Knowltonia transvaalensis Szyszyl. [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
Knowltonia whytei Engl. [family RANUNCULACEAE], Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 1: 170 (1915) in obs.: sphalm. pro K. whyteana.
Anemone transvaalensis Szyszyl. Burtt Davy [family RANUNCULACEAE], in Ann. Transv. Mus. 3: 121 (1912). Type as for Knowltonia transvaalensis Szyszyl.
Anemone peneensis Bak. f. [family RANUNCULACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 16 (1911). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 352 (1916). Type: S. Rhodesia, Mt. Pene, Swynnerton 783 (BM holotype).
Anemone whyteana Bak. f. [family RANUNCULACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot., Ser. 2, 4: 4 (1894). Type: Nyasaland, Mt. Mlanje, Whyte 100 (BM, holotype; K).
Knowltonia transvaalensis Szyszyl. [family RANUNCULACEAE], Polypet. Thalam. Rehm.: 99 (1887). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 1: 110 (1926) — Milne-Redh. & Turrill, F.T.E.A. Ranunc.: 12 (1952). — Milne-Redh. in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8 3: 212 (1953). TAB. 4 Type from the Transvaal.
Information
Rhizome short and stout with long silky hairs on the sheathing leaf-bases. Leaves with petioles 7–22 cm. long, densely lanate towards the base, pilose or rarely glabrous above; basal leaves biternate to trifoliolate, the segments varying in size and lobing, lobes 2.10 x 0.8–5.5 cm. Flowering stems 30–80 cm. tall, lanate towards the base. Flowers 2–3 cm. in diam. in simple or compound umbels, 2–15, sweet scented. Tepals white, pink or tinged with purple. Carpels glabrous.
Habitat
Damp places in submontane grassland, often among bracken
Altitude range
1500–2100 m.
2100
1500
Distribution
Mozambique MS Tsetsera, 1850 m., fl. 9.ii.1955, E.M. & W. 327 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Malawi S Mlanje, Luchenya Plateau, 2000 m., fl. 18.vii.1946, Brass 16870 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Inyanga, 2070 m., fl. 23.x.1955, Chase 5833 (BM; SRGH); Chimanimani Mts., 1520 m., fl. 9.vi.1949, Wild 2974 (SRGH).
Distribution (external)
southern Tanganyika
Transvaal
Notes
The freshly crushed leaves contain anemonol, a strong irritant.
Knowltonia transvaalensis Szyszyl. [family RANUNCULACEAE]
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