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Pollichia campestris Ait. [family ILLECEBRACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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, (1956) Author: W. B. TURRILL
Names
Pollichia campestris Ait. [family ILLECEBRACEAE], Hort. Kew., ed. 1, 1: 5 (1789). Type: cult. from South Africa, Cape of Good Hope (BM, holo.!)
Information
Woody in lower parts, much branched especially in the middle and upper parts, branches terete up to 7.5 dm. long, with persistent somewhat matted indumentum, white on the younger shoots; internodes mostly 1–3 cm. long. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate or oblanceolate-linear, acute, apiculate, gradually narrowed below but no distinct petiole, 5–32 mm. long, 0.5–9 mm. broad, hairy when young (especially on the margins), glabrescent with increasing age; stipules acuminate, 3–4 mm. long. Flowers 1.5 mm. long. Ovary papillose. Fig. 5.
Range
DISTR. U1, 4; K3, 4, 6; T2, 5 widely distributed from Ethiopia to Cape Province, also in Arabia
Altitude range
1000–2340 m.
Distribution
KENYA Naivasha District Lake Naivasha, Apr. 1938, Chandler 2350!;KENYA Machakos District Sultan Hamud, 20 Sept. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4429!TANGANYIKA Singida District near Singida Boma, 3 Mar. 1928, B. D. Burtt 1363!UGANDA Masaka District Kabula, Sept. 1945, Purseglove 1832!
Notes
The development of the infructescences would repay detailed investigation. When ripe they are red to crimson and, very superficially, resemble raspberries. They are edible. The relationship of filaments to “petals” also requires investigation.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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, (1956) Author: W. B. TURRILL
Names
Pollichia campestris Ait. [family ILLECEBRACEAE], Hort. Kew., ed. 1, 1: 5 (1789). Type: cult. from South Africa, Cape of Good Hope (BM, holo.!)
Information
Woody in lower parts, much branched especially in the middle and upper parts, branches terete up to 7.5 dm. long, with persistent somewhat matted indumentum, white on the younger shoots; internodes mostly 1–3 cm. long. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate or oblanceolate-linear, acute, apiculate, gradually narrowed below but no distinct petiole, 5–32 mm. long, 0.5–9 mm. broad, hairy when young (especially on the margins), glabrescent with increasing age; stipules acuminate, 3–4 mm. long. Flowers 1.5 mm. long. Ovary papillose. Fig. 5.
Range
DISTR. U1, 4; K3, 4, 6; T2, 5 widely distributed from Ethiopia to Cape Province, also in Arabia
Altitude range
1000–2340 m.
Distribution
KENYA Naivasha District Lake Naivasha, Apr. 1938, Chandler 2350!;KENYA Machakos District Sultan Hamud, 20 Sept. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4429!TANGANYIKA Singida District near Singida Boma, 3 Mar. 1928, B. D. Burtt 1363!UGANDA Masaka District Kabula, Sept. 1945, Purseglove 1832!
Notes
The development of the infructescences would repay detailed investigation. When ripe they are red to crimson and, very superficially, resemble raspberries. They are edible. The relationship of filaments to “petals” also requires investigation.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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, (1956) Author: W. B. TURRILL
Names
Pollichia campestris Ait. [family ILLECEBRACEAE], Hort. Kew., ed. 1, 1: 5 (1789). Type: cult. from South Africa, Cape of Good Hope (BM, holo.!)
Information
Woody in lower parts, much branched especially in the middle and upper parts, branches terete up to 7.5 dm. long, with persistent somewhat matted indumentum, white on the younger shoots; internodes mostly 1–3 cm. long. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate or oblanceolate-linear, acute, apiculate, gradually narrowed below but no distinct petiole, 5–32 mm. long, 0.5–9 mm. broad, hairy when young (especially on the margins), glabrescent with increasing age; stipules acuminate, 3–4 mm. long. Flowers 1.5 mm. long. Ovary papillose. Fig. 5.
Range
DISTR. U1, 4; K3, 4, 6; T2, 5 widely distributed from Ethiopia to Cape Province, also in Arabia
Altitude range
1000–2340 m.
Distribution
KENYA Naivasha District Lake Naivasha, Apr. 1938, Chandler 2350!;KENYA Machakos District Sultan Hamud, 20 Sept. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4429!TANGANYIKA Singida District near Singida Boma, 3 Mar. 1928, B. D. Burtt 1363!UGANDA Masaka District Kabula, Sept. 1945, Purseglove 1832!
Notes
The development of the infructescences would repay detailed investigation. When ripe they are red to crimson and, very superficially, resemble raspberries. They are edible. The relationship of filaments to “petals” also requires investigation.
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