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Gisekia pharnaceoides var. pharnaceoides [family MOLLUGINACEAE]

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 522, (1978) Author: M. L. Gonçalves
Names
Gisekia pharnaceoides var. pharnaceoides [family MOLLUGINACEAE] Koelreutera molluginoides Murr. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], Nov. Comm. Götting. 3: 67 (1773). Type from India. Gisekia linearifolia Schumach. & Thonn. apud Schumach. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], [Beskr. Guin. Pl: 167 (1827?)] in Kongel. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Naturvid. Math. Afh. 3: 187 (1828). Type from Ghana. Gisekia pharnaceoides var. congesta Moq. Oliv. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], loc. cit.—Hiern, loc. cit. Type as for Gisekia congesta. Gisekia molluginoides Wight [family MOLLUGINACEAE], Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 7: 162 (1847). Type from India. Gisekia rubella Moq. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], in DC., Prodr. 13, 2: 27 (1849).—Oliv. in F.T.A. 2: 594 (1871).—R. E. Fr., Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 35 (1914).—Hauman in F.C.B. 2: 103 (1951). Type from the Sudan. Gisekia congesta Moq. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], in DC., op. cit.: 28 (1849). Type from Senegambia. Gisekia pharnaceoides var. pedunculata Oliv. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], loc. cit.—Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 420(1898). Type as for Gisekia linearifolia.
Information
Prostrate to procumbent semi-succulent glabrous annual herb with stems up to c. 60 cm. long, sometimes pink-tinged. Leaf-lamina 5–68 × 1–14 mm., of various shapes as in G. africana; petiole 0–4 mm. long. Inflorescences sessile or pedunculate, umbelliform, congested to very lax, often many-flowered. Flowers hermaphrodite, pinkish, greenish or yellowish-white, scentless; pedicels up to c. 9 mm. long. Perianth-segments 5, 1–3 mm. long in fruit, herbaceous, obtuse or subacute. Stamens 5 with filaments slightly broadened below. Carpels S. Fruit blackish, densely covered with warts.
Habitat
Common weed of open woodland, savanna, riverbanks and sand dunes, waste and ruderal places, cultivated land especially on sandy soils.
Range
Widespread from tropical Africa, S. Africa and Mascarene Is. to India and Ceylon
Distribution
Mozambique M Marracuene road, fl. & fr. 10.viii.1964, Marques 8 (COI; LISC; LMU).Mozambique GI Bilene, near Maniquenique, fl. & fr. 10.x.1957, Barbosa & Lemos 7990 (COI; LISC).Mozambique MS Vila Pery, Chimoio, 700 m., fl. & fr. 24.xi.1965, Torre & Correia 13202 (LISC; M; P. WAG).Mozambique Z Namacurra, Licungo riverside, fl. & fr. 28.viii.1949, Barbosa & Carvalho 3867 (LMA).Malawi C road near L. Nyasa Hotel, near Salima, 480m., fl. & fr. 14.ii.1959, Robson 1597 (BM; K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Beitbridge, on banks of Tshilatshokwe R., fl. & fr. 20.iii.1967, Mavi 268 (LISC).Zimbabwe E Umtali, near Feruka Siding, fl. & fr. 30.i.1949, Chase 1220 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Macheke, 1500 m., fl. & fr. xii.1919, Eyles 2012 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Shangani, Gwampa Forest Reserve, 915 m., fl. & fr. vii.1955, Goldsmith 164 (LISC; SRGH).Zambia S Livingstone, fl. & fr. 9.ix.1953, Fanshawe 282 (K; LISC).Zambia C Serenje, fl. & fr. 18.ii.1955, Fanshawe 2089 (K).Zambia N Mbala (Abercorn), Lake Tanganyika beyond Kasakalawa, 700 m., fl. & fr. 8.ii.1964, Richards 18962 (K).Botswana SE Mochudi, fl. & fr. i.1915, Harbor (SRGH).Mozambique N Nampula, fl. & fr. 25.ii.1936, Torre 931 (BR; COI; LISC).Botswana SW 80 km. N. of Kan, fl. & fr. 18.ii.1960, Wild 5067 (K; SRGH).Malawi N Mwanemba, 2440 m., fl. & fr. 2.iii.1903, McClounie 58 (K).Zimbabwe N Gokwe, fl. & fr. 24.iv.1962, Bingham 243 (LISC; SRGH).Zambia B Mongu, fl. & fr. 23.xii.1959, Gilges 766 (SRGH).Botswana N Nata R., 900 m., fl. & fr. 21.iv.1957, Drummond & Seagrief 5151 (LISC; SRGH).
Gisekia pharnaceoides var. pharnaceoides [family MOLLUGINACEAE]
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