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Vitex mombassae Vatke 1882

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12. Vitex mombassae Vatke

(Vatke 1882: 533); Baker (1900: 326); De Wildeman (1903a: 121; 1912b: 367; 1921: 165; 1929b: 106); Durand & Durand (1909: 437); Pieper (1928: 66); Delevoy (1929: 484); White (1962: 371); Verdcourt (1992: 64); (Beentje 1994: 623); Bredenkamp & Botha (1996: 146); Lebrun & Stork (1997: 525); van Wyk & van Wyk (1997: 476); Sales (2001: 197; 2005: 87); Smith & Allen (2004: 82); Coates Palgrave & Coates Palgrave (2005: 983); Meerts & Hasson (2016: 337); Meerts (2016: 231).

– Type: “[Kenya] [Prope] Mombassa [in ora zanzibarensi], Jan. 1876, Hildebrandt 1972 (lecto-: BM barcode BM000839709 designated by Cabral (2013); isolecto-: K barcode K000192785, Wbarcode W 0008469).

Vitex mufutu De Wild. (De Wildeman 1914a: 142; 1914c: 406; 1921: 165).

– Type: D.R. Congo, Haut-Katanga, Etoile du Congo, Dec. 1911, Hock s.n. (holo-: BR barcode BR 0000008905451).

Ashrub or a small tree. Young twigs orange to fulvous tomentose. Leaflets 3–5, petiolule 0(–5) mm; lamina obtuse to rounded at tip, pubescent on both surfaces. Inflorescence of dichasia, few flowered, branches yellowish pubescent; calyx 4–7 mm, yellowish woolly tomentose, corolla cream, mauve tinged, 10–20 mm, stamens very long protruding; ovary hairy; fruit c. 35 mm long.

Distribution – Eand S Africa, from Kenya southwards to South Africa and westwards to D.R. Congo.

Notes

Published as part of Meerts, Pierre, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Vitex (Lamiaceae) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pp. 380-392 in Plant Ecology and Evolution 151 (3) on page 388, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.2018.1504, http://zenodo.org/record/7664390

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Is part of
Journal article: 10.5091/plecevo.2018.1504 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7664390 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE82B5A00511E4EFFC65045FFD4FF86 (URL)

Biodiversity

Event date
1876-01-31 , 1911-12-31
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Vitex
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Lamiales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Vatke
Species
mombassae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , isolectotype , lectotype
Verbatim event date
1876-01-31 , 1911-12-31
Taxonomic concept label
Vitex mombassae Vatke, 1882 sec. Meerts, 2018

References

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