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Melhania forbesii Planch. ex Mast. [family STERCULIACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 2, page 517, (1961) Author: H. Wild
Names
Melhania didyma [family STERCULIACEAE], sensu O. B. Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 57 (1952) quoad specim. Lugard.
Melhania serrulata R.E.Fr. [family STERCULIACEAE], Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 157 (1914). Type: S. Rhodesia, Victoria Falls, Fries 74 (UPS).
Melhania forbesii Planch. ex Mast. [family STERCULIACEAE], in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 231 (1868). — K. Schum. in Engl., Mon. Afr. Pflanz. 5: 12 (1900) — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 417 (1916). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 1: 261 (1926). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 190 (1951). TAB. 99 fig. A. Syntypes: Mozambique, Chupanga, Kirk (K); without precise locality, Hutton (K).
Information
Branching shrublet c. 0·6 m. tall, densely covered in all the herbaceous parts with a greyish-tomentellous indumentum intermingled, particularly on the stems, petioles and nerves on the under surface of the leaves, with longer stellate-ferruginous hairs. Leaf-lamina up to 11 × 5 cm., oblong, narrowly ovate-oblong or ovate, somewhat discolorous, apex obtuse or rarely acute, margin serrate or crenate, base rounded; petiole up to 2·5 cm. long. Flowers yellow, 1–3 together on axillary peduncles up to 9 cm. long; pedicels 0·5–1·5 cm. long, fasciculate. Epicalyx-bracts 1–1·5 × 0·8–1 cm., very broadly ovate, acute or slightly acuminate at the apex, subcordate at the base, densely greyish-white-tomentose. Sepals of 2/3 or equalling the length of the epicalyx, lanceolate-acuminate, tomentose. Petals about the same length as the sepals, very broadly obovate. Stamens connate for 1–2 mm. below; filaments flattened, 1–2 mm. long; anthers lanceolate, 2–5 mm. long; staminodes c. 7 mm. long, linear or lorate. Ovary ovoid, tomentose; style 1–3 mm. long; stigmas linear, recurved. Fruit slightly shorter than the sepals, ovoid, tomentose. Seeds c. 6 per loculus, c. 2 mm. in diam., dark brown, irregularly compressed; testa smooth or occasionally slightly rugose.
Habitat
drier types of woodland.
Altitude range
Low-altitude
800
0
inferred from low
Distribution
Mozambique M Delagoa Bay, fl. 4.i.1898, Schlechter 11982 (BM; COI; K; PRE).Mozambique GI Alto de Maxixe, fl. 25.ii.1955, E.M. & W. 567 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Nuanetsi, Tswiza, fl. & fr. 1.xi.1955, Wild 4698 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Melsetter North, fl. 16.viii.1932, Brain 9592 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Shangani Reserve, fl. iii.1949, Davies 6 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS between Gombalançae & Maringuè, fl. & fr. 29.ix.1949, Pedro & Pedrógão 8420 (LMJ; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Darwin Distr., near Bopoma R. and Mazoe R., fl. & fr. 10.x.1957, Crehan 191 (SRGH).Zambia S Livingstone, fl. 5.xii.1931, Trapnell 557 (K).Botswana N Kwebe Hills, fl. 22.i.1898, Lugard 123 (K).Caprivi Strip E. of Kwando R., fr. x.1945, Curson 1098 (PRE).
Distribution (external)
Transvaal
SW. Africa
Angola
Notes
Each flower in this species opens for one day only and often they are open in the mornings only. M. acuminata and probably M. velutina behave similarly. The photograph in Hopkins, Bacon and Gyde, Common Veld Fl.: 74 (1940) is either of this species or M. acuminata. Some material of M. forbesii, viz. van Son in Herb. Transv. Mus. 29014 (BM; K; PRE; SRGH) and Brain 9232 (K; SRGH) from the Victoria Falls, is near M. velutina Forsk. (described from Arabia but reaching Tanganyika and Angola to the south) in having rather acuminate bracts. They are not good specimens, however, and were probably collected in dry conditions.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 2, page 517, (1961) Author: H. Wild
Names
Melhania didyma [family STERCULIACEAE], sensu O. B. Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 57 (1952) quoad specim. Lugard.
