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Micrargeria filiformis (Schum. & Thonn.) Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]

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, (2008) Author: S.A. GHAZANFAR, F.N. HEPPER & D. PHILCOX
Names
Micrargeria filiformis (Schum. & Thonn.) Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in F.W.T.A. 2: 223 (1931); Hepper in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 366 (1963); Philcox in F.Z. 8(2): 151, t. 50 (1990); U.K.W.F.: 259 (1994). Type: Ghana, Pramforam and Ningo, Thonning 366 (C, syn.; P isosyn.) Gerardia filiformis Schum. & Thonn. [family ], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 272 (1827) Sopubia filiformis (Schum. & Thonn.) G.Don [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Gen. Syst. 4: 560 (1837) Sopubia filiformis Hiern [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 776 (1898) non (Schum. & Thonn.) G.Don., nom. illegit . Type: Angola, Huilla–Morino, de Morro de Momino, Welwitsch 5830 (LISC, syn.; BM, isosyn.) and Lopollo, Welwitsch 5831 (LISC, syn.; BM, isosyn.) Gerardianella scopiformis Klotzsch [family ], in Peters, Reise Mossamb., Bot.: 229, t. 36 (1861). Type: Mozambique, Querimba, Peters s.n. (B†, holo.) Sopubia scopiformis (Klotzsch) Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Linnaea 43: 313 (1882) Micrargeria scopiformis (Klotzsch) Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], P.O.A. C. 359 (1895); Hemsl. & Skan in F.T.A. 4(2): 457 (1906)
Information
Slender herb, 35–80 cm tall; stem much-branched above, rarely simple, minutely scabrid. Leaves opposite, sessile, filiform to narrowly linear, 0.7–3.5(­–5) mm long, 0.5–1.3 mm wide, margins entire, erect to spreading. Inflorescence of open racemes; flowers subtended by reduced leaf-like bracts; bracteoles 2, linear to subulate, 1.3–3.2 mm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long. Calyx 2.5–4.5 mm long; lobes broadly deltate, 0.8–1.4 mm long. Corolla yellow with purple centre, pinkish-white or lilac to reddish-purple, campanulate, 8.5–12 mm long, narrowed at base into a short tube; tube whitish; lobes rounded, externally pubescent, finely ciliate. Filaments reddish purple; anther thecae subequal. Capsule dark brown to black, subglobose, 2.5–3.5 long, 2.8–3.5 mm in diameter, slightly longitudinally compressed, glabrous. Fig. 48, p. 188.
Range
DISTR. U 3, 4; K 3, 7; T 3–8; ?Z
Altitude range
0–2000 m
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Darrads farm, Oct. 1967, Tweedie 3497!KENYA Kwale District N of Kwale, 13 Aug. 1937, Greenway 4963!KENYA Lamu coast, 6 Oct. 1947, Joy Adamson in Bally B 6141!TANZANIA Tanga District Msubugwe Forest Reserve, 12 Sept. 1955, Tanner 2202TANZANIA Singida District 40 km from Sekenke on the Singida road, 1 May 1962, Polhill & Paulo 2268!TANZANIA Rufiji District Mafia Is., 2 Apr. 1933, Wallace 701!UGANDA Mt Elgon N, Kapchorwa, 7 Sept. 1954, Lind 472!UGANDA Bunyoro/Mubende District Ngusi R., April 1906, Bagshawe 964!UGANDA Masaka District 4–5 km N of Lake Nabugabo, 17 April 1969, Lye 2555!
Distribution (external)
Sudan Angola Zambia Malawi Mozambique Zimbabwe Madagascar
Notes
USES. None recorded from our area. CONSERVATION Least Concern (LC); widespread and common. Recorded to occur in Zanzibar, but I (S.A.G.) have not seen any material from there.
Micrargeria filiformis (Schum. & Thonn.) Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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