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Bridelia cathartica subsp. cathartica [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Bridelia cathartica subsp. cathartica [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Bridelia schlechteri Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1914: 249 (1914); in F.C. 5, 2: 380 (1915). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas 3, 2: 43 (1921). Type: Mozambique, “Inyamasan”, female fl. & y. fr. 21.i.1898, Schlechter 12065 (K, holotype; BR).
Information
Leaf blades rarely exceeding 6 cm in length on younger shoots, glaucous beneath and usually drying greyish-brown; lateral nerves in up to 14 pairs, craspedodromous, closely parallel.
Habitat
On sandy soil and dunes, in coastal bush, littoral scrub and dune woodland and forest, also in secondary forest and old cultivations
Altitude range
2–90(345) m
90
2
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, Manhiça, Vila de Incomáti, male fl. 26.iii.1979, de Koning 7372 (BM; K; LMU; MO).Mozambique GI Xai-Xai (Vila de João Belo), fr. 9.vi.1960, Lemos & Balsinhas in Lemos 42 (K; LISC; LMA; PRE).Mozambique MS Beira, female fl. & y. fr. 25.ii.1912, Rogers 4551 (BM; K).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
Notes
Vernacular names as recorded in specimen data include: “catchangate” (Muchopes); “mbalatangati” (Changane); “m’batelo” (Inhambane area); “mun(u)angati” (xiRonga); “munangati”, “nunangade”, “thlath-langati” (Landim).Intermediates between this and the following subspecies from Maputo Province are: Mrs Moss J28389 (PRE),from Inhaca (in fruit), & J28385 (PRE) from Maputo (in fruit), and Junod 510 (LISC; PRE) from Ricatla (female fl.).
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Bridelia cathartica subsp. cathartica [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Bridelia schlechteri Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1914: 249 (1914); in F.C. 5, 2: 380 (1915). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas 3, 2: 43 (1921). Type: Mozambique, “Inyamasan”, female fl. & y. fr. 21.i.1898, Schlechter 12065 (K, holotype; BR).
Information
Leaf blades rarely exceeding 6 cm in length on younger shoots, glaucous beneath and usually drying greyish-brown; lateral nerves in up to 14 pairs, craspedodromous, closely parallel.
Habitat
On sandy soil and dunes, in coastal bush, littoral scrub and dune woodland and forest, also in secondary forest and old cultivations
Altitude range
2–90(345) m
90
2
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, Manhiça, Vila de Incomáti, male fl. 26.iii.1979, de Koning 7372 (BM; K; LMU; MO).Mozambique GI Xai-Xai (Vila de João Belo), fr. 9.vi.1960, Lemos & Balsinhas in Lemos 42 (K; LISC; LMA; PRE).Mozambique MS Beira, female fl. & y. fr. 25.ii.1912, Rogers 4551 (BM; K).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
Notes
Vernacular names as recorded in specimen data include: “catchangate” (Muchopes); “mbalatangati” (Changane); “m’batelo” (Inhambane area); “mun(u)angati” (xiRonga); “munangati”, “nunangade”, “thlath-langati” (Landim).Intermediates between this and the following subspecies from Maputo Province are: Mrs Moss J28389 (PRE),from Inhaca (in fruit), & J28385 (PRE) from Maputo (in fruit), and Junod 510 (LISC; PRE) from Ricatla (female fl.).
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Bridelia cathartica subsp. cathartica [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Bridelia schlechteri Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1914: 249 (1914); in F.C. 5, 2: 380 (1915). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas 3, 2: 43 (1921). Type: Mozambique, “Inyamasan”, female fl. & y. fr. 21.i.1898, Schlechter 12065 (K, holotype; BR).
Information
Leaf blades rarely exceeding 6 cm in length on younger shoots, glaucous beneath and usually drying greyish-brown; lateral nerves in up to 14 pairs, craspedodromous, closely parallel.
Habitat
On sandy soil and dunes, in coastal bush, littoral scrub and dune woodland and forest, also in secondary forest and old cultivations
Altitude range
2–90(345) m
90
2
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, Manhiça, Vila de Incomáti, male fl. 26.iii.1979, de Koning 7372 (BM; K; LMU; MO).Mozambique GI Xai-Xai (Vila de João Belo), fr. 9.vi.1960, Lemos & Balsinhas in Lemos 42 (K; LISC; LMA; PRE).Mozambique MS Beira, female fl. & y. fr. 25.ii.1912, Rogers 4551 (BM; K).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
Notes
Vernacular names as recorded in specimen data include: “catchangate” (Muchopes); “mbalatangati” (Changane); “m’batelo” (Inhambane area); “mun(u)angati” (xiRonga); “munangati”, “nunangade”, “thlath-langati” (Landim).Intermediates between this and the following subspecies from Maputo Province are: Mrs Moss J28389 (PRE),from Inhaca (in fruit), & J28385 (PRE) from Maputo (in fruit), and Junod 510 (LISC; PRE) from Ricatla (female fl.).
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