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Polygala producta N.E.Br. [family POLYGALACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 303, (1960) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Polygala rehmannii var. parviflora Chod. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève, 31, 2: 362 (1893). Type from the Transvaal (Rehmann 4565). Polygala rehmannii var. gymnoptera Chod. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 48: 321 (1912). Type: Mozambique, Lourenço Marques, Quintas 15 (B †; COI, lectot) Polygala producta N.E.Br. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1895: 142 (1895) emend. Burtt Davy in Kew Bull. 1924: 225 (1924); F.P.F.T. 1: 134 (1926). TAB. 57 fig.2. Type from the Transvaal (Galpin 844 selected by Burtt Davy, loc. cit., 1924).
Information
Shrublet (or sometimes an annual herb ?) up to 1.5 m. tall with slender, minutely crisped-pubescent, slightly winged stems. Leaves 10–30 x 1–5.5 mm., linear to lorate, usually sparsely minutely hairy, somewhat scabrid on the edges and upper surface, rounded or subacute at the apex, and usually mucronate. Flowers pink or purple, pedicels 2.5–3.5 mm. long, in elongated terminal racemes up to 20 cm. long with minutely pubescent or almost glabrous rhachis, small caducous bracts 0.8 mm. long and bracteoles 0.5 mm. long. Posterior sepal 2 mm. long; wing sepals 4.5–5 x 2.5–3 mm., obliquely ovate, glabrous except for minute cilia round the margin; anterior sepals 1.5 mm. long, connate. Upper petals 4 x 2 mm., irregularly obovate-spathulate; carina 4 x 1.8 mm., crest 1.5 mm. long. Stamens 8. Capsule 5 x 4 mm., broadly elliptic, glabrous, marginal wing very narrow. Seeds 3 x 1.8 mm., oblong-elliptic; caruncle 0.8 mm. long, appendages very small or absent.
Habitat
In patches of evergreen forest and in secondary thickets, grassland and abandoned cultivation
Altitude range
from sea-level to about 1300 m. 1300 0
Distribution
Mozambique M Namaacha Falls, fl. & fr. 22.ii.1955, E.M. & W. 539 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Old Bikita, 1310 m., fl. & fr. 16.xii.1953, Wild 4400 (BM; SRGH).Mozambique MS Chimoio, Monte de Belas, fl. & fr. 2.iii.1948, Garcia 466 (BM; LISC).Zimbabwe E Inyanga, Pungwe River Valley, fl. & fr. 17.vii.1948, Chase 844 (BM; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Transvaal
Notes
P. producta can be distinguished from P. rehmannii by its smaller flowers and more elongated racemes. Specimens which appear to be hybrids between these two species have been collected in the Transvaal but in our area, although there is some overlap, P. rehmannii usually occurs at much higher altitudes.

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 303, (1960) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Polygala rehmannii var. parviflora Chod. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève, 31, 2: 362 (1893). Type from the Transvaal (Rehmann 4565). Polygala rehmannii var. gymnoptera Chod. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 48: 321 (1912). Type: Mozambique, Lourenço Marques, Quintas 15 (B †; COI, lectot) Polygala producta N.E.Br. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1895: 142 (1895) emend. Burtt Davy in Kew Bull. 1924: 225 (1924); F.P.F.T. 1: 134 (1926). TAB. 57 fig.2. Type from the Transvaal (Galpin 844 selected by Burtt Davy, loc. cit., 1924).
Information
Shrublet (or sometimes an annual herb ?) up to 1.5 m. tall with slender, minutely crisped-pubescent, slightly winged stems. Leaves 10–30 x 1–5.5 mm., linear to lorate, usually sparsely minutely hairy, somewhat scabrid on the edges and upper surface, rounded or subacute at the apex, and usually mucronate. Flowers pink or purple, pedicels 2.5–3.5 mm. long, in elongated terminal racemes up to 20 cm. long with minutely pubescent or almost glabrous rhachis, small caducous bracts 0.8 mm. long and bracteoles 0.5 mm. long. Posterior sepal 2 mm. long; wing sepals 4.5–5 x 2.5–3 mm., obliquely ovate, glabrous except for minute cilia round the margin; anterior sepals 1.5 mm. long, connate. Upper petals 4 x 2 mm., irregularly obovate-spathulate; carina 4 x 1.8 mm., crest 1.5 mm. long. Stamens 8. Capsule 5 x 4 mm., broadly elliptic, glabrous, marginal wing very narrow. Seeds 3 x 1.8 mm., oblong-elliptic; caruncle 0.8 mm. long, appendages very small or absent.
