Sopubia ramosa Hochst. Hochst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 2, (1990) Author: D. Philcox
Names
Sopubia ramosa Hochst. Hochst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Flora 27: 27 (1844). —Skan in F.T.A.4, 2: 449 (1906). —Hepper in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 369 (1963). —O.J. Hansen in Kew Bull.30: 546 (1975). Type from Ethiopia.
Raphidophyllum ramosum Hochst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Flora 24: 668 (1841). Type as above.
Sopubia trifida var. ramosa Hochst. Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 18: 65 (1893); Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 359 (1895). Type as above.
Sopubia similis Skan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in F.T.A. 4, 2: 447 (1906). Type from Ethiopia.
Sopubia laxior S. Moore [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 49: 186 (1911). Type from Angola.
Information
Erect, perennial, much branched herb or undershrub, 45–100(150 or more) cm. tall, scabrid; stems usually branched above with branches ascending, densely pubescent with pubescence usually in 3 or 4 rows alternating with leaf insertions. Leaves usually in whorls of 3–4, 15–30(35) x 1 -3.5 mm., linear to linear-lanceolate, undivided or rarely 3-fid, scabrid, margin revolute, strigose; midrib very prominent. Flowers pink to lilac or lavender, or occasionally purplish, in whorls of 3–4 in long terminal racemes. Pedicels 1.5–4.5 mm. long, increasing to 6.5 mm. in fruit. Bracteoles 2.5–5 mm. long, linear to linear-lanceolate, arising 0.25–0.5 mm. below base of calyx, long pubescent to hispid-strigose or subglabrous. Calyx 3.5–4 mm. long, increasing to 6.5 mm. in fruit, 10-ribbed, shortly scabrid-pubescent without; lobes c. 1.5 mm. long, deltate, densely tomentose at margin and within. Corolla 7–8 mm. long, limb 9–13.5 mm. in diam. Fertile anther thecae 2.8–3 x c. 1 mm., oblong. Capsule 4–5 mm. long, 3–3.5 mm. in diam., broadly ovoid to subglobose, emarginate, glabrous.
Habitat
Forest borders, open woodland to grassy hillsides and plains
Altitude range
from almost sea-level in Mozambique to over 2200 m.
2200
0
Distribution
Mozambique MS Mafusi, 1065 m., fl. & fr. 22.ii.1907, Johnson 141 (K).Mozambique T between Zóbuè and Vila Monzinho, c. 5.9 km. from Zóbuè, fl. & fr. 20.vii.1949, Barbosa 21062 (K).Mozambique Z Quelimane Distr., Namagoa Estate, fl. & fr. viii.1944, Faulkner 177 (BR; K; SRGH).Malawi S Zomba Distr., Zomba Plateau, 1430 m., fl. & fr. 30.v.1946, Brass 16082 (BM; BR; K; NY; SRGH).Malawi C Dedza Distr., Mtendere, 22.4 km. E. of Dedza-Lilongwe road, c. 1350 m., fl. & fr. 25.iv.1971, Pawek 4672 (K).Zimbabwe E Mutasa Distr., Honde Valley, 800 m., fl. & fr. 18.iv.1958, Phipps 1124 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Bikita Distr., c. 9 km. SE. of Silveira Mission, fl. & fr. 7.v.1969, Biegel 3050 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zambia S Mazabuka Distr., Mazabuka, fl. 8.iv.1963, Astle 2354 (SRGH).Zimbabwe C Harare Distr., Umwindisi Valley near Newmarch Farm, fl. iv.1974, West 7727 (K; SRGH).Zambia E Lundazi Distr., Nyika Plateau, Kangampande Mt., 2130 m., fl. & fr. 7.v.1952, White 2743 (BR; K).Zambia C Mkushi Distr., 22 km. E. of Mkushi, Chilongoma Hills, 1400 m., fl. 25.iii.1973, Korna? 3549 (K).Zambia W Solwezi Distr., c. 20 km. NW. of Kansanshi on border, fl. 19.iii.1961, Drummond & Rutherford-Smith 7071 (SRGH).Mozambique N c. 29 km. N. of Mandimba, c. 950 m., fl. 26.v.1961, Leach & Rutherford-Smith 11014 (SRGH).Malawi N Mzimba Distr., South Viphya Plateau, 11 km. S. of Chikangawa on road to Luwawa, 1740 m., fl. & fr. 8.v.1970, Brummitt 10469 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe N near Mutoroshanga (Toroshanga) Pass, Umvukwe Mts., fl. & fr. 24–27.iv.1948, Rodin 4411 (K; SRGH).Zambia N Nkolemfumu, 48 km. S. of Kasama, on Mpika road, fl. & fr. 6.v.1958, Lawton 363 (K).
Distribution (external)
West and Central
Africa
Sudan
Ethiopia
Sopubia ramosa Hochst. Hochst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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