Clematopsis uhehensis Engl. Hutch. ex Staner & Léonard [family RANUNCULACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 89, (1960) Author: A. W. Exell and E. Milne-Redhead
Names
Clematopsis simplicifolia Hutch. & Summerh. [family RANUNCULACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1925: 361 (1925). Type from Tanganyika (Rungwe Mts.).
Clematis uhehensis Engl. [family RANUNCULACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 28: 287 (1900). Type as above.
Clematopsis uhehensis Engl. Hutch. ex Staner & Léonard [family RANUNCULACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 82: 342 (1950). — Exell, Léonard & Milne-Redh. in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 83: 423 (1951). — Milne-Redh. & Turrill, F.T.E.A. Ranunc.: 7 (1952). Type from Tanganyika (Iringa).
Information
Stems 0.4–0.9 m. tall, strongly longitudinally striate with spreading, villous hairs. Leaves up to 9 x 5.5 cm., simple, ovate, sessile or very shortly petiolate, coarsely and somewhat irregularly dentate, sometimes obscurely lobed, with scattered hairs. Flowers 6.5–12 cm. in diam., usually solitary at the ends of the stems. Sepals spreading.
Distribution
Mozambique N east of Lake Nyasa, Johnson (K).Zambia E Nyika Plateau, 2130 m., 27.xi.1955, Lees 104 (K).
Distribution (external)
Tanganyika
Notes
Specimens cited by Garcia (in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 19: 509 (1945)) collected in Mozambique by Gomes e Sousa (Niassa: S. Antonio de Mecango, Gomes e Sousa 1641 (COI) and Torre (Niassa: Lichinga Plateau, Vila Cabral, Torre 34 (BM; COI)) seem to form a series intermediate between this species and C. scabiosifolia. The flowers, which are usually in threes, are much smaller than in C. uhehensis and the leaves, of which the upper pairs are usually simple, are distinctly petiolate.One of the three specimens constituting Lees 104 (K) has, in addition to simple leaves, two 3-foliolate leaves and longer petioles than in the other two specimens. This would seem to have some genes from C. scabiosifolia group D.
Clematopsis uhehensis Engl. Hutch. ex Staner & Léonard [family RANUNCULACEAE]
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