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Podranea ricasoliana (Tanfani) Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE]
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, (2006) Author: SALLY BIDGOOD, BERNARD VERDCOURT & KAJ VOLLESEN
Names
Podranea ricasoliana (Tanfani) Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE], Port St. John’s Creeper, Zimbabwe creeper
Podranea brycei (N. E. Br.) Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE], in T.T.C.L.: 72 (1949)
Tecoma brycei N. E. Br. [family BIGNONIACEAE], ; Jex-Blake, Gard. in E. Afr. ed. 4: 141 (1957)
Tecoma mackenii W. Wats. [family BIGNONIACEAE], ; Jex-Blake, Gard. in E. Afr. ed. 4: 141 (1957)
Information
Strong-growing climbing shrub to 10 m or more. Leaves imparipinnate with 3–5(–7) pairs of leaflets; tendrils absent; leaflets narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3.5–9≈1.3–2.6 cm. Flowers in few- to many-flowered panicles up to 40 cm long, sweet-scented; calyx campanulate, 0.7–1.5(–2.2) cm long; corolla pale pink or rose with darker red streaks inside, campanulate, 3.5–5(–6.5) cm long, 2–3.5(–5) cm wide at throat, narrowing abruptly to 3–5 mm wide at base; lobes ± round, 1.3–2.8 cm long. Fruit linear, 30–45≈± 1.5 cm; seeds 0.6–1≈± 3 cm including wing. Fig. 2.7–2.10, p. 15.
Range
Native of Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa; has been widely cultivated in East Africa and it is not clear if it may actually have become naturalised in places.
Distribution
and Tanzania: Masai District Ngorongoro, 18 May 1982, Chuwa & Bararea 2428Kand Tanzania: Lushoto District Amani, 4 July 1950, Verdcourt 282and Tanzania: Iringa District Chiwanjo, 18 Aug 1933, Greenway 3574 & Mufindi, Lugoda Estate, 1 April 1988, Bidgood et al 872.Kenya Naivasha District Lake Naivasha, 5 May 1967, S.F. Polhill 217Kenya Nairobi Arboretum, 25 Feb. 1952, G.R. Williams 350Kenya Nairobi, Loreto ridge, 29 Oct. 1973, Gillett 21692
Notes
P. brycei has usually been kept separate from P. ricasoliana (e.g. Diniz in F.Z. 8(3): 79(1988)). Supposedly restricted to South Africa but none of the characters, flower size, exsertion of narrow part of corolla tube and presence or absence of hairs in corolla tube actually holds up. Sandwith long ago on a determination label suggested they were probably the same and it is clear Gentry considered them conspecific.
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, (2006) Author: SALLY BIDGOOD, BERNARD VERDCOURT & KAJ VOLLESEN
Names
Podranea ricasoliana (Tanfani) Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE], Port St. John’s Creeper, Zimbabwe creeper
Podranea brycei (N. E. Br.) Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE], in T.T.C.L.: 72 (1949)
Tecoma brycei N. E. Br. [family BIGNONIACEAE], ; Jex-Blake, Gard. in E. Afr. ed. 4: 141 (1957)
Tecoma mackenii W. Wats. [family BIGNONIACEAE], ; Jex-Blake, Gard. in E. Afr. ed. 4: 141 (1957)
Information
Strong-growing climbing shrub to 10 m or more. Leaves imparipinnate with 3–5(–7) pairs of leaflets; tendrils absent; leaflets narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3.5–9≈1.3–2.6 cm. Flowers in few- to many-flowered panicles up to 40 cm long, sweet-scented; calyx campanulate, 0.7–1.5(–2.2) cm long; corolla pale pink or rose with darker red streaks inside, campanulate, 3.5–5(–6.5) cm long, 2–3.5(–5) cm wide at throat, narrowing abruptly to 3–5 mm wide at base; lobes ± round, 1.3–2.8 cm long. Fruit linear, 30–45≈± 1.5 cm; seeds 0.6–1≈± 3 cm including wing. Fig. 2.7–2.10, p. 15.
