Phyllanthus nummulariifolius var. capillaris Schumach. & Thonn. Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Phyllanthus nummulariifolius var. capillaris Schumach. & Thonn. Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 51, 2: 316 (1996). Types from Ghana.
Phyllanthus capillaris Schumach. & Thonn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 417 (1827); in Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skr. 4: 191 (1829). —Müller Argoviensis in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 338 (1866). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas C: 236 (1895). —Hutchinson in F.T.A. 6, 1: 709 (1912). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas (Veg. Erde 9) 3, 2: 25 (1921). —De Wildeman, Pl. Bequaert. 3, 4: 442 (1926). —Robyns & Tournay, Fl. Sperm. Parc Nat. Alb. 1: 442 (1948). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 222 (1949). —F.W. Andrews, Fl. Pl. Anglo-Egypt. Sudan 2: 90 (1952). —Keay in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1, 2: 387 (1958). —Agnew, Upl. Kenya Wild Fls.: 212 (1974).
Phyllanthus stuhlmannii Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas C: 236 (1895). Type from Uganda.
Information
Young lead shoots and/or lateral shoots evenly to densely whitish-puberulous, the hairs multicellular.
Habitat
Plateau miombo, evergreen forest margins, in marshy ground and tall grasses beside streams, and in dambos
Range
Guinée eastwards to Uganda and south to Angola and Mozambique
Altitude range
60–1920 m.
1920
60
Distribution
Mozambique MS Sofala Prov. (Beira Distr.), Gorongosa Nat. Park, y. fr. iii.1972, Tinley 2473 (K; LISC; SRGH).Mozambique Z Quelimane, Mocuba, Namagoa, fr. 1945, Faulkner 371 (K; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Runde (Lundi) R.–Beitbridge, fl. & fr. 15.ii.1955, Exell, Mendonça & Wild 371 (BM).Mozambique N 25 km Marrupa–Lichinga, y. fr. 10.viii.1981, Jansen, de Koning & de Wilde 166 (K; WAG).Malawi N Chitipa Distr., Misuku Hills, Matipa For., fl. & fr. 27.xii.1977, Pawek 13419 (DAV; K; MAL; MO).Zimbabwe C Goromonzi, male fl. & o. fr. 17.iv.1927, Eyles 4885 (K; SRGH).Zambia W Solwezi, o. fr. 15.v.1969, Mutimushi 3337 (K; NDO).
Notes
The gatherings from central Zimbabwe and Mozambique cited above are somewhat intermediate in the indumentum character between the two varieties.Exell, Mendonça & Wild 371 is a mixture: the LISC and SRGH duplicates of this number are referable to the typical variety, whereas the BM duplicate represents var. capillaris.
Phyllanthus nummulariifolius var. capillaris Schumach. & Thonn. Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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