (1933); T.T.C.L.: 525 (1949); K.T.S.: 466 (1961); E.P.A.: 1018 (1965); Petit in B.J.B.B. 36: 116 (1966)
PSYCHOTRIA marginata Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], in J.B. 71: 279 (1933); T.T.C.L.: 525 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Kondoa District, Kolo, B. D. Burtt 1258 (K, holo.!, EA, iso.!)
PSYCHOTRIA punctata Chiov. var. hirtella [family RUBIACEAE], in Miss. Biol. Borana, Racc. Bot.: 231, fig. 72 (1939). Types: Ethiopia, Javello, Cufodontis 387 & Mega, Cufodontis 626 (both FI, syn.)
PSYCHOTRIA ciliatocostata Cufod. [family RUBIACEAE], in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s. 55: 90 (1948) & in Phyton 1: 149 (1949). Types as for P. punctata var. hirtella Chiov.
Information
Small shrub 1–2.4 m. tall, with usually glabrous stems. Leaf-blades mostly narrowly elliptic, usually quite small, 2–10 cm. long, 05–4 cm. wide, typically about 6.5 × 1.7 cm., often shining above, quite glabrous or with sparse rather long hairs on the midrib beneath or rarely in intermediates with scattered hairs elsewhere beneath, with a very distinct margin which often dries yellowish and thin and is mostly very crinkly in life and dry; petioles 1–5 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U1–3; K1, 3, 4, 6, 7; T1–3,?4, 5–8
Altitude range
(150–)450–2011 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Marsabit, 5 June 1960, Oteke 40!KENYA Nairobi, grounds of Prince of Wales School, 9 Oct. 1953, Verdcourt 1017!KENYA Teita Hills, footpath between Wusi [Wuzi]-Ngerenyi road and Bura Bluff, 17 Sept, 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4398!TANZANIA N. Mara District headwaters of Mara R., 10 Nov. 1953, Tanner 1776!TANZANIA Arusha District Ngurdoto Crater National Park, Longil, E. Lake, 24 Feb. 1966, Greenway & Kanuri 12389!TANZANIA Lushoto District Segoma Forest, 14 Jan. 1970, Faulkner 4322!UGANDA W. Nile District Madi, 14 Dec. 1862, Grant 694!UGANDA Teso District Kyere, Feb. 1933, Chandler 1075 in part!UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe, lake-shore, Oct. 1922, Maitland 164! & N. of Entebbe, Kitubulu Forest, Nov. 1935, Chandler 1466!
Distribution (external)
S. Ethiopia
Malawi
Notes
The varietal epithet hirtella cannot be used since there is already a var. hirtella under P. kirkii (see p. 96).

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