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Streptopetalum hildebrandtii

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Type of Streptopetalum hildebrandtii Urb. [family TURNERACEAE]
Type of Streptopetalum serratum Hochst. [family TURNERACEAE]
Type of Streptopetalum hildebrandtii Urb. [family TURNERACEAE]
Holotype of Streptopetalum hildebrandtii Urb. [family TURNERACEAE]
Filed as Streptopetalum hildebrandtii Urb. [family TURNERACEAE]
Isotype of Streptopetalum hildebrandtii Urb. [family TURNERACEAE]
Isotype of Streptopetalum arenarium Thulin [family TURNERACEAE]
Isotype of Streptopetalum hildebrandtii Urb. [family TURNERACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Streptopetalum hildebrandtii Urb. [family TURNERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Streptopetalum hildebrandtii
  • Streptopetalum serratum

Flora

Entry for STREPTOPETALUM hildebrandtii Urb. [family TURNERACEAE]
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, (1954) Author: J. Lewis
Names
STREPTOPETALUM hildebrandtii Urb. [family TURNERACEAE], in Jahrb. K. bot. Gart. & Mus. Berl. 2: 57 (1883). Type: Kenya, Kitui, Hildebrandt 2728 (B, holo. , K & BM, iso.!)
Information
Caulescent homophyllous perennial up to 0.4 m. tall. Stem shortly white-pubescent and setiferous; setae 1–4 mm. long, often drying purple with a pale tip. Leaves ± narrowly elliptic, 3–7 (10) cm. x 0.5–1.5 (–2.5) cm., sessile or petiole not more than 1 (–2) mm. long; base narrowly cuneate; margin sharply serrate, apex acute; roughly pubescent and setiferous. Flowers 3–5 (–6) per inflorescence; peduncle 5–14 cm. long, puberulous and densely setiferous; setae yellow, swollen-based and up to 1 mm. long and sometimes some similar to stem-setae; bracteoles ± 2 mm. long, deciduous; pedicels 3–5 (–8) mm. long, indumentum as of peduncle. Calyx pubescent and sparsely setiferous; tube 10–12 mm. long, hairy within on lower 4–6 mm.; lobes 5–8 mm. long. Petals yellow or orange, 22–32 x 7–8 mm. Filaments equal, 10–12 mm. long. Ovary ovoid-oblong, 2–3.5 x 1.5 mm. longly and irregularly pubescent; styles ± 10.5 mm. long. Capsules broadly ellipsoid, 4–8.5 x 3.5 mm., long pubescent and irregularly setiferous; beak 0.5 mm. long (see Fig. 5/8). Aril ovate, exceeding half the length of the seed in length; margin irregularly subcrenate. Fig. 5/6–9, p. 16.
Range
DISTR. K4, 7; T2 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
1000–1250 m.
Distribution
KENYA Machakos District Makueni location, Nov. 1949, J. G. Williams in Bally 7663 in CM. 17249! & Chyulu foothills, 15 May 1938, Bally 7636!;KENYA Teita District Mwatate, Oct. 1884, Johnston!TANGANYIKA Mbulu District Babati, Oct. 1925, Haarer 92B!TANGANYIKA Moshi District (Kenya boundary): Chala crater, 2 Dec. 1932, Geilinger 4237! and between Himo and Taveta, 13 Apr. 1952, Greenway 8721!

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