Melhania serrulata R.E.Fr. [family STERCULIACEAE], Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 157 (1914). Type: S. Rhodesia, Victoria Falls, Fries 74 (UPS).
Melhania forbesii Planch. ex Mast. [family STERCULIACEAE], in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 231 (1868). — K. Schum. in Engl., Mon. Afr. Pflanz. 5: 12 (1900) — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 417 (1916). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 1: 261 (1926). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 190 (1951). TAB. 99 fig. A. Syntypes: Mozambique, Chupanga, Kirk (K); without precise locality, Hutton (K).
Information
Branching shrublet c. 0·6 m. tall, densely covered in all the herbaceous parts with a greyish-tomentellous indumentum intermingled, particularly on the stems, petioles and nerves on the under surface of the leaves, with longer stellate-ferruginous hairs. Leaf-lamina up to 11 × 5 cm., oblong, narrowly ovate-oblong or ovate, somewhat discolorous, apex obtuse or rarely acute, margin serrate or crenate, base rounded; petiole up to 2·5 cm. long. Flowers yellow, 1–3 together on axillary peduncles up to 9 cm. long; pedicels 0·5–1·5 cm. long, fasciculate. Epicalyx-bracts 1–1·5 × 0·8–1 cm., very broadly ovate, acute or slightly acuminate at the apex, subcordate at the base, densely greyish-white-tomentose. Sepals of 2/3 or equalling the length of the epicalyx, lanceolate-acuminate, tomentose. Petals about the same length as the sepals, very broadly obovate. Stamens connate for 1–2 mm. below; filaments flattened, 1–2 mm. long; anthers lanceolate, 2–5 mm. long; staminodes c. 7 mm. long, linear or lorate. Ovary ovoid, tomentose; style 1–3 mm. long; stigmas linear, recurved. Fruit slightly shorter than the sepals, ovoid, tomentose. Seeds c. 6 per loculus, c. 2 mm. in diam., dark brown, irregularly compressed; testa smooth or occasionally slightly rugose.
Habitat
drier types of woodland.
Altitude range
Low-altitude
800
0
inferred from low
Distribution
Mozambique M Delagoa Bay, fl. 4.i.1898, Schlechter 11982 (BM; COI; K; PRE).Mozambique GI Alto de Maxixe, fl. 25.ii.1955, E.M. & W. 567 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Nuanetsi, Tswiza, fl. & fr. 1.xi.1955, Wild 4698 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Melsetter North, fl. 16.viii.1932, Brain 9592 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Shangani Reserve, fl. iii.1949, Davies 6 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS between Gombalançae & Maringuè, fl. & fr. 29.ix.1949, Pedro & Pedrógão 8420 (LMJ; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Darwin Distr., near Bopoma R. and Mazoe R., fl. & fr. 10.x.1957, Crehan 191 (SRGH).Zambia S Livingstone, fl. 5.xii.1931, Trapnell 557 (K).Botswana N Kwebe Hills, fl. 22.i.1898, Lugard 123 (K).Caprivi Strip E. of Kwando R., fr. x.1945, Curson 1098 (PRE).
Distribution (external)
Transvaal
SW. Africa
Angola
Notes
Each flower in this species opens for one day only and often they are open in the mornings only. M. acuminata and probably M. velutina behave similarly. The photograph in Hopkins, Bacon and Gyde, Common Veld Fl.: 74 (1940) is either of this species or M. acuminata. Some material of M. forbesii, viz. van Son in Herb. Transv. Mus. 29014 (BM; K; PRE; SRGH) and Brain 9232 (K; SRGH) from the Victoria Falls, is near M. velutina Forsk. (described from Arabia but reaching Tanganyika and Angola to the south) in having rather acuminate bracts. They are not good specimens, however, and were probably collected in dry conditions.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 2, page 517, (1961) Author: H. Wild
Names
Melhania didyma [family STERCULIACEAE], sensu O. B. Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 57 (1952) quoad specim. Lugard.
