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Pupalia velutina

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Name

Identification
Pupalia lappacea Juss. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Pupalia velutina Moq. [family AMARANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Desmochaeta velutina
  • Pupalia velutina
  • Pupalia lappacea
  • Desmochaeta lappacea

Flora

Entry for Pupalia lappacea var. velutina Moq. Hook. f [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 1, page 28, (1988) Author: C. C. Townsend
Names
Pupalia lappacea var. velutina Moq. Hook. f [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Fl. Brit. India 4 : 724 (1885).—Townsend in Kew Bull. 34 : 138 (1979). TAB 20 fig. A1–4. Type from Burma.
Desmochaeta flavescens DC. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Cat. Hort. Monsp: 102 (1813) nomen illegit.
Achyranthes mollis Thonn. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Schum., Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 137 (1827). Type from Ghana.
Pupalia tomentosa Peter [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Fedde, Repert. Beih. 40, 2, Descriptiones 23 (1932). Type from Tanzania.
Pupalia lappacea var. tomentosa Peter Suesseng. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Mitt. Bot. Staatss. München 2 : 31 (1954). Type as above.
Pupalia mollis Thonn. Moq. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in DC., Prodr. 13 , 2: 333 (1849). Type as above.
Pupalia velutina Moq. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in DC., Prodr. 13, 2: 332 (1849). Type from Burma.
Pupalia distantiflora A. Rich. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 217 (1850). Type from Ethiopia.
Information
Plant very variable in leaf shape and indumentum, from thinly pilose to densely villous or tomentose, but rarely silvery- sericeous. Inflorescence axis thinly hairy to densely furnished with patent or deflexed hairs. Outer tepals (3.5)4–5(6) mm. long, oblong-ovate, rather quickly narrowed to the mucronate apex, more or less densely pilose to lanate even in forms with thinly pilose foliage, 3-nerved. Branches of the sterile flowers terminated by (4)5–8 (13) usually stramineous uncinate setae up to 7 mm. long.
Habitat
In a great variety of habitats, commonly in various types of woodland (light to very dense shade), grassland, thickets, roadsides, as weed of cultivation, on rock, hillsides, on sandy or pebbly lake margins etc., usually on light sandy or alluvial soils
Range
The commonest variety, found practically throughout the range of the species
Altitude range
100–1370 m.
1370
100
Distribution
Mozambique GI de Mabalane Mabote, Papai, 5.vi.1959, Barbosa & Lemos 8627 (COI; LISC).Mozambique MS SW. of Beira road and Chicamba road junction, 700 m., 11.iii.1962, Chase 7655 (K; LISC; SRGH).Mozambique Z Maganja da Costa, forest of Gobene, 12.ii.1966, Torre & Correia 14556 (LISC).Malawi S Tumbi Is. E., Monkey Bay, 470–500 m., 1.iii.1970, Brummitt & Eccles 8826 (K; LISC; MAL; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Inyanga, ad villain Cheshire, c.300 m., 15.i.1931, Norlindh & Weimarck 4372 (K; SRGH). Lower Sabi, Rupisi Hot Springs, 520 m., 28.i.1948, Wild 2305 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Sebakwe R. near. Kwe Kwe 1380 m., 6.iii.1961, Richards 14541 (K).Zimbabwe W Lochview, Bulawayo, 1.xi.1975, Cross 268 (K; SRGH).Zambia S 1.6 km. S. of Mambo's Village, Gwembe Valley, 29.iii.1952, White 2359 (FHO; K).Zambia E Beit Bridge, Luangwa R., 22.x.1967, Mutimushi 2171 (K; NDO).Zambia C Luangwa Valley Game Reserve South, 5 km. S. of Lubi R. on Rd., 610 m., 6.ii.1967, Prince 130 (K).Zambia N Mbala Distr., Crocodile Isl., Lake Tanganyika, 780 m., 9.ii.1964, Richards 18976 (K).Botswana SE Boteti delta area, NE. of Mopipi, 850 m., 18.iv.1973, Standish-White 22 (K; SRGH).Botswana SW Kgalagadi, Ditatso Pan, c. 40 km. NW. of Tsabong, 940 m., 25.ii.1963, Leistner 3087 (K; SRGH).Mozambique N Angoche 22.i.1968, Torre & Correia 17328 (LISC).Malawi N 32 km. S. of Karonga, 25.iv.1975, Pawek 9536 (K; MAL; MO; SRGH; UC).Zimbabwe N Gokwe Distr., Chief Nemangwe's area, near Sanyati Mission, 16.iii.1964, Bingham 1161 (K; SRGH).Zambia B Sesheke Distr., near. Kazu Forest, Machili, 20.xii.1952, Angus 984 (FHO; K).Botswana N Maun, c.300 m. from river, ii.1967, Lambrecht 41 (K; PRE).

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