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Tapiphyllum molle Robyns [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 2, (1998) Author: D. Bridson
Names
Tapiphyllum molle Robyns [family RUBIACEAE], in J. Bot. 69: 186 (1931); in Bull. Jard. Bot. État 32: 136 (1962). Type from Angola.
Information
Suffrutex, unbranched; stems numerous about 1.2–1.5 m tall, densely pale ferruginous-velvety hairy, becoming less so with age.Leaves up to 12, appearing falsely verticillate due to congestion of 3 lateral branches at each node, but leaves actually paired; 1.5–8 × 0.3–1.2 cm, oblong-lanceolate, acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, discolorous, velvety-hairy with pale ferruginous hairs above, densely white velvety-woolly beneath; stipules connate, 3 mm long with appendix 5–6(10) mm long; petiole c. 3 mm long.Inflorescences congested in the axils forming contiguous verticils, densely velvety-hairy, many-flowered; peduncle up to 3 mm long; pedicels ± obsolete; bracts 6 mm long, linear.Calyx tube 2 mm long, subglobose, densely hairy; lobes 5 mm long, linear, ± obtuse.Corolla shortly apiculate in bud; pale greenish outside, white inside; tube 4.5–5 mm long, cylindrical, white-velvety outside and densely hairy at the throat and with a ring of deflexed hairs inside towards the base; lobes 3.5 × 1.5 mm, ± lanceolate with an appendage 2 mm long.Style scarcely exserted; pollen presenter cylindrical, ± sulcate, 5-lobulate at the apex.Fruit not seen (see below).
Habitat
Julbernardia–Brachystegia woodland on Kalahari Sand, with Gardenia, Lannea and Diplorhynchus
Altitude range
1120 m.
1120
1120
Distribution
Zambia B Kaoma (Mankoya), 18.x.1964, Fanshawe 8980 (K; NDO).
Distribution (external)
Angola
Notes
Fanshawe refers to an unbranched shrub but I assume he means unbranched stems from a multiheaded woody rootstock, as described by Gossweiler in his collector’s notes of the type specimen. Several specimens from NW Zambia (e.g. Milne-Redhead 3899; 3929, Brummitt et al. 14069) have been provisionally included in this taxon pending a fuller investigation. The fruits of these specimens ripen to orange, are c. 10 mm in diameter and glabrescent.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 5, Part 2, (1998) Author: D. Bridson
Names
Tapiphyllum molle Robyns [family RUBIACEAE], in J. Bot. 69: 186 (1931); in Bull. Jard. Bot. État 32: 136 (1962). Type from Angola.
Information
Suffrutex, unbranched; stems numerous about 1.2–1.5 m tall, densely pale ferruginous-velvety hairy, becoming less so with age.Leaves up to 12, appearing falsely verticillate due to congestion of 3 lateral branches at each node, but leaves actually paired; 1.5–8 × 0.3–1.2 cm, oblong-lanceolate, acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, discolorous, velvety-hairy with pale ferruginous hairs above, densely white velvety-woolly beneath; stipules connate, 3 mm long with appendix 5–6(10) mm long; petiole c. 3 mm long.Inflorescences congested in the axils forming contiguous verticils, densely velvety-hairy, many-flowered; peduncle up to 3 mm long; pedicels ± obsolete; bracts 6 mm long, linear.Calyx tube 2 mm long, subglobose, densely hairy; lobes 5 mm long, linear, ± obtuse.Corolla shortly apiculate in bud; pale greenish outside, white inside; tube 4.5–5 mm long, cylindrical, white-velvety outside and densely hairy at the throat and with a ring of deflexed hairs inside towards the base; lobes 3.5 × 1.5 mm, ± lanceolate with an appendage 2 mm long.Style scarcely exserted; pollen presenter cylindrical, ± sulcate, 5-lobulate at the apex.Fruit not seen (see below).
Habitat
Julbernardia–Brachystegia woodland on Kalahari Sand, with Gardenia, Lannea and Diplorhynchus
Altitude range
1120 m.
1120
1120
Distribution
Zambia B Kaoma (Mankoya), 18.x.1964, Fanshawe 8980 (K; NDO).
Distribution (external)
Angola
Notes
Fanshawe refers to an unbranched shrub but I assume he means unbranched stems from a multiheaded woody rootstock, as described by Gossweiler in his collector’s notes of the type specimen. Several specimens from NW Zambia (e.g. Milne-Redhead 3899; 3929, Brummitt et al. 14069) have been provisionally included in this taxon pending a fuller investigation. The fruits of these specimens ripen to orange, are c. 10 mm in diameter and glabrescent.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 5, Part 2, (1998) Author: D. Bridson
Names
Tapiphyllum molle Robyns [family RUBIACEAE], in J. Bot. 69: 186 (1931); in Bull. Jard. Bot. État 32: 136 (1962). Type from Angola.
Information
Suffrutex, unbranched; stems numerous about 1.2–1.5 m tall, densely pale ferruginous-velvety hairy, becoming less so with age.Leaves up to 12, appearing falsely verticillate due to congestion of 3 lateral branches at each node, but leaves actually paired; 1.5–8 × 0.3–1.2 cm, oblong-lanceolate, acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, discolorous, velvety-hairy with pale ferruginous hairs above, densely white velvety-woolly beneath; stipules connate, 3 mm long with appendix 5–6(10) mm long; petiole c. 3 mm long.Inflorescences congested in the axils forming contiguous verticils, densely velvety-hairy, many-flowered; peduncle up to 3 mm long; pedicels ± obsolete; bracts 6 mm long, linear.Calyx tube 2 mm long, subglobose, densely hairy; lobes 5 mm long, linear, ± obtuse.Corolla shortly apiculate in bud; pale greenish outside, white inside; tube 4.5–5 mm long, cylindrical, white-velvety outside and densely hairy at the throat and with a ring of deflexed hairs inside towards the base; lobes 3.5 × 1.5 mm, ± lanceolate with an appendage 2 mm long.Style scarcely exserted; pollen presenter cylindrical, ± sulcate, 5-lobulate at the apex.Fruit not seen (see below).
Habitat
Julbernardia–Brachystegia woodland on Kalahari Sand, with Gardenia, Lannea and Diplorhynchus
Altitude range
1120 m.
1120
1120
Distribution
Zambia B Kaoma (Mankoya), 18.x.1964, Fanshawe 8980 (K; NDO).
Distribution (external)
Angola
Notes
Fanshawe refers to an unbranched shrub but I assume he means unbranched stems from a multiheaded woody rootstock, as described by Gossweiler in his collector’s notes of the type specimen. Several specimens from NW Zambia (e.g. Milne-Redhead 3899; 3929, Brummitt et al. 14069) have been provisionally included in this taxon pending a fuller investigation. The fruits of these specimens ripen to orange, are c. 10 mm in diameter and glabrescent.
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