Melhania serrulata R.E.Fr. [family STERCULIACEAE], Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 157 (1914). Type: S. Rhodesia, Victoria Falls, Fries 74 (UPS).
Melhania forbesii Planch. ex Mast. [family STERCULIACEAE], in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 231 (1868). — K. Schum. in Engl., Mon. Afr. Pflanz. 5: 12 (1900) — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 417 (1916). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 1: 261 (1926). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 190 (1951). TAB. 99 fig. A. Syntypes: Mozambique, Chupanga, Kirk (K); without precise locality, Hutton (K).
Information
Branching shrublet c. 0·6 m. tall, densely covered in all the herbaceous parts with a greyish-tomentellous indumentum intermingled, particularly on the stems, petioles and nerves on the under surface of the leaves, with longer stellate-ferruginous hairs. Leaf-lamina up to 11 × 5 cm., oblong, narrowly ovate-oblong or ovate, somewhat discolorous, apex obtuse or rarely acute, margin serrate or crenate, base rounded; petiole up to 2·5 cm. long. Flowers yellow, 1–3 together on axillary peduncles up to 9 cm. long; pedicels 0·5–1·5 cm. long, fasciculate. Epicalyx-bracts 1–1·5 × 0·8–1 cm., very broadly ovate, acute or slightly acuminate at the apex, subcordate at the base, densely greyish-white-tomentose. Sepals of 2/3 or equalling the length of the epicalyx, lanceolate-acuminate, tomentose. Petals about the same length as the sepals, very broadly obovate. Stamens connate for 1–2 mm. below; filaments flattened, 1–2 mm. long; anthers lanceolate, 2–5 mm. long; staminodes c. 7 mm. long, linear or lorate. Ovary ovoid, tomentose; style 1–3 mm. long; stigmas linear, recurved. Fruit slightly shorter than the sepals, ovoid, tomentose. Seeds c. 6 per loculus, c. 2 mm. in diam., dark brown, irregularly compressed; testa smooth or occasionally slightly rugose.
Habitat
drier types of woodland.
Altitude range
Low-altitude
800
0
inferred from low
Distribution
Mozambique M Delagoa Bay, fl. 4.i.1898, Schlechter 11982 (BM; COI; K; PRE).Mozambique GI Alto de Maxixe, fl. 25.ii.1955, E.M. & W. 567 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Nuanetsi, Tswiza, fl. & fr. 1.xi.1955, Wild 4698 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Melsetter North, fl. 16.viii.1932, Brain 9592 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Shangani Reserve, fl. iii.1949, Davies 6 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS between Gombalançae & Maringuè, fl. & fr. 29.ix.1949, Pedro & Pedrógão 8420 (LMJ; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Darwin Distr., near Bopoma R. and Mazoe R., fl. & fr. 10.x.1957, Crehan 191 (SRGH).Zambia S Livingstone, fl. 5.xii.1931, Trapnell 557 (K).Botswana N Kwebe Hills, fl. 22.i.1898, Lugard 123 (K).Caprivi Strip E. of Kwando R., fr. x.1945, Curson 1098 (PRE).
Distribution (external)
Transvaal
SW. Africa
Angola
Notes
Each flower in this species opens for one day only and often they are open in the mornings only. M. acuminata and probably M. velutina behave similarly. The photograph in Hopkins, Bacon and Gyde, Common Veld Fl.: 74 (1940) is either of this species or M. acuminata. Some material of M. forbesii, viz. van Son in Herb. Transv. Mus. 29014 (BM; K; PRE; SRGH) and Brain 9232 (K; SRGH) from the Victoria Falls, is near M. velutina Forsk. (described from Arabia but reaching Tanganyika and Angola to the south) in having rather acuminate bracts. They are not good specimens, however, and were probably collected in dry conditions.
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