Habitat
In patches of evergreen forest and in secondary thickets, grassland and abandoned cultivation
Altitude range
from sea-level to about 1300 m. 1300 0
Distribution
Mozambique M Namaacha Falls, fl. & fr. 22.ii.1955, E.M. & W. 539 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Old Bikita, 1310 m., fl. & fr. 16.xii.1953, Wild 4400 (BM; SRGH).Mozambique MS Chimoio, Monte de Belas, fl. & fr. 2.iii.1948, Garcia 466 (BM; LISC).Zimbabwe E Inyanga, Pungwe River Valley, fl. & fr. 17.vii.1948, Chase 844 (BM; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Transvaal
Notes
P. producta can be distinguished from P. rehmannii by its smaller flowers and more elongated racemes. Specimens which appear to be hybrids between these two species have been collected in the Transvaal but in our area, although there is some overlap, P. rehmannii usually occurs at much higher altitudes.

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 303, (1960) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Polygala rehmannii var. parviflora Chod. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève, 31, 2: 362 (1893). Type from the Transvaal (Rehmann 4565). Polygala rehmannii var. gymnoptera Chod. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 48: 321 (1912). Type: Mozambique, Lourenço Marques, Quintas 15 (B †; COI, lectot) Polygala producta N.E.Br. [family POLYGALACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1895: 142 (1895) emend. Burtt Davy in Kew Bull. 1924: 225 (1924); F.P.F.T. 1: 134 (1926). TAB. 57 fig.2. Type from the Transvaal (Galpin 844 selected by Burtt Davy, loc. cit., 1924).
Information
Shrublet (or sometimes an annual herb ?) up to 1.5 m. tall with slender, minutely crisped-pubescent, slightly winged stems. Leaves 10–30 x 1–5.5 mm., linear to lorate, usually sparsely minutely hairy, somewhat scabrid on the edges and upper surface, rounded or subacute at the apex, and usually mucronate. Flowers pink or purple, pedicels 2.5–3.5 mm. long, in elongated terminal racemes up to 20 cm. long with minutely pubescent or almost glabrous rhachis, small caducous bracts 0.8 mm. long and bracteoles 0.5 mm. long. Posterior sepal 2 mm. long; wing sepals 4.5–5 x 2.5–3 mm., obliquely ovate, glabrous except for minute cilia round the margin; anterior sepals 1.5 mm. long, connate. Upper petals 4 x 2 mm., irregularly obovate-spathulate; carina 4 x 1.8 mm., crest 1.5 mm. long. Stamens 8. Capsule 5 x 4 mm., broadly elliptic, glabrous, marginal wing very narrow. Seeds 3 x 1.8 mm., oblong-elliptic; caruncle 0.8 mm. long, appendages very small or absent.
Habitat
In patches of evergreen forest and in secondary thickets, grassland and abandoned cultivation
Altitude range
from sea-level to about 1300 m. 1300 0
Distribution
Mozambique M Namaacha Falls, fl. & fr. 22.ii.1955, E.M. & W. 539 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Old Bikita, 1310 m., fl. & fr. 16.xii.1953, Wild 4400 (BM; SRGH).Mozambique MS Chimoio, Monte de Belas, fl. & fr. 2.iii.1948, Garcia 466 (BM; LISC).Zimbabwe E Inyanga, Pungwe River Valley, fl. & fr. 17.vii.1948, Chase 844 (BM; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Transvaal
Notes
P. producta can be distinguished from P. rehmannii by its smaller flowers and more elongated racemes. Specimens which appear to be hybrids between these two species have been collected in the Transvaal but in our area, although there is some overlap, P. rehmannii usually occurs at much higher altitudes.
Polygala producta N.E.Br. [family POLYGALACEAE]
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