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Canthium oligocarpum subsp. angustifolium Bridson [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
Canthium oligocarpum subsp. angustifolium Bridson [family RUBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 47: 389 (1992). Type: Zimbabwe, Chimanimani Distr., Muchira River, 1.5 km west of Glencoe Forest House, Goldsmith 76/69 (K, holotype; PRE; SRGH). Canthium captum [family RUBIACEAE], sensu Drummond in Kirkia 10: 276 (1975). —sensu K. Coates Palgrave, Trees Southern Africa, ed. 3, rev.: 879 (1988), non Bullock.
Information
Leaf blades 3.5–7.5 × 1.3–2.5 cm, narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong-elliptic, papery to chartaceous, usually dull above; lateral nerves in (4)5(6) main pairs, not impressed above.
Habitat
In mixed evergreen rainforest, often in ravines
Range
Not known outside the Flora Zambesiaca area
Altitude range
1200–2000 m. 2000 1200
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., along path between Skeleton Pass and Namadima, young fr. 30.ii.1959, Goodier & Phipps 359 (K; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Nyanga Distr., from Henkel's Nek across the Nyumkombe to iNyamariro Forest Patch, fr. 1934, Gilliland Q763 (K).
Notes
Three additional subspecies have been described: subsp. friesiorum Bridson, restricted to central Kenya, characterised by acute to obtuse leaf apicies; subsp. intermedium Bridson restricted to the Kenya/Tanzania border, characterised by pale greyish bark; and subsp. oligocarpum extending from Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and eastern Zaire (Dem. Rep. Congo) south to Tanzania, resembling subsp. captum but differing in having thinner leaves with fewer lateral nerves, and inflorescences with more flowers.
Canthium oligocarpum subsp. angustifolium Bridson [family RUBIACEAE]
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