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Tinospora tenera Miers [family MENISPERMACEAE]
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: G. TROUPIN
Names
Tinospora tenera Miers [family MENISPERMACEAE], in Contr. Bot. 3: 37 (1871). Type: Portuguese East Africa, Lower Shire Valley, Kirk (K, holo.!)
Tinospora stuhlmannii Engl. [family MENISPERMACEAE], in E.J. 26: 404 (1899). Type: Portuguese East Africa, Quilimane, Stuhlmann I 742 (B, holo. †)
Desmonema tenerum (Miers) Diels [family ], in E.P. IV. 94: 154 (1910); T.T.C.L.: 327 (1949)
Hyalosepalum tenerum (Miers) Troupin [family MENISPERMACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 19: 431 (1949)
Information
Liane with yellow-brown glabrous branchlets. Leaves with glabrous petiole 2–3.5 cm. long; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, cordate or obtuse at base, acuminate, apiculate and sometimes mucronulate at apex, 4–7 cm. long, 2.5–6 cm. wide, glabrous on both sides, papery, pale green; nerves 5, palmate. Male inflorescences 10–35 cm. long; pedicels 2–3 mm. long. Male flowers with oblong-obovate outer sepals 0.5–1 mm. long and 0.4–0.7 mm. wide; inner sepals obovate-spathulate, 1–1.5 mm. long; petals keeled, 1–1.5 mm. long; stamens 6, their filaments connate to halfway up, 1–1.5 mm. long. Female inflorescences, ♀ flowers and fruits unknown.
Range
DISTR. T6
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., Apr. 1933 (♂ fl.), Schlieben 3752! & Mtibwa Forest Reserve, Dec. 1953 (♂ fl.), Semsei 1513! & Nov. 1953 (♂ fl.), Paulo 178!
Distribution (external)
; Portuguese East Africa
Northern Rhodesia
the Transvaal
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: G. TROUPIN
Names
Tinospora tenera Miers [family MENISPERMACEAE], in Contr. Bot. 3: 37 (1871). Type: Portuguese East Africa, Lower Shire Valley, Kirk (K, holo.!)
Tinospora stuhlmannii Engl. [family MENISPERMACEAE], in E.J. 26: 404 (1899). Type: Portuguese East Africa, Quilimane, Stuhlmann I 742 (B, holo. †)
Desmonema tenerum (Miers) Diels [family ], in E.P. IV. 94: 154 (1910); T.T.C.L.: 327 (1949)
Hyalosepalum tenerum (Miers) Troupin [family MENISPERMACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 19: 431 (1949)
Information
Liane with yellow-brown glabrous branchlets. Leaves with glabrous petiole 2–3.5 cm. long; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, cordate or obtuse at base, acuminate, apiculate and sometimes mucronulate at apex, 4–7 cm. long, 2.5–6 cm. wide, glabrous on both sides, papery, pale green; nerves 5, palmate. Male inflorescences 10–35 cm. long; pedicels 2–3 mm. long. Male flowers with oblong-obovate outer sepals 0.5–1 mm. long and 0.4–0.7 mm. wide; inner sepals obovate-spathulate, 1–1.5 mm. long; petals keeled, 1–1.5 mm. long; stamens 6, their filaments connate to halfway up, 1–1.5 mm. long. Female inflorescences, ♀ flowers and fruits unknown.
Range
DISTR. T6
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., Apr. 1933 (♂ fl.), Schlieben 3752! & Mtibwa Forest Reserve, Dec. 1953 (♂ fl.), Semsei 1513! & Nov. 1953 (♂ fl.), Paulo 178!
Distribution (external)
; Portuguese East Africa
Northern Rhodesia
the Transvaal
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: G. TROUPIN
Names
Tinospora tenera Miers [family MENISPERMACEAE], in Contr. Bot. 3: 37 (1871). Type: Portuguese East Africa, Lower Shire Valley, Kirk (K, holo.!)
Tinospora stuhlmannii Engl. [family MENISPERMACEAE], in E.J. 26: 404 (1899). Type: Portuguese East Africa, Quilimane, Stuhlmann I 742 (B, holo. †)
Desmonema tenerum (Miers) Diels [family ], in E.P. IV. 94: 154 (1910); T.T.C.L.: 327 (1949)
Hyalosepalum tenerum (Miers) Troupin [family MENISPERMACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 19: 431 (1949)
Information
Liane with yellow-brown glabrous branchlets. Leaves with glabrous petiole 2–3.5 cm. long; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, cordate or obtuse at base, acuminate, apiculate and sometimes mucronulate at apex, 4–7 cm. long, 2.5–6 cm. wide, glabrous on both sides, papery, pale green; nerves 5, palmate. Male inflorescences 10–35 cm. long; pedicels 2–3 mm. long. Male flowers with oblong-obovate outer sepals 0.5–1 mm. long and 0.4–0.7 mm. wide; inner sepals obovate-spathulate, 1–1.5 mm. long; petals keeled, 1–1.5 mm. long; stamens 6, their filaments connate to halfway up, 1–1.5 mm. long. Female inflorescences, ♀ flowers and fruits unknown.
Range
DISTR. T6
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., Apr. 1933 (♂ fl.), Schlieben 3752! & Mtibwa Forest Reserve, Dec. 1953 (♂ fl.), Semsei 1513! & Nov. 1953 (♂ fl.), Paulo 178!
Distribution (external)
; Portuguese East Africa
Northern Rhodesia
the Transvaal
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