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Galopina circaeoides Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 5, Part 1, (1989) Author: B. Verdcourt
Names
Galopina circaeoides Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE], Nov. Gen. Pl.1: 3 (1781).—Cruse, Rub. Cap.: 18 (1825).—Sond. in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 3: 26 (1865).—Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 454 (1954).—Puff in Fl. Southern Afr.31, 1(2): 48 (1986); in Pl. Syst. Evol., Suppl. 3: 430 (1986). TAB.35. Type from S. Africa. Galopina circaeoides var. glabra Kuntze [family RUBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 3, 2: 120 (1898). Type from S. Africa. Galopina circaeoides var. pubescens Kuntze [family RUBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. 3, 2: 120 (1898). Type from S. Africa. Anthospermum galopina Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE], Prodr. 1: 32 (1794). Type as for G. circaeoides. Phyllis galopina Thunb. Cruse [family RUBIACEAE], in Linnaea 6: 20 (1831).
Information
Several- to many-stemmed perennial herb. Stems 0.3–0.8(1.2) m. long, ascending to erect or occasionally decumbent and rooting at nodes, glabrous or sometimes sparsely hairy; often with much-contracted short shoots bearing small leaves. Leaf blades (30)40–70(90) x (8)10–25(30) mm., ± lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, narrowed to base, acute at apex, glabrous or with some short whitish spreading hairs; petioles 3–10(14) mm. long; stipular sheath with 3 or 5(7) setae, free portion of the longest 4–8 mm. Inflorescence broadly pyramidal to ± spheroidal, lax, 12–30 x (8)10–28 cm.; peduncles and pedicels filiform, slender, glabrous, strongly divergent in fruit, elongating to (7)12–25(35) mm. Corolla whitish, creamy white, yellowish or greenish, occasionally reddish purplish tinged outside, glabrous or papillate. Hermaphrodite, male tube 0.3–0.5 mm. long, lobes 1.2–1.8 x 0.4–0.6 mm.; anthers 1.1–1.6 mm. long. Female: tube 0–0.3 mm. long, lobes 0.6–0.8(1) x 0.1–0.3 mm.; stigmas (2.5)3–5(6.5) mm. long; ovary 0.5–1 x (0.5)0.8–1.3 mm., ± densely warty. Fruit blackish to black; each mericarp 1.5–2 x (0.7)1–1.4 mm., oblong to ± obovate, ± densely warty.
Habitat
Forest or scrub, often in ± shady and damp to wet places
Altitude range
(300)1000–2100 m. 2100 1000
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Mutare Distr., Engwa, fl. 3.ii.1955, Exell, Mendonça & Wild 148 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Mozambique MS Manica, Macequece, E. Vumba Mts., fl. & fr. 18.iii.1948, Barbosa 1193 (LISC).Malawi S Zomba Plateau, fl. 7.vi.1946, Brass 16295 (K; MO; SRGH; US).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 5, Part 1, (1989) Author: B. Verdcourt
Names
Galopina circaeoides Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE], Nov. Gen. Pl.1: 3 (1781).—Cruse, Rub. Cap.: 18 (1825).—Sond. in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 3: 26 (1865).—Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 454 (1954).—Puff in Fl. Southern Afr.31, 1(2): 48 (1986); in Pl. Syst. Evol., Suppl. 3: 430 (1986). TAB.35. Type from S. Africa. Galopina circaeoides var. glabra Kuntze [family RUBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 3, 2: 120 (1898). Type from S. Africa. Galopina circaeoides var. pubescens Kuntze [family RUBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. 3, 2: 120 (1898). Type from S. Africa. Anthospermum galopina Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE], Prodr. 1: 32 (1794). Type as for G. circaeoides. Phyllis galopina Thunb. Cruse [family RUBIACEAE], in Linnaea 6: 20 (1831).
