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Staurogyne alboviolacea

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Holotype of Staurogyne alboviolacea Benoist subsp. grandiflora Napper [family ACANTHACEAE]
Type of Staurogyne alboviolacea Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE]
Type of Staurogyne alboviolacea Benoist var. gracilior Heine [family ACANTHACEAE]
Type of Staurogyne alboviolacea Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE]
Anisosepalum alboviolaceum (R.Ben.) E Hossain var. gracilius (Heine) Champl. [family ACANTHACEAE]
Isotype of Staurogyne alboviolacea R. Benoist var. gracilior Heine [family ACANTHACEAE]
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Identification
Isotype of Staurogyne alboviolacea R. Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Anisosepalum alboviolaceum (Benoist) E.Hossain [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Champluvier D., 1991
Related name
  • Anisosepalum alboviolaceum
  • Staurogyne alboviolacea
  • Staurogyne humberti

Flora

Entry for Anisosepalum alboviolaceum (Benoist) E.Hossain [family ACANTHACEAE]
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: Kaj Vollesen
Names
Anisosepalum alboviolaceum (Benoist) E.Hossain [family ACANTHACEAE], in Not. Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 31: 378 (1972); Champluvier in Fl. Rwanda 3: 433 (1985) & in B.J.B.B. 61: 128, fig. 9 (1991) & in Distrib. Pl. Afr. 40: map 1314 (1994); Lebrun & Stork, Enum. Pl. Afr. Trop. 4: 467 (1997). Type: Gabon, Lastoursville, Nnyounga na Pounga, Le Testu 7442 (P!, holo.; P!, iso.)
Staurogyne alboviolacea Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE], in Notul. Syst. 11: 151 (1944); Heine in Fl. Gabon 13: 121, pl. 25, fig. 6–8 (1966)
Staurogyne alboviolacea Napper subsp. grandiflora [family ACANTHACEAE], in K.B. 24: 342, fig. 5 (1970). Type: Uganda, Kigezi District: Impenetrable Forest, Purseglove 2661 (K!, holo.; EA!, iso.)
Anisosepalum alboviolaceum (Napper) E.Hossain subsp. grandiflorum [family ACANTHACEAE], in Not. Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 31: 378 (1972)
Information
Erect or scandent shrubby herb; stems up to 1 m long, glabrous. Leaves opposite; petiole up to 6 cm long; lamina ovate to elliptic, largest 12–15≈5–6 cm, apex acuminate with obtuse to acute tip, base cuneate to attenuate, margin slightly crenate, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs above. Raceme lax, 4–10 cm long, glabrous; peduncle 1.5–5.5 cm long; bracts with orange glands, narrowly oblanceolate to elliptic, 8–13 mm long, glabrous; pedicels 1–2 mm long; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 4–6 mm long, glabrous. Dorsal and two ventral sepals linear-lanceolate, 4–6 mm long, glabrous; two lateral triangular, ± 1 mm long. Corolla white with 2 purple bosses on lower lip, 17–20 mm long; tube 14–16 mm long, widening gradually near apex, glandular-pubescent outside, puberulous inside and with ring of hairs 3–4 mm above base; upper lip hooded, emarginate, lower lip spreading, lateral lobes lanceolate, 2–3 mm long, median lobe 3–4.5 mm long. Stamens included; filaments 3–4 mm long, sparsely puberulous near base; anthers ± 1 mm long, glabrous; stigma lobes similar. Capsule 5–8 mm long. Seed not seen. Fig. 4, 1–9, p. 22.
Range
DISTR. U 2
Altitude range
1200–1500 m
Distribution
UGANDA Kigezi District Impenetrable Forest, Apr. 1948, Purseglove 2661! & Ishasha Forest, June 1947, Purseglove 2467! & 8 June 1952, Lind 63A!
Distribution (external)
Gabon
Congo
Central African Republic
Congo-Kinshasa
Rwanda
Zambia
Notes
The Ugandan material (subsp.grandiflora)at first sight looks strikingly different from the Central African material, but really only differs in the larger corolla. Plants from Gabon to Congo and Rwanda have a corolla 8–11 mm long while in Kivu Province the corolla is 13–17 mm long. Champluvier in B.J.B.B. 61: 131 (1991) divides the species into a number of informal groups also partly based on corolla size. The Uganda material falls into her “groupe 5”.

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