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Adenocline acuta Thunb. Baill. [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
Adenocline acuta Thunb. Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Étud. Gén. Euphorb.: 457 (1858). —Müller Argoviensis in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 1141 (1866). —Pax in Engler, Pflanzenr. [IV, fam. 147, vii, Addit. v] 63: 410, t. 67 (1914). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas (Veg. Erde 9) 3, 2: 135, t. 69 (1921). —Milne-Redhead in Kew Bull. 5: 349 (1951). —Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9, 1: 73 (1954). Type from South Africa (Cape Province).
Acalypha acuta Thunb. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Fl. Cap., ed 2, 2: 546 (1823).
Adenocline mercurialis Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 16, 2: 60 (1843); 25, 2: 179 (1857). —Prain in F.C. 5, 2: 492 (1920). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal: 306 (1932). Type from South Africa (Cape Province).
Information
A much-branched annual or perennial herb, or suffrutex, dioecious; stems weak, trailing or scrambling, up to 3 m in extent, hollow, cylindric, ribbed, green.Leaves opposite.Petioles 1–5 cm long.Leaf blades 2–8 × 1–4 cm, triangular-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate at the apex, serrate, cuneate to rounded, truncate or cordate, membranous, 5–7-nerved from the base, light green; lateral nerves in 1–4 pairs.Stipules dissected, the segments up to 4 mm long, subulate-filiform, persistent.Stipels resembling the stipules, but not more than 1 mm long.Male inflorescences up to 15 cm long and 20 cm across, laxly paniculate; bracts 1–3 cm long, narrowly-lanceolate, ± entire, cuneate-attenuate, grading below into the leaves.Female inflorescences resembling the male, but generally somewhat smaller.Male flowers: pedicels up to 3 mm long; sepals 1–2 mm long, linear, greenish; disk glands minute; stamens 6–12, c. 1 mm long, anthers yellowish.Female flowers: pedicels up to 5 mm long; sepals 2–2.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, green; disk glands c. 0.5 mm long, compressed-cylindric-infundibuliform; ovary c. 1 mm in diameter, 3-lobed; styles 1.2 mm long, bifid, inflexed at the tip.Fruit 2 × 3 mm, 3-lobed, apically tricuspidate, smooth, green.Seeds 1.5 mm in diameter, foveolate, dark purplish-brown with whitish pits.
Habitat
In montane grassland, rainforest margins and on shady riverbanks in forest, also in thickets and on wooded granite kopjes
Altitude range
1340–2300 m.
2300
1340
Distribution
Malawi S Zomba Plateau, female fl. & fr. 4.vi.1946, Brass 16206 (K; MO; NY; SRGH).Malawi C Dedza Mt., male fl. 20.iii.1955, Exell, Mendonça & Wild 1085 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Nyanga Distr., Cheshire, male fl. 4.ii.1931, Norlindh & Weimarck 4844 (K; LD; PRE); Mutare Distr., Inyamatshira Mt., male fl. 29.iii.1953, Chase 4891 (BM; K; LISC; MO; PRE; SRGH); Chimanimani Distr., Bridal Veil Falls, male fl. 30.v.1963, Chase 8021 (BM; COI; LISC; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Transvaal, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province)
Swaziland
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
Adenocline acuta Thunb. Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Étud. Gén. Euphorb.: 457 (1858). —Müller Argoviensis in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 1141 (1866). —Pax in Engler, Pflanzenr. [IV, fam. 147, vii, Addit. v] 63: 410, t. 67 (1914). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas (Veg. Erde 9) 3, 2: 135, t. 69 (1921). —Milne-Redhead in Kew Bull. 5: 349 (1951). —Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9, 1: 73 (1954). Type from South Africa (Cape Province).
Acalypha acuta Thunb. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Fl. Cap., ed 2, 2: 546 (1823).
Adenocline mercurialis Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 16, 2: 60 (1843); 25, 2: 179 (1857). —Prain in F.C. 5, 2: 492 (1920). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal: 306 (1932). Type from South Africa (Cape Province).
Information
A much-branched annual or perennial herb, or suffrutex, dioecious; stems weak, trailing or scrambling, up to 3 m in extent, hollow, cylindric, ribbed, green.Leaves opposite.Petioles 1–5 cm long.Leaf blades 2–8 × 1–4 cm, triangular-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate at the apex, serrate, cuneate to rounded, truncate or cordate, membranous, 5–7-nerved from the base, light green; lateral nerves in 1–4 pairs.Stipules dissected, the segments up to 4 mm long, subulate-filiform, persistent.Stipels resembling the stipules, but not more than 1 mm long.Male inflorescences up to 15 cm long and 20 cm across, laxly paniculate; bracts 1–3 cm long, narrowly-lanceolate, ± entire, cuneate-attenuate, grading below into the leaves.Female inflorescences resembling the male, but generally somewhat smaller.Male flowers: pedicels up to 3 mm long; sepals 1–2 mm long, linear, greenish; disk glands minute; stamens 6–12, c. 1 mm long, anthers yellowish.Female flowers: pedicels up to 5 mm long; sepals 2–2.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, green; disk glands c. 0.5 mm long, compressed-cylindric-infundibuliform; ovary c. 1 mm in diameter, 3-lobed; styles 1.2 mm long, bifid, inflexed at the tip.Fruit 2 × 3 mm, 3-lobed, apically tricuspidate, smooth, green.Seeds 1.5 mm in diameter, foveolate, dark purplish-brown with whitish pits.
