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Smithia ringoetii

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Type of Smithia ringoetii De Wild. [family FABACEAE]

Type of Smithia ringoetii De Wild. [family FABACEAE]

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Name

Identification

Smithia ringoetii De Wild. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Kotschya africana Endl. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Dewit, 1954

Flora

Entry for KOTSCHYA africana (De Wild.) Dewit & Duvign. var. ringoetii [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT

KOTSCHYA africana (De Wild.) Dewit & Duvign. var. ringoetii [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in B.S.B.B. 86: 212 (1954) & in F.C.B. 5: 333 (1954); Verdc. in K.B. 24: 23 (1970). Type: Congo, Katanga, Shinsenda, Ringoet 9 (BR, holo.)

Smithia ringoetii De Wild. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in F.R. 13: 115 (1914); L.T.A.: 308 (1929)

Smithia kotschyi [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], [sensu T.T.C.L.: 442 (1949), pro parte, non Benth. sensu stricto]

Inflorescence-rhachis mostly very short, 1–2 cm. long. Calyx 1–1.5 cm. long, very densely covered with long bristly yellow hairs up to 2.5 mm. long and usually with a silvery pubescence of finer hairs longer than those in the other two varieties.

DISTR. T2, 4, 5, ?8

TANGANYIKA Mbulu District Ufiome, Bonga to Bereku, 14 Aug. 1926, Peter 44220 !TANGANYIKA Mpanda District Kabungu, 22 July 1948, Semsei 149 !TANGANYIKA Kondoa District Bereku Ridge, 15 Oct. 1932, B. D. Burtt 4410!

Distribution (external)

A scrap on a sheet from the “Mts. E. of L. Nyasa” collected by Johnson may be from T8 or from N. Mozambique. No fewer than four species are represented on this sheet, the others being K. princeana (Harms) Verdc., K. recurvifolia (Taub.) F. White and K. strigosa (Benth.) Dewit & Duvign., all collected before 1884.