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Dissotis pulchra A. & R. Femandes [family MELASTOMATACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 220, (1978) Author: R. and A. Fernandes
Names
Dissotis pulchra A. & R. Femandes [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 29: 54, t. 8 (1955); in Mem. Soc. Brot. 11: 87 (1956). Type: Melsetter, Chimanimani Mts., Plowes 1216 (COI, holotype; SRGH).
Information
Similar to D. trothae (22), but differing in the looser and shorter indumentum of stems, branches and leaves; in the presence of an under layer of irregular short orange, usually capitate hairs in the indumentum of the inferior leaf surface; in the longer and looser panicles; in the rather shorter usually not divided bristles of the receptacle; and in the fructiferous receptacle not prolonged and only slightly constricted above the capsule.
Habitat
Along streams, sometimes in rock crevices.
Range
Known only in the Chimanimani region.
Distribution
Mozambique MS Valley of Wizards, 1650 m., fl. 29.viii.1964, Whellan 2152 (COI; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Melsetter, “The Comer”, fl. 21.ix.1965, West 6813 (COI; SRGH).

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 220, (1978) Author: R. and A. Fernandes
Names
Dissotis pulchra A. & R. Femandes [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 29: 54, t. 8 (1955); in Mem. Soc. Brot. 11: 87 (1956). Type: Melsetter, Chimanimani Mts., Plowes 1216 (COI, holotype; SRGH).
Information
Similar to D. trothae (22), but differing in the looser and shorter indumentum of stems, branches and leaves; in the presence of an under layer of irregular short orange, usually capitate hairs in the indumentum of the inferior leaf surface; in the longer and looser panicles; in the rather shorter usually not divided bristles of the receptacle; and in the fructiferous receptacle not prolonged and only slightly constricted above the capsule.
Habitat
Along streams, sometimes in rock crevices.
Range
Known only in the Chimanimani region.
Distribution
Mozambique MS Valley of Wizards, 1650 m., fl. 29.viii.1964, Whellan 2152 (COI; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Melsetter, “The Comer”, fl. 21.ix.1965, West 6813 (COI; SRGH).

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 220, (1978) Author: R. and A. Fernandes
Names
Dissotis pulchra A. & R. Femandes [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 29: 54, t. 8 (1955); in Mem. Soc. Brot. 11: 87 (1956). Type: Melsetter, Chimanimani Mts., Plowes 1216 (COI, holotype; SRGH).
Information
Similar to D. trothae (22), but differing in the looser and shorter indumentum of stems, branches and leaves; in the presence of an under layer of irregular short orange, usually capitate hairs in the indumentum of the inferior leaf surface; in the longer and looser panicles; in the rather shorter usually not divided bristles of the receptacle; and in the fructiferous receptacle not prolonged and only slightly constricted above the capsule.
Habitat
Along streams, sometimes in rock crevices.
Range
Known only in the Chimanimani region.
Distribution
Mozambique MS Valley of Wizards, 1650 m., fl. 29.viii.1964, Whellan 2152 (COI; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Melsetter, “The Comer”, fl. 21.ix.1965, West 6813 (COI; SRGH).
Dissotis pulchra A. & R. Femandes [family MELASTOMATACEAE]
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