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BASANANTHE apetala (Bak. f.) de Wilde [family PASSIFLORACEAE]

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, (1975) Author: W. J. J. O. de Wildem (Rijksherbarium, Leiden)
Names
BASANANTHE apetala (Bak. f.) de Wilde [family PASSIFLORACEAE], in Blumea 21 : 338, fig. 1/e (1973). Types : Malawi, Zomba, Whyte (K, syn. !, BM, isosyn. !)
Tryphostemma apetalum Bak. f. [family PASSIFLORACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc., ser. 2, 4 : 14, t. 3/7–11 (1894); Hutch. & Pearce in K.B. : 263 (1921); A. & R. Fernandes in Garcia de Orta 6 : 251 (1958)
Tryphostemma apetalum Bak.f. var. serratum [family PASSIFLORACEAE], in J. B. 37 : 437 (1899); Engl., V.E. 3 (2) : 599, fig. 265 (1921); Harms in E. & P.Pf., ed. 2, 21 : 487, fig. 222 (1925); A. & R. Fernandes in Garcia de Orta 6 : 251 (1958). Type : Rhodesia, Salisbury, Marshall (BM, holo. !)
Information
Erect perennial herb up to 70 cm., growing from a woody rootstock, glabrous. Tendrils up to 6 cm., sometimes absent. Leaf-blades elliptic to lanceolate, 1.5–8 by 0.5–2(–4.5) cm., base acute, apex obtuse to acute, margin serrate, the teeth to 1 mm., sharply mucronate; petiole 0.1–0.4(–0.6) cm. Stipules 2–3 mm. False stipules asymmetrical, (0.5–)1–4 cm., acute at both ends, margin serrate. Inflorescences 1–2-flowered; peduncle 1–5 cm.; bracts 1.5–3 mm. Flowers glabrous; stipe 2–5 mm. Hypanthium ± 2.5 mm. wide. Sepals 5, the inner ± petaloid, 4–5.5 mm., obtuse. Petals 0. Outer corona-tube ± 2 mm.; threads 1–1.8 mm. Disk 0.2–0.5 mm. Inner corona cup-shaped, 0.7–1 mm. Stamens 5; filaments 1.5–2.5 mm.; anthers 0.7– 1 mm. Ovary 0.7–1.3 mm.; styles 3(–4), 0.7–1.3 mm., free. Fruit (excluding the 3–6 mm. long gynophore) 1.5–2 cm., containing 1–3 seeds. Seeds ±7 mm.
Range
DISTR. T8
Altitude range
1050 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Songea District 54.5 km. W. of Songea, 28 Feb. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8759 !
Distribution (external)
Malawi
Rhodesia
Mozambique
Notes
The only specimen from the Flora region, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8759, is a deviating specimen with decumbent habit, rather broad leaves, and small but distinct false stipules; it shows some resemblance in habit with the form of B. sandersonii found in the same area.
BASANANTHE apetala (Bak. f.) de Wilde [family PASSIFLORACEAE]
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