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Reissantia indica

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Identification
Reissantia indica (Willd.) Halle [family CELASTRACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Hippocratea indica Willd. [family CELASTRACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 355, (1966) Author: N. K. Robson
Names
Hippocratea indica Willd. [family CELASTRACEAE], in L., Sp. Pl. ed. 4, 1: 193 (1797). — Roxb., Pl. Corom. 2: 16, t. 130 (1799). — Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 368 (1868). — Ficalho, Pl. Ut. Afr. Port.: 119 (1884). — Loes. in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 34: 106 (1904); in Fedde, Repert. 49: 227 (1940). — Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr.: 36 (1909). — Burtt Davy & Hoyle, N.C.L.: 46 (1936). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 246 (1949). — Blakelock & Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 627 (1954). — White, F.F.N.R.: 217 (1962) pro parte quoad specim. White 2397, Angus 1083. Type from India (Coromandel).
Hippocratea indica var. ? Oliv. [family CELASTRACEAE], loc. cit. Type: Mozambique, R. Rovuma, Kirk (K).
Hippocratea cf. indica [family CELASTRACEAE], — Schinz, Pl. Menyharth.: 60 (1905). — Gomes e Sousa, Pl. Menyhart.: 78 (1936).
Hippocratea loesenerana Hutch. & Moss [family CELASTRACEAE], F.W.T.A. 1: 450 (1928); in Kew Bull. 1929: 21 (1929). — Robyns, Fl. Parc Nat. Alb. 1: 506 (1948). — O.B. Mill., B.C.L.: 36 (1948); in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 49 (1952). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 2, 1: 18 (1954). Type from Sierra Leone.
Hippocratea indica forma longepetiolata Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], in Fedde, Repert. 49: 227 (1940). Type: Mozambique, M’Kumba, Tiesler 88 (B†).
Pristimera indica Willd. A. C. Sm. [family CELASTRACEAE], in Amer. Journ. Bot. 28: 438 (1941). Type as for Hippocratea indica.
Reissantia indica Willd. Hallé [family CELASTRACEAE], [in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par., Sér. 2, 30: 466 (1958) sine basion.] in Mém. I.F.A.N. 64: 85 (1962). Type as for Hippocratea indica.
Reissantia indica var. loesenerana Hutch. & Moss Hallé ex Wilczek [family CELASTRACEAE], F.C.B. 9: 146 (1960). — Hallé in Mém. I.F.A.N. 64: 85, t. 32 (1962). Type as for Hippocratea loesenerana.
Information
Shrub, often scandent or scrambling, 1–5 m. high, or liane up to c. 12 m. high, more rarely a small tree, glabrous; stems greyish- to yellowish-green, smooth and 4-lined when young, becoming obtusely 4-lobed or terete and reddish-purple when mature, smooth, without lenticels. Leaf-lamina greyish- or yellowish-green, concolorous or slightly paler and sometimes with brownish nervation below, 4–11·7(15) × (2)3·2–7(10) cm., oblong or elliptic to obovate or subcircular, obtuse to acuminate at the apex, with margin denticulate to subentire, cuneate, ± decurrent at the base, chartaceous, with midrib and 5–7 lateral nerves ± prominent below but the venation otherwise plane; petiole (4) 8–12 mm. long; stipules c. 0·5–0·7 mm. long, triangular to semicircular, laciniate or irregularly dentate, not united. Flowers ? in lax to rather dense simple axillary dichasia with accessory branches; peduncles and inflorescence-branches quadrangular, sometimes glandular along angles; buds c. 0·5 mm. long, ovoid to globose; pedicels 0·5–1 mm. long; bracts c. 0·5–0·7 mm. long, triangular, acute, eroded-denticulate, persistent. Sepals reddish-brown, 0·7–1 mm. long, equal, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, acute or subacute, with margin irregularly ciliolate, united in lower 1/3–2/3. Petals yellowish to cream, drying reddish-brown, 1–2 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, acute to subacute, entire, with margins inrolled, imbricate in bud, erect or ± spreading but straight or incurved towards the apex at anthesis. Disk single, shallowly 3-lobed, surrounding the ovary. Stamens 3, with filaments short, narrow; anthers extrorse, circular, 1-thecous. Ovary with a short style; stigmas completely united; ovules 2 per loculus. Mericarps pale green, 2·8–4 (4·5) × 0·9–1·5 cm., flattened, narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, 2-seeded, striate. Seeds winged, with veins marginal and submedian.
Habitat
in damp or dryish forest or woodland or on river banks, often in stony ground
Range
From Senegal to Cameroun and Fernando Po, Central African Republic, the Congo, Tanganyika and Angola, and occurring south of our area in the Transvaalin tropical Asia from India and Ceylon to the Philippines and Timor
Altitude range
210–1170 m.
1170
210
Distribution
Mozambique GI between Chibuto and Chongoene, fr. 30.vii.1947, Pedro & Pedrogão 2097 (PRE).Mozambique MS Reserve Florestal do Mucheve, Chibabava, fr. 20.vii.1963, Carvalho 635 (K).Mozambique T Boroma, near Máguè, fr. 23.vii.1950, Chase 2688 (BM; K; LISC; SRGH).Malawi S Farringdon road, near Fort Johnston, fl. 14.iii.1955, E.M. & W. 872 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Ndanga Distr., Chiredzi R., fr. 14.x.1951, Thompson 114/51 (SRGH).Zimbabwe W Shangani R., fl., Davies in GHS 32074 (K; SRGH).Mozambique N Nampula, fl. 3.iii.1936, Torre 839 (COI; LISC).Malawi N Rumpi Distr., near Njakwa, fr. 30.iv.1952, White 2540 (FHO; K).Zimbabwe N Sebungwe Distr., c. 64 km. N. of Gokwe, fr. 8.vii.1952, Vincent 2 (SRGH).Zambia S Choma, Mapanza, 1050 m., fl. 26.i.1958, Robinson 2752 (K; PRE; SRGH).Botswana N Kazungula, fl. iv.1936, Miller B128 (BM; FHO; K).Caprivi Strip Mpilili I., c. 900 m., fl. 13.i.1949, Killick & Leistner 3345 (K; PRE; SRGH).
Notes
Although most specimens from our area have the long-petioled obovate leaf with short broad acumen characteristic of forma longepetiolata, the transitional forms to the typical northern form are so numerous as to make separation of these forms impossible. Likewise there appear to be no constant differences between the African and Asian forms of this species. On the other hand, unlike Wilczek (loc. cit.), I think that Reissantia astericantha Hallé is quite distinct from H. indica.

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