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Streptocarpus pumilus

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Isotype of Streptocarpus pumilus B.L.Burtt [family GESNERIACEAE]
Holotype of Streptocarpus pumilus B.L.Burtt [family GESNERIACEAE]
Holotype of Streptocarpus hirticapsa B.L.Burtt [family GESNERIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Streptocarpus hirticapsa B.L.Burtt [family GESNERIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Burtt, B.L., Streptocarpus pumilus B.L.Burtt [family GESNERIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Streptocarpus pumilus
  • Streptocarpus hirticapsa

Flora

Entry for Streptocarpus pumilus B.L. Burtt [family GESNERIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 3, page 43, (1988) Author: O. M. Hilliard and B. L. Burtt
Names
Streptocarpus pumilus B.L. Burtt [family GESNERIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1936: 491 (1936).—Hilliard & Burtt, Streptocarpus 247, (1971). Type: Zimbabwe, Rusapi, 1.i.1935, Eyles 8359 (K, holotype; SRGH).
Information
Perennial. Leaves several, loosely associated in a tuft, young ones sessile, flowering ones becoming conspicuously stalked, linear-oblong to ovate, up to 80 × 40 mm., green above, flushed reddish-violet below, pilose on both surfaces, glandular hairs frequent below, margin crenate-dentate, apex obtuse, base subcordate to cuneate, stalk (petiolode) up to 40 mm. long, pilose. Inflorescences one or two at junction of lamina and stalk, few-flowered. Peduncles up to c. 40 mm. long; pedicels up to 15 mm. long, both wiry, sparsely pubescent. Bracts minute. Calyx divided to the base into 5 linear-lanceolate segments, 2 × 0.5 mm., sparsely pubescent with glandular and eglandular hairs. Corolla c. 12–15 mm. long, sparsely glandular-pubescent outside, the roof inside sparsely bearded with multicellular and unicellular hairs, white, tube flushed magenta-pink above, magenta-pink median stripe on inside of each corolla lobe, floor and walls of tube and base of lower lip profusely spotted magenta-pink; tube funnel-shaped, slightly curved, 9 mm. long, c. 2–3 mm. across mouth; limb oblique, lower lip c. 4–6 mm. long, all lobes elliptic-oblong, 3–4 × 1.5–2 mm. Stamens arising in upper third of corolla tube; filaments c. 2 mm. long; anther lobes <1 mm. long, blue-black at maturity; staminodes minute. Ovary c. 3 mm. long, pubescent; style c. 5 mm. long, dorsoventrally compressed; stigma stomatomorphic, papillose. Capsule 7–10 mm. long, crowned with the persistent style base. Seeds 0.3–0.5 mm. long, reticulate.
Habitat
In shelter of rocks on granite hills and on cave floors
Altitude range
c. 1500–1950 m.
1950
1500
Distribution
Zimbabwe C Domboshawa, 7.iii.1946, Wild 899 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Inyanga, Juliasdale, fl. & fr. 23.i.1973, Biegel 4163 (E; K; LISC; SRGH).

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