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Galium bussei K. Schum. & K. Krause [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
Galium bussei K. Schum. & K. Krause [family RUBIACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb.39: 571 (1907).—Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 456 (1954).—Verdc. in F.T.E.A., Rubiaceae 1: 399 (1976).—Puff in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 44: 246 (1978).—Gonçalves in Garcia de Orta, Sér. Boot. 5: 192 (1982). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Perennial with a somewhat woody rootstock. Stems erect or semi-erect, (15)25–60(70) cm. long, with usually few ± short lateral branches, the 4 distinct, often whitish angles with short ± spreading hairs or glabrous; nodes usually hairy to densely hairy. Leaves in whorls of (5)6–10,1-nerved, (10)15–30(40) x 0.5–1.5(2.5) mm., linear to linear-oblanceolate, often apparently terete due to strongly recurved margins, with a distinct, filiform brownish acumen at apex; upper and lower surface with short, ± spreading hairs, glabrous or with minute, forwardly directed prickles above. Inflorescence broadly pyramidal to ± narrowly cylindrical, cymes many-flowered and dense to rather few-flowered and lax, ultimate branches with (0)1–4 minute bracts; pedicels 1–3(6) mm. long, ± filiform, glabrous, strongly divaricate in fruit Corolla 2–3(4) mm. in diam., rotate, glabrous, yellow, pale yellow or greenish-yellow; lobes longer than wide, ± acuminate; stamens ± half as long as lobes; ovary c. 0.4–0.8 mm. long. Fruit glabrous, ± granulated; mericarps subglobose, each 1.5–2 mm. in diam.
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
Galium bussei K. Schum. & K. Krause [family RUBIACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb.39: 571 (1907).—Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 456 (1954).—Verdc. in F.T.E.A., Rubiaceae 1: 399 (1976).—Puff in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 44: 246 (1978).—Gonçalves in Garcia de Orta, Sér. Boot. 5: 192 (1982). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Perennial with a somewhat woody rootstock. Stems erect or semi-erect, (15)25–60(70) cm. long, with usually few ± short lateral branches, the 4 distinct, often whitish angles with short ± spreading hairs or glabrous; nodes usually hairy to densely hairy. Leaves in whorls of (5)6–10,1-nerved, (10)15–30(40) x 0.5–1.5(2.5) mm., linear to linear-oblanceolate, often apparently terete due to strongly recurved margins, with a distinct, filiform brownish acumen at apex; upper and lower surface with short, ± spreading hairs, glabrous or with minute, forwardly directed prickles above. Inflorescence broadly pyramidal to ± narrowly cylindrical, cymes many-flowered and dense to rather few-flowered and lax, ultimate branches with (0)1–4 minute bracts; pedicels 1–3(6) mm. long, ± filiform, glabrous, strongly divaricate in fruit Corolla 2–3(4) mm. in diam., rotate, glabrous, yellow, pale yellow or greenish-yellow; lobes longer than wide, ± acuminate; stamens ± half as long as lobes; ovary c. 0.4–0.8 mm. long. Fruit glabrous, ± granulated; mericarps subglobose, each 1.5–2 mm. in diam.
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
Galium bussei K. Schum. & K. Krause [family RUBIACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb.39: 571 (1907).—Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 456 (1954).—Verdc. in F.T.E.A., Rubiaceae 1: 399 (1976).—Puff in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 44: 246 (1978).—Gonçalves in Garcia de Orta, Sér. Boot. 5: 192 (1982). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Perennial with a somewhat woody rootstock. Stems erect or semi-erect, (15)25–60(70) cm. long, with usually few ± short lateral branches, the 4 distinct, often whitish angles with short ± spreading hairs or glabrous; nodes usually hairy to densely hairy. Leaves in whorls of (5)6–10,1-nerved, (10)15–30(40) x 0.5–1.5(2.5) mm., linear to linear-oblanceolate, often apparently terete due to strongly recurved margins, with a distinct, filiform brownish acumen at apex; upper and lower surface with short, ± spreading hairs, glabrous or with minute, forwardly directed prickles above. Inflorescence broadly pyramidal to ± narrowly cylindrical, cymes many-flowered and dense to rather few-flowered and lax, ultimate branches with (0)1–4 minute bracts; pedicels 1–3(6) mm. long, ± filiform, glabrous, strongly divaricate in fruit Corolla 2–3(4) mm. in diam., rotate, glabrous, yellow, pale yellow or greenish-yellow; lobes longer than wide, ± acuminate; stamens ± half as long as lobes; ovary c. 0.4–0.8 mm. long. Fruit glabrous, ± granulated; mericarps subglobose, each 1.5–2 mm. in diam.
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