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Staurogyne humbertii

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Name

Identification
Staurogyne humbertii Mildbr. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Anisosepalum humbertii (Mildbr.) E.Hossain [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Champluvier D., 1991
Related name
  • Anisosepalum humbertii
  • Staurogyne humbertii

Flora

Entry for Anisosepalum humbertii subsp. humbertii [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 humbertii subsp. humbertii [family ACANTHACEAE]
Staurogyne humbertii Mildbr. [family ACANTHACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 14: 353 (1937); F.P.N.A. 2: 262, pl. 25 (1947)
Information
Corolla tube 1.6–2 cm long; corolla glabrous inside but for band of hairs 3–4 mm above base.
Range
DISTR. U 2; T 7
Altitude range
1250–2100 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Iringa District Luluzi Hill, July 1953, Carmichael 197! & Udzungwa Escarpment, Boma la Mzinga, 19 June 1979, Mwasumbi 11872! & Udzungwa Mts, Mwanihana Forest Reserve, above Sanje, 14 June 1984, Lovett 299!UGANDA Kigezi District Kasotoro, Sep. 1947, Dale 485! & Impenetrable Forest, Sep. 1936, Eggeling 3304! & idem, Oct. 1940, Eggeling 4178!
Distribution (external)
Congo-Kinshasa
Rwanda
Burundi
Notes
The material from Tanzania has larger and darker corollas than the material from Uganda. It also has longer filaments. But I do not find the populations sufficiently different to recognise two subspecies and looking further west, where other variation patterns occur, the two areas are more or less connected by the populations in Rwanda, Burundi and eastern Congo. There is therefore a real possibility of the species occurring in W Tanzania. Subsp. zambiense Champl. from NW Zambia and Congo has a longer corolla tube with the ring of hairs higher up. This could also occur in SW Tanzania.

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