Range
Native of Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa; has been widely cultivated in East Africa and it is not clear if it may actually have become naturalised in places.
Distribution
and Tanzania: Masai District Ngorongoro, 18 May 1982, Chuwa & Bararea 2428Kand Tanzania: Lushoto District Amani, 4 July 1950, Verdcourt 282and Tanzania: Iringa District Chiwanjo, 18 Aug 1933, Greenway 3574 & Mufindi, Lugoda Estate, 1 April 1988, Bidgood et al 872.Kenya Naivasha District Lake Naivasha, 5 May 1967, S.F. Polhill 217Kenya Nairobi Arboretum, 25 Feb. 1952, G.R. Williams 350Kenya Nairobi, Loreto ridge, 29 Oct. 1973, Gillett 21692
Notes
P. brycei has usually been kept separate from P. ricasoliana (e.g. Diniz in F.Z. 8(3): 79(1988)). Supposedly restricted to South Africa but none of the characters, flower size, exsertion of narrow part of corolla tube and presence or absence of hairs in corolla tube actually holds up. Sandwith long ago on a determination label suggested they were probably the same and it is clear Gentry considered them conspecific.
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, (2006) Author: SALLY BIDGOOD, BERNARD VERDCOURT & KAJ VOLLESEN
Names
Podranea ricasoliana (Tanfani) Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE], Port St. John’s Creeper, Zimbabwe creeper
Podranea brycei (N. E. Br.) Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE], in T.T.C.L.: 72 (1949)
Tecoma brycei N. E. Br. [family BIGNONIACEAE], ; Jex-Blake, Gard. in E. Afr. ed. 4: 141 (1957)
Tecoma mackenii W. Wats. [family BIGNONIACEAE], ; Jex-Blake, Gard. in E. Afr. ed. 4: 141 (1957)
Information
Strong-growing climbing shrub to 10 m or more. Leaves imparipinnate with 3–5(–7) pairs of leaflets; tendrils absent; leaflets narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3.5–9≈1.3–2.6 cm. Flowers in few- to many-flowered panicles up to 40 cm long, sweet-scented; calyx campanulate, 0.7–1.5(–2.2) cm long; corolla pale pink or rose with darker red streaks inside, campanulate, 3.5–5(–6.5) cm long, 2–3.5(–5) cm wide at throat, narrowing abruptly to 3–5 mm wide at base; lobes ± round, 1.3–2.8 cm long. Fruit linear, 30–45≈± 1.5 cm; seeds 0.6–1≈± 3 cm including wing. Fig. 2.7–2.10, p. 15.
Range
Native of Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa; has been widely cultivated in East Africa and it is not clear if it may actually have become naturalised in places.
Distribution
and Tanzania: Masai District Ngorongoro, 18 May 1982, Chuwa & Bararea 2428Kand Tanzania: Lushoto District Amani, 4 July 1950, Verdcourt 282and Tanzania: Iringa District Chiwanjo, 18 Aug 1933, Greenway 3574 & Mufindi, Lugoda Estate, 1 April 1988, Bidgood et al 872.Kenya Naivasha District Lake Naivasha, 5 May 1967, S.F. Polhill 217Kenya Nairobi Arboretum, 25 Feb. 1952, G.R. Williams 350Kenya Nairobi, Loreto ridge, 29 Oct. 1973, Gillett 21692
Notes
P. brycei has usually been kept separate from P. ricasoliana (e.g. Diniz in F.Z. 8(3): 79(1988)). Supposedly restricted to South Africa but none of the characters, flower size, exsertion of narrow part of corolla tube and presence or absence of hairs in corolla tube actually holds up. Sandwith long ago on a determination label suggested they were probably the same and it is clear Gentry considered them conspecific.
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