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CHLOROPHYTUM pusillum Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE]
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, (1997) Author: NORDAL (University of Oslo), SHAKKIE KATIVU (University of Zimbabwe) & AXEL D. POULSEN (University of Copenhagen)
Names
CHLOROPHYTUM pusillum Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE], in J.B. 16: 325 (1878) & in F.T.A. 7: 502 (1898); F.P.S. 3: 267 (1956); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 100 (1968). Type: Sudan, Jur [Djur], Schweinfurth 2043 (K, holo.!, B, P, iso.!)
CHLOROPHYTUM micans Engl. & K. Krause [family ANTHERICACEAE], in E.J. 45: 135 (1910). Type: N. Cameroon, Ledermann 4403 (B, holo.!)
Information
Plants small, often in patches, up to 3.5 cm. high. Rhizome not distinct; roots short, ± spongy, with elongated tubers, roots sometimes reduced to sessile or subsessile elongated tuberous structures. Leaves rosulate, ± prostrate, 1–4 to a plant, rarely more, oblanceolate, thinly membranous, glabrous, (2.5–)5–15 cm. long, (1.5–)3–10 cm. wide; margins crisped, in SW. Tanzania a form occurs with red ciliate margins. Peduncle reduced, up to 1(–3) cm. long. Inflorescence unbranched, dense, 2–5 cm. long. Pedicels apparently without articulation, 1–5 mm. long, several at each node. Perianth white; tepals 4–5 mm. long, ± 1 mm. wide, 3-veined. Stamens as long as the perianth; filaments fusiform and papillate, 2.5–5 mm. long, longer than the anthers. Ovary sessile, with ± 5 ovules per locule; style straight, as long as the stamens. Capsule shallowly deltoid, smooth, ± 4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide. Seeds slightly folded, saucer-shaped, ± 1.5 mm. in diameter. Fig. 11/2–5.
Range
DISTR. U 1; T 5–7
Altitude range
1000–1400 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Labwor, 6 June 1940, A.S. Thomas 3721!TANZANIA Dodoma District Rungwa Game Reserve, Sulangi, 10 km. W. of Bagamoyo, 24 Jan. 1969, V.C. Gilbert 3627!;TANZANIA Iringa District 30 km. W. of Iringa, 13 Jan. 1972, A. Bjørnstad 1232! & 24 km. E. of Iringa on Morogoro road, 28 Dec. 1966, Hanid, Hanid & Musumba 340!
Distribution (external)
; Senegal
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Nigeria
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Sudan
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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, (1997) Author: NORDAL (University of Oslo), SHAKKIE KATIVU (University of Zimbabwe) & AXEL D. POULSEN (University of Copenhagen)
Names
CHLOROPHYTUM pusillum Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE], in J.B. 16: 325 (1878) & in F.T.A. 7: 502 (1898); F.P.S. 3: 267 (1956); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 100 (1968). Type: Sudan, Jur [Djur], Schweinfurth 2043 (K, holo.!, B, P, iso.!)
CHLOROPHYTUM micans Engl. & K. Krause [family ANTHERICACEAE], in E.J. 45: 135 (1910). Type: N. Cameroon, Ledermann 4403 (B, holo.!)
Information
Plants small, often in patches, up to 3.5 cm. high. Rhizome not distinct; roots short, ± spongy, with elongated tubers, roots sometimes reduced to sessile or subsessile elongated tuberous structures. Leaves rosulate, ± prostrate, 1–4 to a plant, rarely more, oblanceolate, thinly membranous, glabrous, (2.5–)5–15 cm. long, (1.5–)3–10 cm. wide; margins crisped, in SW. Tanzania a form occurs with red ciliate margins. Peduncle reduced, up to 1(–3) cm. long. Inflorescence unbranched, dense, 2–5 cm. long. Pedicels apparently without articulation, 1–5 mm. long, several at each node. Perianth white; tepals 4–5 mm. long, ± 1 mm. wide, 3-veined. Stamens as long as the perianth; filaments fusiform and papillate, 2.5–5 mm. long, longer than the anthers. Ovary sessile, with ± 5 ovules per locule; style straight, as long as the stamens. Capsule shallowly deltoid, smooth, ± 4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide. Seeds slightly folded, saucer-shaped, ± 1.5 mm. in diameter. Fig. 11/2–5.
Range
DISTR. U 1; T 5–7
Altitude range
1000–1400 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Labwor, 6 June 1940, A.S. Thomas 3721!TANZANIA Dodoma District Rungwa Game Reserve, Sulangi, 10 km. W. of Bagamoyo, 24 Jan. 1969, V.C. Gilbert 3627!;TANZANIA Iringa District 30 km. W. of Iringa, 13 Jan. 1972, A. Bjørnstad 1232! & 24 km. E. of Iringa on Morogoro road, 28 Dec. 1966, Hanid, Hanid & Musumba 340!
Distribution (external)
; Senegal
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Nigeria
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Sudan
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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, (1997) Author: NORDAL (University of Oslo), SHAKKIE KATIVU (University of Zimbabwe) & AXEL D. POULSEN (University of Copenhagen)
Names
CHLOROPHYTUM pusillum Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE], in J.B. 16: 325 (1878) & in F.T.A. 7: 502 (1898); F.P.S. 3: 267 (1956); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 100 (1968). Type: Sudan, Jur [Djur], Schweinfurth 2043 (K, holo.!, B, P, iso.!)
CHLOROPHYTUM micans Engl. & K. Krause [family ANTHERICACEAE], in E.J. 45: 135 (1910). Type: N. Cameroon, Ledermann 4403 (B, holo.!)
Information
Plants small, often in patches, up to 3.5 cm. high. Rhizome not distinct; roots short, ± spongy, with elongated tubers, roots sometimes reduced to sessile or subsessile elongated tuberous structures. Leaves rosulate, ± prostrate, 1–4 to a plant, rarely more, oblanceolate, thinly membranous, glabrous, (2.5–)5–15 cm. long, (1.5–)3–10 cm. wide; margins crisped, in SW. Tanzania a form occurs with red ciliate margins. Peduncle reduced, up to 1(–3) cm. long. Inflorescence unbranched, dense, 2–5 cm. long. Pedicels apparently without articulation, 1–5 mm. long, several at each node. Perianth white; tepals 4–5 mm. long, ± 1 mm. wide, 3-veined. Stamens as long as the perianth; filaments fusiform and papillate, 2.5–5 mm. long, longer than the anthers. Ovary sessile, with ± 5 ovules per locule; style straight, as long as the stamens. Capsule shallowly deltoid, smooth, ± 4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide. Seeds slightly folded, saucer-shaped, ± 1.5 mm. in diameter. Fig. 11/2–5.
Range
DISTR. U 1; T 5–7
Altitude range
1000–1400 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Labwor, 6 June 1940, A.S. Thomas 3721!TANZANIA Dodoma District Rungwa Game Reserve, Sulangi, 10 km. W. of Bagamoyo, 24 Jan. 1969, V.C. Gilbert 3627!;TANZANIA Iringa District 30 km. W. of Iringa, 13 Jan. 1972, A. Bjørnstad 1232! & 24 km. E. of Iringa on Morogoro road, 28 Dec. 1966, Hanid, Hanid & Musumba 340!
Distribution (external)
; Senegal
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Nigeria
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Sudan
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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