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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: | |
Insects associated with this species: | |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
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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