Habitat
In montane grassland, rainforest margins and on shady riverbanks in forest, also in thickets and on wooded granite kopjes
Altitude range
1340–2300 m.
2300
1340
Distribution
Malawi S Zomba Plateau, female fl. & fr. 4.vi.1946, Brass 16206 (K; MO; NY; SRGH).Malawi C Dedza Mt., male fl. 20.iii.1955, Exell, Mendonça & Wild 1085 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Nyanga Distr., Cheshire, male fl. 4.ii.1931, Norlindh & Weimarck 4844 (K; LD; PRE); Mutare Distr., Inyamatshira Mt., male fl. 29.iii.1953, Chase 4891 (BM; K; LISC; MO; PRE; SRGH); Chimanimani Distr., Bridal Veil Falls, male fl. 30.v.1963, Chase 8021 (BM; COI; LISC; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Transvaal, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province)
Swaziland
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
Adenocline acuta Thunb. Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Étud. Gén. Euphorb.: 457 (1858). —Müller Argoviensis in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 1141 (1866). —Pax in Engler, Pflanzenr. [IV, fam. 147, vii, Addit. v] 63: 410, t. 67 (1914). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas (Veg. Erde 9) 3, 2: 135, t. 69 (1921). —Milne-Redhead in Kew Bull. 5: 349 (1951). —Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9, 1: 73 (1954). Type from South Africa (Cape Province).
Acalypha acuta Thunb. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Fl. Cap., ed 2, 2: 546 (1823).
Adenocline mercurialis Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 16, 2: 60 (1843); 25, 2: 179 (1857). —Prain in F.C. 5, 2: 492 (1920). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal: 306 (1932). Type from South Africa (Cape Province).
Information
A much-branched annual or perennial herb, or suffrutex, dioecious; stems weak, trailing or scrambling, up to 3 m in extent, hollow, cylindric, ribbed, green.Leaves opposite.Petioles 1–5 cm long.Leaf blades 2–8 × 1–4 cm, triangular-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate at the apex, serrate, cuneate to rounded, truncate or cordate, membranous, 5–7-nerved from the base, light green; lateral nerves in 1–4 pairs.Stipules dissected, the segments up to 4 mm long, subulate-filiform, persistent.Stipels resembling the stipules, but not more than 1 mm long.Male inflorescences up to 15 cm long and 20 cm across, laxly paniculate; bracts 1–3 cm long, narrowly-lanceolate, ± entire, cuneate-attenuate, grading below into the leaves.Female inflorescences resembling the male, but generally somewhat smaller.Male flowers: pedicels up to 3 mm long; sepals 1–2 mm long, linear, greenish; disk glands minute; stamens 6–12, c. 1 mm long, anthers yellowish.Female flowers: pedicels up to 5 mm long; sepals 2–2.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, green; disk glands c. 0.5 mm long, compressed-cylindric-infundibuliform; ovary c. 1 mm in diameter, 3-lobed; styles 1.2 mm long, bifid, inflexed at the tip.Fruit 2 × 3 mm, 3-lobed, apically tricuspidate, smooth, green.Seeds 1.5 mm in diameter, foveolate, dark purplish-brown with whitish pits.
Habitat
In montane grassland, rainforest margins and on shady riverbanks in forest, also in thickets and on wooded granite kopjes
Altitude range
1340–2300 m.
2300
1340
Distribution
Malawi S Zomba Plateau, female fl. & fr. 4.vi.1946, Brass 16206 (K; MO; NY; SRGH).Malawi C Dedza Mt., male fl. 20.iii.1955, Exell, Mendonça & Wild 1085 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Nyanga Distr., Cheshire, male fl. 4.ii.1931, Norlindh & Weimarck 4844 (K; LD; PRE); Mutare Distr., Inyamatshira Mt., male fl. 29.iii.1953, Chase 4891 (BM; K; LISC; MO; PRE; SRGH); Chimanimani Distr., Bridal Veil Falls, male fl. 30.v.1963, Chase 8021 (BM; COI; LISC; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Transvaal, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province)
Swaziland
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