LASIANTHUS kilimandscharicus subsp. kilimandscharicus [family RUBIACEAE]

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, (1976) Author: B. VERDCOURT
Names
LASIANTHUS kilimandscharicus subsp. kilimandscharicus [family RUBIACEAE]
LASIANTHUS sp. [family RUBIACEAE], sensu I.T.U., ed. 2: 348 (1951)
Information
Tertiary venation of leaves very close and with a conspicuous transversely parallel element; nerves glabrous or pubescent beneath; leaves attaining maximum dimensions noted in description. Fig. 11.Newbould3480 (Kenya, Northern Frontier Province, Mt. Nyiru, 5 Jan. 1959) has leaf-blades up to 7 cm. wide, the tertiary venation extremely close and the petioles up to 1.8 cm. long and is a variant perhaps worthy of a name but it is very close to Mt. Kenya material. Uganda, Zaire and Burundi material has much coarser hairs on the leaf venation beneath and on the inflorescences; the calyx-lobes are rather larger and more triangular than in typical material; better material may show that another subspecies should be recognised.
Range
DISTR. U2; K1, 3–5, 7; T2, 3, 5–7
Altitude range
1710–2400 m.
Distribution
KENYA Nakuru District Mau Forest, Endabarra, 16 Jan. 1946, Bally 4845!KENYA Kiambu District Gatamayu Forest, 16 Nov. 1958, Verdcourt 2310! & 8 Mar. 1964, Verdcourt 3987A!KENYA Teita Hills, Ngangao Forest, 6 Feb. 1953, Bally 8748!TANZANIA Moshi District Kilimanjaro, Bismarck Hill to Marangu, 1 Mar. 1934, Greenway 3888!TANZANIA Lushoto District W. Usambara Mts., Magamba Peak, 7 Nov. 1947, Brenan & Greenway 8301! & 5 Nov. 1947, Brenan & Greenway 8289!TANZANIA Morogoro District S. Nguru Mts., Ruhamba Peak, 2 Apr. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1962!UGANDA Ankole District Kalinzu Forest, Aug. 1936, Eggeling 3200!UGANDA Kigezi District Ishasha Gorge, Kayonza Forest Reserve, 5 Aug. 1960, Paulo 660! & Impenetrable Forest, Sept. 1930, Eggeling 3294!
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Burundi
Mozambique
Malawi
Zambia
Rhodesia
Notes
It is interesting to that this was collected on Kilimanjaro as long ago as Aug. 1871 by the Rev. C. New.
LASIANTHUS kilimandscharicus subsp. kilimandscharicus [family RUBIACEAE]
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