BALANITES maughamii subsp. maughamii [family BALANITACEAE]

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, (2003) Author: MARTIN J.S. SANDS
Names
BALANITES maughamii subsp. maughamii [family BALANITACEAE], ; Sands in K.B. 56: 35, t. 6/n–k, map 2 (2001)
Balanites sp. [family BALANITACEAE], of Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 315 (1868); Sprague in J.L.S., Bot. 37: 507 (1906); Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr.: 25 (1909)
Trachylobium mossambicensis [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], [sensu Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr.: 51, pl. 56 (1909), pro parte; Mello Géraldès, J. Agric. Trop.: 12, 233 (1912) (as T. ‘ moçambicensis’), non Klotzsch ]
Balanites dawei Sprague [family BALANITACEAE], in K.B. 1913: 137, 140 (1913); V.E. 3: 743 (1915); E.&P. Pf. 19a: 182 (1931); T.T.C.L.: 571 (1949). Type: Mozambique, Manica e Sofala Division, Madanda Forest, Dawe 435 (K!, holo.)
Balanites sp. 1 [family BALANITACEAE], of White, For. Fl. N. Rhodesia: 168 (1962)
Information
Leaflets pubescent above and below or, rarely, at least hairy on the mid-vein beneath, those of leaves on the fertile shoots obtuse or rounded at the apex or if acute then the tip blunt. Indumentum of the inflorescence usually densely pubescent to tomentellous.
Range
DISTR. T 8
Altitude range
250–1100 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Songea District 1.5 km E of Songea, 13 Feb. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8683!;TANZANIA Lindi District Lake Lutamba, 40 km W of Lindi, 20 Sept. 1934, Schlieben 5364! & Rondo escarpment, approach to Lake Lutamba, Nov. 1953, Eggeling 6716!
Distribution (external)
; Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Swaziland
South Africa
Notes
Intermediates between the two subspecies occur from southern Tanzania southwards. In herbaria, sterile and fertile collections of subsp. maughamii may look very different, but sheets which display both fertile and sterile shoots clearly show that they are the same taxon.
BALANITES maughamii subsp. maughamii [family BALANITACEAE]
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