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Sibthorpia europaea

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Identification
Sibthorpia europaea L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
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Entry for Sibthorpia europaea L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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, (2008) Author: S.A. GHAZANFAR, F.N. HEPPER & D. PHILCOX
Names
Sibthorpia europaea L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Sp. P1.: 631 (1753); Hedberg in Bot. Not. 108: 168 (1955) & A.V.P.: 168 (1957) & in Caryologia 28: 253, fig. 6 (1975); Hepper in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 356, fig. 285 (1986); Philcox in F.Z.: 8(2): 75, t. 27 (1990); U.K.W.F.: 257 (1994); Fischer, F.A.C. Scrophulariaceae: 210, pl. 87 (1999) & in Fl. Ethiop. & Eritr. 5: 284 (2006). Lectotype: “Alsine spuria pusilla repens foliis Saxifragae aureae” in Plukenet, Phytographia, t. 7, f. 6, 1691, designated by Hampshire in Jarvis & al. (ed.), Regnum Veg. 127: 88 (1993)
Sibthorpia prostrata Salisb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Ic. Stirp. P. 11 (1791), nom. illegit .
Sibthorpia europaea Skan var. glabra [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in F.T.A. 4(2): 354 (1906). Type: Uganda, Butemba, Scott-Elliot 7848 (K!, holo.)
Information
Prostrate perennial; stems creeping, often matted, rooting at the nodes, ± pilose. Young distal leaves reniform, ± 5 mm in diameter, very shortly petiolate; older leaves reniform, up to 15 mm long and 20 mm wide, margins crenate-dentate, pilose on both surfaces; petiole ± 2 cm long (up to 7 cm in shaded locations). Flowers solitary; pedicels 2–5 mm, much shorter than the petiole. Calyx ± 2 mm long, usually 5-lobed, erect in fruit, pubescent. Corolla pale pink or mauve, slightly longer than calyx. Stamens 4 or 5, included. Capsule obovoid, shorter than calyx, pilose at apex. Fig. 28, p. 97.
Range
DISTR. U 2, 3; K 2–4; T 2, 7 Cameroon south to Zimbabwe; Ethiopia; Mediterranean and western Europe
Altitude range
2000–3500 m
Distribution
KENYA Mt Elgon, 3 Mar. 1948, Hedberg 270!KENYA Nyeri District Aberdare National Park, Chania Falls, 9 Apr. 1975, Hepper & Field 4950!; Mt Kenya, 28 Feb. 1970, Faden & Evans 70/101!TANZANIA Kilimanjaro, 21 June 1948, Hedberg 1334!TANZANIA Mt Meru crater, 30 July 1970, Vesey-FitzGerald 6787!TANZANIA Rungwe District Mwakaleli, 8 May 1975, Hepper, Field & Mhoro 5419!UGANDA Ruwenzori, Bujuku valley, 1 Apr. 1948, Hedberg s.n!UGANDA Kigezi District Mt Muhavura, 3 Oct. 1948, Hedberg 2063!UGANDA Mt Elgon, Jan. 1918, Dummer 3521!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our area. CONSERVATION Least Concern (LC); widespread and common Hedberg (in Bot. Not. 108: 168 (1955)), followed by a number of later authors, indicated 793.1 (LINN) as type but it is not and by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/linnaean-typification/)

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