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Adenodolichos punctatus subsp. bussei Harms Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 5, (2001) Author: B. Mackinder, R. Pasquet, R. Polhill and B. Verdcourt
Names
Adenodolichos punctatus subsp. bussei Harms Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 25: 67 (1971); in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 706 (1971). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 387 (1989). TAB. 3.5.47. Type from southern Tanzania. Dolichos adenophorus Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 30: 333 (1901). Type from southern Tanzania (type destroyed and synonymy ex descript.). Adenodolichos adenophorus Harms Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 180 (1902). Adenodolichos bussei Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 180 (1902). Adenophorus harmsianus var. acutifoliolatus Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Legum. Trop. Africa: 457 (1929). Type from Dem. Rep. Congo (Katanga Prov.). Adenodolichos punctatus [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu Brenan in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8: 420 (1954), non (Micheli) Harms sensu stricto.
Information
Always flowering at apices of leafy shoots so far as is known. Leaflets densely pubescent to velvety beneath. Flowers mostly white. Pods often larger, up to 5.7 cm long.
Habitat
Brachystegia woodland including wooded lakeside slopes, woodland edges and stream banks, old garden sites (i.e. native cultivations).
Distribution
Malawi S Zomba, 5.ii.1955, G. Jackson 1463 (K).Malawi C Nkhotakota Distr., Chia area, fr. 3.ix.1946, Brass 17507 (K; NY).Mozambique N Marrupa, environs of the town, close to dry river bed, fl. 11.ii.1981, Nuvunga 506 (K; LMU).Malawi N Nkhata Bay Distr., ridge above Chikale Beach, fl. 27.iv.1970, Pawek 3460 (K).Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., base of Kalene Hill, fl. & fr. 22.ii.1975, Hooper & Townsend 326 (K) (see note).
Distribution (external)
Angola Dem. Rep. Congo southern Tanzania
Notes
Hooper & Townsend 326 and E.A. Robinson 604 from the same locality have more narrowly acute leaflets than any other material of the species. Jackson states that stems are burnt off each year. It seems clear that in this subspecies precocious inflorescences from the rootstock are not produced. Wilczek determined Gomes e Sousa 1110 (Mozambique, N, Massangulo, i.1933) as Adenocarpus cf. harmsianus.
Adenodolichos punctatus subsp. bussei Harms Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
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