Notes

This subspecies, curiously, has been found far inland at Mpika in Zambia and by Lake Malawi [Nyasa] at Nkata and Monkey Bays, a rather strange distribution for such a very characteristic littoral shrub. The Mpika plant is stated to be a tree to 6 m. and the Lake Malawi specimens are shrubs or trees 2.4–6 m. tall; there does not, however, seem to be any reason for separating them as a distinct taxon. Neither does there seem to be any valid reason for separating T. fryeri; those given by Bremekamp are highly technical and minute differences in the putamen structure. Hemsley himself later annotated the specimens he had originally called Psathura fryeri as Triainolepis hildebrandtii. The “cordons” which Bremekamp claims to be characteristic of T. fryeri and T. africana can also be found in some specimens of undoubted T. hildebrandtii.