Fadogiella stigmatoloba (K.Schum.) Robyns

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Fadogiella stigmatoloba

Habit
Upland hill miombo woodland
Mafinga Mountains, Mafinga District
Jan 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

Fadogiella stigmatoloba

Leaves
Upland hill miombo woodland
Mafinga Mountains, Mafinga District
Jan 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

Fadogiella stigmatoloba

Flowers
Upland hill miombo woodland
Mafinga Mountains, Mafinga District
Jan 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

Fadogiella stigmatoloba

Flowers
Upland hill miombo woodland
Mafinga Mountains, Mafinga District
Jan 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

Fadogiella stigmatoloba

Fruits
Upland hill miombo woodland
Mafinga Mountains, Mafinga District
Jan 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Synonyms: Fadogia manikensis De Wild.
Fadogia stigmatoloba K. Schum.
Fadogiella manikensis (De Wild.) Robyns
Fadogiella verticillata Robyns
Common names:
Frequency: Occasional
Status: Native
Description:
Erect suffrutex, 0.5–1.2(1.8) m tall, from a thick horizontal or vertical woody rootstock; stems usually single, or 2–3, much branched often 3–4-angled; shoots slender, velvety yellowish-tomentose above but soon glabrescent and ultimately dull purplish and glabrous. Leaves predominantly paired, or in whorls of 3 at a few nodes bearing 3 side branches; blades 1.7–8(10) × 0.5–4.4(5.8) cm, narrowly to broadly elliptic or obovate, or lanceolate, narrowed to a rounded or subacute apex, rarely shortly acuminate, cuneate at the base, mostly very discolorous, densely covered with yellowish-grey, curled, short hairs above which do not obscure the surface, ultimately sometimes becoming ± glabrous, white or yellowish-grey velvety tomentose beneath. Inflorescences dense and subsessile, the axillary pairs forming dense nodal clusters; peduncles 0–2.5 mm long, rarely to 15 mm in fruit; pedicels 1–1.5(5) mm long, all densely tomentose. Calyx tube 1–1.5 mm long, the teeth short, 0.5–1 mm long, ± triangular, ± scarious, brown, ± glabrous or pubescent. Corolla with 5 short but distinct appendages in bud; green or yellow, densely tomentose with appressed hairs; tube 3–5 mm long, densely tomentose outside, shortly hairy at the throat; lobes 4–5 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, linear-triangular, apiculate, with similar indumentum to tube outside. Fruits globose, 7.5–12(15) mm in diameter, crowned by a tomentose calyx limb, shiny, glabrescent or glabrous, with (1)3–5 pyrenes.
Type location:
Tanzania
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: stigmatoloba: referring to the 3-4-lobed stigma.
Habitat: In miombo woodland, sometimes on dambo margins and termite mounds.
Altitude range: 900 - 1900 m
Flowering time:Feb - Apr
Worldwide distribution: Angola, DRC(Katanga), southern Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): N,W
Zambian distribution (Provinces): Nw,N
Growth form(s): Perennial.
Endemic status:
Red data list status:
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Content last updated: Wednesday 26 July 2023
Literature:

Bridson, D.M. (1998). Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2) Pages 282 - 284. (Includes a picture).

Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 241. (Includes a picture).

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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Fadogiella stigmatoloba.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=202540, retrieved 29 March 2024

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