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Type of Pentas purpurea Oliv. [family RUBIACEAE]

Date Updated: 7 October 2005

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), K000414213
Collection
Herbarium Specimens
Resource Type
Specimens
Collector
Speke; Grant, #140
Collection Date
1860
Locality
[Usui slopes]. [Stored under T1].
Country
Tanzania (Tanzania)
Collection altitude
1219.2
Identifications
Type of Pentas purpurea Oliv. [family RUBIACEAE] (stored under name) Pentas purpurea Oliv. var. typica Scott-Elliot [family RUBIACEAE] Pentas stolzii K.Schum. & K.Krause [family RUBIACEAE]; Verified by Verdcourt, B., Vignaldia unrecorded unrecorded [family RUBIACEAE]
Notes
Twelve to eighteen inches high, with long fibrous root deeply set in the ground, found on a slope of rocky debris. Stem round + rough - leaves also rough - Inflorescenece in Nov: an [illegible] of deep purple flowers - pistil is cleft and purple at its tip - seeds small and [illegible] numerous (sent home). Collection date [Nov/61] "This upsets everything. It is not [underlined] P. zanzibarica (Kl.) Vtke. but = P. stolzii K. Schum + K. Krause which I was considering a var. of a species P. buchanii (Scott Elliot) nomb. nov.!! P. purpurea thus becomes the sp. with buchananii + mechowiana as varieties. What a wonderul field not much bettern than the present day ones. Everybody has been misled by the synonymy with P. zanzibarica hence the description of stolzii as a new species. Heaven knows why this hasn't been noted. B. Verdcourt, 25/07/[19]52."
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Data last modified
07-10-2005
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