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Falkia canescens

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Name

Identification
Falkia canescens Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt B, 1964
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Entry for FALKIA canescens C. H. Wright [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
FALKIA canescens C. H. Wright [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in K.B. 1907 : 54 (1907). Type : Kenya, Nairobi, Powell 10 (K, holo.!)
Information
Stems slender, silky white pilose. Leaf-blade squarish-reniform, up to 8 mm. long and 9 mm. broad, very obtuse or emarginate at the apex, cordate at the base, glabrous above, glabrescent or thinly pilose beneath; petiole up to 10 mm. long. Flowers solitary or on young shoots sometimes appearing to be clustered in small cymes; peduncles 3 mm. long. Calyx silky pilose; sepals ovate, 2 mm. long, sometimes accrescent in fruit and attaining 5 mm. long and 2.5 mm. wide. Corolla white, pink or pale bluish-mauve, much exceeding the calyx, 5 mm. long. Fruit white, tomentose, 4-lobed; lobes up to 1.5 mm. in diameter. Seeds smooth, black-brown, about 1 mm. long. Fig. 3.
Range
DISTR. K3, 4; T2
Altitude range
1550–2400 m.
Distribution
KENYA Nairobi, 2 June 1931, Napier 159 ! ;KENYA Kiambu District Dagoretti, May 1953, Verdcourt in E.A.H. 12497 !KENYA Mt. Kenya, Nyeri, 22 Dec. 1921, Fries 283 !TANGANYIKA Mbulu, 7 Nov. 1932, Geilinger 3477 !
Distribution (external)
; Ethiopia
Notes
In K.B. 12 : 337 (1957) I sank F. canescens into F. dichondroïdes Bak. Meeuse (in Bothalia 6 : 660 (1958)) has shown that this name is an illegitimate synonym of F. dijfusa (Choisy) Hall.f. and has also sunk it into F. repens L. f. In South Africa there is an extraordinary and apparently uncorrelated variation in corolla-size, the smallest variants being very similar to East African material. In East Africa, however, the corolla appears to be uniformly small. I have therefore reverted to the name used above until more evidence is available, either from intermediate stations or from experiments in cultivation; also I am not convinced that all the South African material is conspecific.

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