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Micrargeria filiformis Schum. & Thonn. Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 2, (1990) Author: D. Philcox
Names
Micrargeria filiformis Schum. & Thonn. Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in F.W.T.A. 2: 223 (1931). —Hepper in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 366 (1963). TAB.50. Type from Guinea. Gerardia filiformis Schum. & Thonn. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 272 (1827). Type as above. Sopubia filiformis Schum. & Thonn. G. Don [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Gen. Syst. 4: 560 (1837). —Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 772 (1898) nom. illegit. Gerardianella scopiformis Klotzsch [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb., Bot.: 229, t. 36 (1861). Type: Mozambique, Querimba, Peters s.n. (B†). Sopubia scopiformis Klotzsch Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Linnaea 43: 313 (1882). Type as above. Micrargeria scopiformis Klotzsch Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 359 (1895). —Hemsl. & Skan in F.T.A. 4, 2: 457 (1906). Type as above.
Information
Slender herb, 35–80 cm. tall; stem much-branched above rarely simple; minutely scabrid on all vegetative parts. Leaves opposite, 0.75–3.5(5) x 0.5–1.25 mm., filiform to narrowly linear, erect to spreading, strict to somewhat flexuous. Flowers usually opposite, in open racemes, each subtended by a reduced leaf-like bract, pedicellate, bi-bracteolate. Pedicels 2–4 mm. long. Bracteoles 1.3–3.2 mm. long, narrowly linear to subulate. Calyx 2.5–4.5 mm. long, lobes 0.8–1.4 mm. long, broadly deltate. Corolla 8.5–12 mm. long, campanulate, pinkish-white, lilac to reddish-purple, externally pubescent, narrowed at base into short tube, lobes rounded, finely ciliate. Anther thecae subequal. Capsule 2.5–3.5 x 2.8–3.5 mm., subglobose, slightly longitudinally compressed, glabrous, dark brown to black.
Habitat
Swamps and damp areas
Altitude range
from 490–1800 m. 1800 490
Distribution
Zambia S Siamnsunda, 1.6 km. E. Mapanza, 1066 m., fl. & fr. 4.iv.1954, Robinson 654 (K; SRGH).Zambia C Chiwefwe, fl. & fr. 1.v.1957, Fanshawe 3241 (BR; K; SRGH).Mozambique N between Cuamba and Mutuali, near bridge over Rio Lurio, fl. & fr. 24.iv.1961, Balsinhas & Marrime 428 (BM; K, LISC).Malawi N Lower Plateau, N. Lake Malawi (Nyassa), fl. & fr. x.1880, Thomson s.n. (K).Zimbabwe N Shamva Distr., c. 12 km. from Shamva road towards Nyagui R., 900 m., fl. & fr. 29.iii.1981, Philcox & Drummond 9056 (K; P; SRGH).Zambia N Kaputa Distr., 24 km. SW. Bulaya, 1150 m., fl. & fr. 19.iv.1961, Phipps & Vesey-FitzGerald 3304 (K; SRGH).Mozambique Z Quelimane Distr., Mocuba, Namagoa, fl. & fr. ix.1946, Faulkner 59 (BM; COI; K; SRGH).Malawi S Liwonde Nat. Park, fl.28.xii.1985, Dudley 1802 (K).Malawi C 6 km. N. Nkhota Kota, 490 m., fl. & fr. 16.vi.1970, Brummitt 11443 (K).Zimbabwe S Masvingo Distr., fl. & fr. 17.iv.1946, Greatrex in GHS 14776 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Mutare Distr., 800 m., fl. & fr. 18.iii.1954, Chase 5208 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Harare Distr., Cranbourne, fl. & fr. 31.iii.1946, Wild 1023 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Matobo Distr., 1460 m., fl. & fr. 28.iii.1963, Miller 8420 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
West Africa Sudan East Africa Angola
Micrargeria filiformis Schum. & Thonn. Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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