Striga baumannii Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]

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, (2008) Author: S.A. GHAZANFAR, F.N. HEPPER & D. PHILCOX
Names
Striga baumannii Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in E.J. 23: 515, t. 12, figs. O–T (1897); Skan in F.T.A. 4(2): 414 (1906); Hepper in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 371 (1963) & in Proc. Third Parasitic Pl. symp.: 263 (1984); Raynal-Roques in Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris B, Adansonia 7(2): 123–133 (1985); U.K.W.F.: 261 (1994). Type: Sierra Leone, without locality, Scott-Elliot 5085 (K!, lecto.)
Information
Erect, glabrous perennial with stout base and fleshy roots; stems 30–90 cm high, erect, branched above, glaucous. Leaves reduced to scales clasping stems, nodes 1–4 cm apart. Inflorescences slender, up to 20 cm long with numerous pairs of flowers appressed to stem; bracts lanceolate, shorter than calyx, bracteoles subulate. Calyx narrowly tubular, 15–veined, ± 7 mm long; teeth 2 mm long, glabrous, ligneous. Corolla dull yellow (maroon fide U.K.W.F.), glabrous; tube slightly longer than calyx, curved, expanding above, 2-lipped, 5-lobed; lobes 1–2 mm long, recurved (in dry state), acute; style 3 mm long, pubescent. Capsule oblong, ± 6 mm long, ± 1.5 mm wide.
Range
DISTR. U 4; K 3 Mali to Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Congo-Kinshasa
Altitude range
± 1650 m
Distribution
KENYA Uasin Gishu District Kipkarren, Mar. 1932, Brodhurst Hill 755!UGANDA Mengo District Nakasongola, 19 Jan. 1956, Langdale-Brown 1827!
Notes
A specimen from Tanzania, Moshi, Iringa District: H. horsburgh-Porter s.n. (BM) is similar but with broader leaves (5 mm) and larger flowers (23 mm in diameter). Mohamed et al. (op. cit. p. 95) exclude S. baumannii from Striga on the basis of its tuberous roots and ligneous calyx and suggest that it could belong to a new genus.
Striga baumannii Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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