ANISEIA martinicensis (Jacq.) Choisy [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
ANISEIA martinicensis (Jacq.) Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Mem. Soc. Phys. Genève 8 : 66 (1838); F.W.T.A. 2 : 212 (1931); van Ooststr. in Fl. Males., ser. 1, 4(4) : 435, fig. 21 (1953). Type : West Indies, Martinique, “vicum Roberti” (no specimen traced).
Convolvulus martinicensis Jacq. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Sel. Stirp. Amer. : 26, t. 17 (1763)
Convolvulus uniflorus Burm. f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Fl. Ind. : 47, t. 21, fig. 2 (1768). Type : Java, D. Pryon (type not found)
Aniseia uniflora (Burm. f.) Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 6 : 483 (1834) & in DC., Prodr. 9 : 431 (1845); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 88 (1905)
Ipomoea lanceolata G. Don [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Gen. Syst. 4 : 282 (1837). Type : Sierra Leone, G. Don (BM, holo. !)
Aniseia martinicensis Hall.f. var. ambigua [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in E.J. 18 : 96 (1893). Type : Zanzibar, without locality, Stuhlmann 113 (HBG, lecto.)
Information
Twining perennial herb with slender, thinly pubescent or glabrescent stems, sometimes rooting in pools. Leaves shortly petiolate; blade narrowly elliptic, up to 7 cm. long and 2 cm. wide, obtuse at the apex but minutely mucronate, cuneate at the base, glabrescent or thinly pubescent, particularly at margins and on the nerves below; petiole up to 1 cm. long. Flowers usually solitary; peduncle up to 4 cm. long. Sepals ovate, 8(–16) mm. long, acute, enlarging to 22 mm. in fruit and becoming scarious and venose. Corolla white, 2 cm. long and 2.5 cm. wide. Capsule elongate-ovoid, glabrous, 1.5 cm. long. Seeds black, about 4.5 mm. in diameter, with a tuft of brown hairs near the hilum and also scattered flat hairs. Fig. 13, p. 47.
Range
DISTR. Z pantropical
Altitude range
50–90 m.
Distribution
ZANZIBAR Zanzibar I. , Mtoni Swamp, Feb. 1930, Vaughan 1287! & Migombani 2 Aug. 1930, Vaughan 1435 ! & Kisinbemi, 10 July 1961, Faulkner 2869 !
Distribution (external)
; Angola
Congo Republic
West Africa
Notes
VARIATION. Hallier refers Zanzibar material and some West African and other material to a var. ambigua said to be distinguished by more rounded and subcordate sepals etc. but the material I have seen does not deviate much from typical material.
ANISEIA martinicensis (Jacq.) Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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