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2b.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Holstein" authorityYear="2015" baseAuthorityName="Holstein" baseAuthorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Coccinia aurantiaca" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="aurantiaca" status="stat. nov.">Coccinia aurantiaca</taxonomicName>
C.Jeffrey, Kew Bull. 17: 169. 1963.
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<paragraph pageId="59" pageNumber="60">
<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77148917-1" authorityName="Holstein" authorityYear="2015" baseAuthorityName="C. Jeffrey" baseAuthorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Coccinia adoensis subsp. var. var. aurantiaca" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="adoensis" status="stat. nov." subSpecies="var." variety="aurantiaca">Coccinia adoensis var. aurantiaca</taxonomicName>
Type: Tanzania. Dodoma: Kondoa District, Great North road, 15 miles S of Kondoa, 1310 m, fl, fr, 19 Jan 1962,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">R. Polhill &amp; S. Paulo 1221</emphasis>
(Holotype: K! [K000313236, digital image: JPS, K], isotypes: B! [B 10 0154922, digital image: B, JPS], B! [B 10 0154923, digital image: B, JPS], BR! [BR0000008887252, digital image: BR, JPS], EA (2)!, PRE! [PRE0592951-1, digital image: JPS], PRE! [PRE0592951-2, digital image: JPS]).
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<paragraph pageId="59" pageNumber="60">
<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77148917-1" authorityName="Holstein" authorityYear="2015" baseAuthorityName="C. Jeffrey" baseAuthorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Coccinia adoensis subsp. var. var. aurantiaca" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="adoensis" status="stat. nov." subSpecies="var." variety="aurantiaca">Coccinia adoensis var. aurantiaca</taxonomicName>
Type: Tanzania. Dodoma: 1 ml. [1.6 km] S of Dodoma, Imagi hill,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">R. Polhill &amp; S. Paulo 1274</emphasis>
(Paratypes: B! [B 10 0154921, digital image: B, JPS], BR!, EA!, K (3)!, P! p.p.,
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<paragraph pageId="59" pageNumber="60">
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PRE!, S! [S08-11841, digital image: S]).
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<paragraph pageId="59" pageNumber="60">
<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77148917-1" authorityName="Holstein" authorityYear="2015" baseAuthorityName="C. Jeffrey" baseAuthorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Coccinia adoensis subsp. var. var. aurantiaca" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="adoensis" status="stat. nov." subSpecies="var." variety="aurantiaca">Coccinia adoensis var. aurantiaca</taxonomicName>
Type: Tanzania. Mwanza: Mwanza, Ilemera, Butimba,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">R.E.S. Tanner 1902</emphasis>
(Paratypes: BR!, EA!, K (2)!).
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<paragraph pageId="59" pageNumber="60">
<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77148917-1" authorityName="Holstein" authorityYear="2015" baseAuthorityName="C. Jeffrey" baseAuthorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Coccinia adoensis subsp. var. var. aurantiaca" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="adoensis" status="stat. nov." subSpecies="var." variety="aurantiaca">Coccinia adoensis var. aurantiaca</taxonomicName>
Type: Tanzania. Mwanza: Mbarika [chiefdom], Buzomo,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">R.E.S. Tanner 1068</emphasis>
(Paratypes: BR!, COI (2)!, EA!, K!, NY!).
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<paragraph pageId="59" pageNumber="60">
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Type: Tanzania. Mwanza: Mwanza,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">R.E.S. Tanner 646</emphasis>
(Paratype: K!).
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Type: Tanzania. Shinyanga: near Shinyanga,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">R.D. Bax 57</emphasis>
(Paratypes: K (2)!).
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Type: Tanzania. Shinyanga: hills near Shinyanga,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">B.D. Burtt 2517</emphasis>
(Paratype: K!).
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<paragraph pageId="59" pageNumber="60">
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Type: Tanzania. Shinyanga: Shinyanga,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">H. Koritschoner 1823</emphasis>
(Paratypes: EA (2)!, K!).
