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Drypetes gerrardii var. tomentosa Radcl.-Sm. [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
Drypetes gerrardii var. tomentosa Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 32: 477 (1978); in F.T.E.A., Euphorb. 1: 98 (1987). Type from Uganda.
Information
Young shoots and petioles densely yellowish-tomentose; leaf blades 2–6 × 1–3.5 cm, otherwise more or less as in typical variety; fruits shallowly bilobed.
Habitat
Usually in mteshi (dry evergreen thicket), also in mushitu, evergreen forest and riverine fringing vegetation, often on anthills
Altitude range
1250–1450 m.
1450
1250
Distribution
Zambia S Mumbwa Distr., Nambala Mt., y. male fl. 18.ix.1947, Brenan & Greenway 7877 (FHO; K; PRE).Malawi S Machemba Hill, male fl. 28.viii.1984, Patel & Morris 1543 (K; MAL; MO).Zambia W Ndola, fr. 21.iv.1969, Fanshawe 10583 (K; NDO; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Rwanda
Sudan (Equatoria)
Uganda
south Kenya
north-western Tanzania
South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
Notes
Patel & Tawakali 1019 (K; MAL) from Chikala Mt., Liwonde For. Res., of southern Malawi, is intermediate between this and the previous variety, whilst White 3197D from Solwezi and Fanshawe 2160 from Kitwe, western Zambia, are intermediate between it and the typical variety.
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
Drypetes gerrardii var. tomentosa Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 32: 477 (1978); in F.T.E.A., Euphorb. 1: 98 (1987). Type from Uganda.
Information
Young shoots and petioles densely yellowish-tomentose; leaf blades 2–6 × 1–3.5 cm, otherwise more or less as in typical variety; fruits shallowly bilobed.
Habitat
Usually in mteshi (dry evergreen thicket), also in mushitu, evergreen forest and riverine fringing vegetation, often on anthills
Altitude range
1250–1450 m.
1450
1250
Distribution
Zambia S Mumbwa Distr., Nambala Mt., y. male fl. 18.ix.1947, Brenan & Greenway 7877 (FHO; K; PRE).Malawi S Machemba Hill, male fl. 28.viii.1984, Patel & Morris 1543 (K; MAL; MO).Zambia W Ndola, fr. 21.iv.1969, Fanshawe 10583 (K; NDO; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Rwanda
Sudan (Equatoria)
Uganda
south Kenya
north-western Tanzania
South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
Notes
Patel & Tawakali 1019 (K; MAL) from Chikala Mt., Liwonde For. Res., of southern Malawi, is intermediate between this and the previous variety, whilst White 3197D from Solwezi and Fanshawe 2160 from Kitwe, western Zambia, are intermediate between it and the typical variety.
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
Drypetes gerrardii var. tomentosa Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 32: 477 (1978); in F.T.E.A., Euphorb. 1: 98 (1987). Type from Uganda.
Information
Young shoots and petioles densely yellowish-tomentose; leaf blades 2–6 × 1–3.5 cm, otherwise more or less as in typical variety; fruits shallowly bilobed.
Habitat
Usually in mteshi (dry evergreen thicket), also in mushitu, evergreen forest and riverine fringing vegetation, often on anthills
Altitude range
1250–1450 m.
1450
1250
Distribution
Zambia S Mumbwa Distr., Nambala Mt., y. male fl. 18.ix.1947, Brenan & Greenway 7877 (FHO; K; PRE).Malawi S Machemba Hill, male fl. 28.viii.1984, Patel & Morris 1543 (K; MAL; MO).Zambia W Ndola, fr. 21.iv.1969, Fanshawe 10583 (K; NDO; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Rwanda
Sudan (Equatoria)
Uganda
south Kenya
north-western Tanzania
South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
Notes
Patel & Tawakali 1019 (K; MAL) from Chikala Mt., Liwonde For. Res., of southern Malawi, is intermediate between this and the previous variety, whilst White 3197D from Solwezi and Fanshawe 2160 from Kitwe, western Zambia, are intermediate between it and the typical variety.
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