Information
Several- to many-stemmed perennial herb. Stems 0.3–0.8(1.2) m. long, ascending to erect or occasionally decumbent and rooting at nodes, glabrous or sometimes sparsely hairy; often with much-contracted short shoots bearing small leaves. Leaf blades (30)40–70(90) x (8)10–25(30) mm., ± lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, narrowed to base, acute at apex, glabrous or with some short whitish spreading hairs; petioles 3–10(14) mm. long; stipular sheath with 3 or 5(7) setae, free portion of the longest 4–8 mm. Inflorescence broadly pyramidal to ± spheroidal, lax, 12–30 x (8)10–28 cm.; peduncles and pedicels filiform, slender, glabrous, strongly divergent in fruit, elongating to (7)12–25(35) mm. Corolla whitish, creamy white, yellowish or greenish, occasionally reddish purplish tinged outside, glabrous or papillate. Hermaphrodite, male tube 0.3–0.5 mm. long, lobes 1.2–1.8 x 0.4–0.6 mm.; anthers 1.1–1.6 mm. long. Female: tube 0–0.3 mm. long, lobes 0.6–0.8(1) x 0.1–0.3 mm.; stigmas (2.5)3–5(6.5) mm. long; ovary 0.5–1 x (0.5)0.8–1.3 mm., ± densely warty. Fruit blackish to black; each mericarp 1.5–2 x (0.7)1–1.4 mm., oblong to ± obovate, ± densely warty.
Habitat
Forest or scrub, often in ± shady and damp to wet places
Altitude range
(300)1000–2100 m. 2100 1000
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Mutare Distr., Engwa, fl. 3.ii.1955, Exell, Mendonça & Wild 148 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Mozambique MS Manica, Macequece, E. Vumba Mts., fl. & fr. 18.iii.1948, Barbosa 1193 (LISC).Malawi S Zomba Plateau, fl. 7.vi.1946, Brass 16295 (K; MO; SRGH; US).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 5, Part 1, (1989) Author: B. Verdcourt
Names
Galopina circaeoides Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE], Nov. Gen. Pl.1: 3 (1781).—Cruse, Rub. Cap.: 18 (1825).—Sond. in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 3: 26 (1865).—Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 454 (1954).—Puff in Fl. Southern Afr.31, 1(2): 48 (1986); in Pl. Syst. Evol., Suppl. 3: 430 (1986). TAB.35. Type from S. Africa. Galopina circaeoides var. glabra Kuntze [family RUBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 3, 2: 120 (1898). Type from S. Africa. Galopina circaeoides var. pubescens Kuntze [family RUBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. 3, 2: 120 (1898). Type from S. Africa. Anthospermum galopina Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE], Prodr. 1: 32 (1794). Type as for G. circaeoides. Phyllis galopina Thunb. Cruse [family RUBIACEAE], in Linnaea 6: 20 (1831).
Information
Several- to many-stemmed perennial herb. Stems 0.3–0.8(1.2) m. long, ascending to erect or occasionally decumbent and rooting at nodes, glabrous or sometimes sparsely hairy; often with much-contracted short shoots bearing small leaves. Leaf blades (30)40–70(90) x (8)10–25(30) mm., ± lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, narrowed to base, acute at apex, glabrous or with some short whitish spreading hairs; petioles 3–10(14) mm. long; stipular sheath with 3 or 5(7) setae, free portion of the longest 4–8 mm. Inflorescence broadly pyramidal to ± spheroidal, lax, 12–30 x (8)10–28 cm.; peduncles and pedicels filiform, slender, glabrous, strongly divergent in fruit, elongating to (7)12–25(35) mm. Corolla whitish, creamy white, yellowish or greenish, occasionally reddish purplish tinged outside, glabrous or papillate. Hermaphrodite, male tube 0.3–0.5 mm. long, lobes 1.2–1.8 x 0.4–0.6 mm.; anthers 1.1–1.6 mm. long. Female: tube 0–0.3 mm. long, lobes 0.6–0.8(1) x 0.1–0.3 mm.; stigmas (2.5)3–5(6.5) mm. long; ovary 0.5–1 x (0.5)0.8–1.3 mm., ± densely warty. Fruit blackish to black; each mericarp 1.5–2 x (0.7)1–1.4 mm., oblong to ± obovate, ± densely warty.
Habitat
Forest or scrub, often in ± shady and damp to wet places
Altitude range
(300)1000–2100 m. 2100 1000
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Mutare Distr., Engwa, fl. 3.ii.1955, Exell, Mendonça & Wild 148 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Mozambique MS Manica, Macequece, E. Vumba Mts., fl. & fr. 18.iii.1948, Barbosa 1193 (LISC).Malawi S Zomba Plateau, fl. 7.vi.1946, Brass 16295 (K; MO; SRGH; US).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
Galopina circaeoides Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE]
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