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<paragraph pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="61" lastPageNumber="62" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">
Perennial climber. Stems up to 10 m, almost tomentose with short (&lt;0.5 mm), stiff, whitish trichomes. Petiole 1.5-3.5 cm, indumentum similar to stems. Leaves 5.2-12.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
6.4-14.5 cm, cordate, shallowly to profoundly 3- or 5-lobate. Lobes triangulate, ovate, elliptical to obovate. Margin serrate to lobulate. Apex obtuse, rarely acute, with final tooth. Upper leaf surface white-pustulate sometimes more or less pubescent with short, whitish trichomes. Lower leaf surface usually densely covered with curved or short, straight trichomes on nerves. Probracts up to 1.5 mm, often caducous. Tendrils simple. Male flowers solitary or in racemes. Common peduncle 0.4-3 cm, pedicels in racemes up to 0.5 cm, pedicel of solitary flowers 1-2 cm, indumentum as on stem. Bracts up to 1.5 mm, persisting. Perianth tube densely covered with short (&lt;0.5 mm) trichomes. Calyx lobes 1-3 mm, narrow triangular to dentate, spreading. Corolla 1.6-2.4 cm long, pale yellow-brown to orange, rarely? yellow, with green to orange venation, lobes 0.6-1 cm. Filament column, anther head, and pollen sacs more or less pale orange, rarely yellowish? (Fig.
<pageBreakToken pageId="60" pageNumber="61" start="start">10</pageBreakToken>
b). Female flowers solitary, pedicel 1.2-4 cm, indumentum as on stems. Hypanthium densely covered with short (&lt;0.5 mm) trichomes, calyx lobes, and corolla as in male flowers. Style shape not seen, green. Stigma shape not seen, yellow to orange. Ovary with short trichomes. Unripe fruits pale green with irregular lighter spots and
<pageBreakToken pageId="61" pageNumber="62" start="start">dark</pageBreakToken>
green longitudinal lines. Fruits 5-9
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1.5-3.5 cm, long ovoid, apex sometimes beaked, when ripe orange-red. Seeds 6-6.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
3.5-4
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1.5-1.7 mm [L/W/H], slightly asymmetrically obovate, face flatly lenticular.
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<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Phenology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Flowering time: January, March, July, October, December.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">
Fig.
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. Tanzania (Dodoma, Iringa, Manyara, Morogoro, Mwanza, Shinyanga). Elevation 600-1200 m. Red sandy soil, red clay, granite. White clay. Gray sand. Brown sandy loam. Dry Miombo woodland,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Acacia tanganyikensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
-
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Acacia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Acacia tortilis subsp. spirocarpa" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="subSpecies" species="tortilis" subSpecies="spirocarpa">Acacia tortilis subsp. spirocarpa</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Bombacaceae" genus="Adansonia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Adansonia digitata" order="Malvales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="digitata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Adansonia digitata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Maerua crassifolia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Balanites aegyptiaca</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
woodland, long grass savannas, dry (
<taxonomicName authorityName="N.J.Jacquin" authorityYear="1797" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Commiphora" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Commiphora" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Commiphora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
-
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Acacia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) bushland, thickets (e.g.,
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Combretum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Combretum" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Combretum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
thickets), among rocks on hills.
</paragraph>
<caption pageId="61" pageNumber="62" start="Figure 23" startId="F23">
<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Figure 23.</emphasis>
Distribution map of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Holstein" authorityYear="2015" baseAuthorityName="C. Jeffrey" baseAuthorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Coccinia adoensis subsp. var. var. aurantiaca" order="Uredinales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="adoensis" subSpecies="var." variety="aurantiaca">Coccinia adoensis var. aurantiaca</taxonomicName>
(pale yellow triangles; based on 18 collections),
<taxonomicName authorityName="Holstein" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Coccinia adoensis subsp. var. var. jeffreyana" order="Uredinales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="adoensis" subSpecies="var." variety="jeffreyana">Coccinia adoensis var. jeffreyana</taxonomicName>
(pale yellow dots; based on 18 collections),
<taxonomicName authorityName="Holstein, Kew Bull. 65 (3): 435. 2010 [publ. 1 Jan" authorityYear="2011" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Coccinia pwaniensis" order="Uredinales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pwaniensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Coccinia pwaniensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(blue triangles; based on 11 collections, including a natural hybrid), and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Coccinia senensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(blue dots; based on 30 collections). For Tanzania the borders of the regions are given.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<subSubSection pageId="61" pageNumber="62" type="use">
<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Use.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">
Leaves are boiled and eaten (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">J.L. Newman 62</emphasis>
). Fruits edible when ripe and dry (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">E.S. Macha 600</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Vernacular names.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">
Sandawe language: koba (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">J.L. Newman 62</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">
The status of this taxon as species is unclear, therefore it is treated as a variety of the polymorphic
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Coccinia adoensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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specimens as listed here are usually more densely covered with trichomes than
