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Jatropha schlechteri subsp. setifera Hutch. 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
Jatropha schlechteri subsp. setifera Hutch. Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 46: 152 (1991). Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Jatropha setifera Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Botanist in Southern Africa: 397 (1946).
Information
Male calyx lobes ± entire; ovary ± glabrous; fruit glabrous.
Habitat
Dry sandveld with Colophospermum mopane, Grewia, Terminalia, Commiphora, also in seasonal pans in deep black basalt soils
Altitude range
565 m.
565
565
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Gwanda Distr., Quale R., fr. 17.xii.1956, Davies 2325 (K; LISC; MO; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (northern Transvaal)
Notes
Bruce Hargreaves (pers. comm.) reports both subspecies from the extreme east of Botswana (Masama and Semolale respectively), but I have seen no specimens.
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
Jatropha schlechteri subsp. setifera Hutch. Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 46: 152 (1991). Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Jatropha setifera Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Botanist in Southern Africa: 397 (1946).
Information
Male calyx lobes ± entire; ovary ± glabrous; fruit glabrous.
Habitat
Dry sandveld with Colophospermum mopane, Grewia, Terminalia, Commiphora, also in seasonal pans in deep black basalt soils
Altitude range
565 m.
565
565
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Gwanda Distr., Quale R., fr. 17.xii.1956, Davies 2325 (K; LISC; MO; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (northern Transvaal)
Notes
Bruce Hargreaves (pers. comm.) reports both subspecies from the extreme east of Botswana (Masama and Semolale respectively), but I have seen no specimens.
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
Jatropha schlechteri subsp. setifera Hutch. Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 46: 152 (1991). Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Jatropha setifera Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Botanist in Southern Africa: 397 (1946).
Information
Male calyx lobes ± entire; ovary ± glabrous; fruit glabrous.
Habitat
Dry sandveld with Colophospermum mopane, Grewia, Terminalia, Commiphora, also in seasonal pans in deep black basalt soils
Altitude range
565 m.
565
565
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Gwanda Distr., Quale R., fr. 17.xii.1956, Davies 2325 (K; LISC; MO; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (northern Transvaal)
Notes
Bruce Hargreaves (pers. comm.) reports both subspecies from the extreme east of Botswana (Masama and Semolale respectively), but I have seen no specimens.
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