<taxonomicName authority="var. adoensis" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Coccinia adoensis subsp. var. var. adoensis" order="Uredinales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="adoensis" subSpecies="var." variety="adoensis">Coccinia adoensis var. adoensis</taxonomicName>
. Jeffrey segregated this species from the polymorphic
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Coccinia adoensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
because of the non-beaked fruits and flat seeds with a hyaline girdle. The beak is a sterile part of the ovary with variable length, but it does not occur in all populations. Two of the paratypes (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">R. Polhill &amp; S. Paulo 1274</emphasis>
(BR, P)), which match other
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collections vegetatively, have a slightly beaked fruit, although most other collections do not. The seeds are also hardly distinct from
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cogn" authorityYear="1881" baseAuthorityName="A. Rich." class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Coccinia adoensis" order="Uredinales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="adoensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Coccinia adoensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, perhaps somewhat larger. Seeds in
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Coccinia" order="Uredinales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Coccinia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are enclosed in a hyaline aril. Jeffrey only observed the dry collapsed aril, which is not part of the seed, as a &quot;hyaline girdle&quot;. The orange color of the petals, even with purple venation also occurs in individuals of
<taxonomicName authority="var. adoensis" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Coccinia adoensis subsp. var. var. adoensis" order="Uredinales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="adoensis" subSpecies="var." variety="adoensis">Coccinia adoensis var. adoensis</taxonomicName>
that have a less dense indumentum. The corolla is thus not a good distinguishing character either. However, this variety seems to occur in a drier part of the range of the overall
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cogn" authorityYear="1881" baseAuthorityName="A. Rich." class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Coccinia adoensis" order="Uredinales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="adoensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Coccinia adoensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
distribution (
<bibRefCitation author="Holstein, N" journalOrPublisher="BMC Evolutionary Biology" pageId="138" pageNumber="139" publicationUrl="10.1186/1471-2148-11-28" refId="B92" refString="Holstein, N, Renner, SS, 2011b. A dated phylogeny and collection records reveal repeated biome shifts in the African genus Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 11, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-28" title="A dated phylogeny and collection records reveal repeated biome shifts in the African genus Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae)." url="10.1186/1471-2148-11-28" volume="11" year="2011 b">Holstein and Renner 2011b</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="61" pageNumber="62" type="taxonomic remarks">
<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Taxonomic remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">
The flowers in the
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">R. Polhill &amp; S. Paulo 1274</emphasis>
specimen in P do not belong to
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Coccinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Coccinia" order="Uredinales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Coccinia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The calyx appears to be
<taxonomicName authorityName="Schum" authorityYear="1827" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Momordica" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Momordica foetida" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="foetida">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Momordica foetida</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Schum. &amp; Thonn. The HEID specimen (HEID779579) of that collection is also mistaken, eventually a mix-up while mounting the specimen. It has a completely different indumentum and a narrow, almost cylindrical perianth tube.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="61" pageNumber="62" type="specimens examined">
<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Specimens examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="61" pageNumber="62">
(Selection, in total: 29) Tanzania. Dodoma: Dodoma-Kondoa road, c. 20 km S of Kondoa,
<geoCoordinate degrees="05" direction="south" minutes="16" orientation="latitude" precision="1" seconds="31.5" value="-5.275417">05°16'31.5&quot;S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="35" direction="east" minutes="53" orientation="longitude" precision="1" seconds="01.1" value="35.88364">35°53'01.1&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">N. Holstein et al. 85</emphasis>
(DSM, M), and
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">86</emphasis>
(M). Iringa: Iringa Rural District, along road Iringa-Morogoro road and Lukosi River, at bottom of Kitonga Gorge, c. 6 km W of Mahenge village at milepost 253 km from Morogoro,
<geoCoordinate degrees="7" direction="south" minutes="38" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-7.633333">7°38'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="36" direction="east" minutes="14" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="36.233334">36°14'E</geoCoordinate>
, [
<geoCoordinate degrees="7" direction="south" minutes="34" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-7.5666666">7°34'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="36" direction="east" minutes="19" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="36.316666">36°19'E</geoCoordinate>
],
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">C.M. Taylor et al. 8485</emphasis>
(K, MO); [Ruaha National Park], Msembi [near airfield],
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">P.J. Greenway &amp; K. Kanuri 14811</emphasis>
(EA (2), K, M). Manyara: Tarangire National Park, road Tarangire camp-Babati, 1 ml. from camp,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">H.M. Richards 24817</emphasis>
(EA, K). Morogoro: Kilosa district,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Elphons">Elphon's</normalizedToken>
Pass,
<geoCoordinate degrees="7" direction="south" minutes="22" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-7.366667">7°22'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="36" direction="east" minutes="42" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="36.7">36°42'E</geoCoordinate>
,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">J.C. Lovett &amp; T.C.E. Congdon 2931</emphasis>
(K, MO).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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