Notes on African Combretum Loefl. species (Combretaceae)
Author
Jongkind, Carel C. H.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/a2014n2a11
journal article
10.5252/a2014n2a11
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Combretum obovatum
F.Hoffmann
(
Fig. 7
)
Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora Central-Ost-Afrika
: 28 (1889); Wickens,
Flora of East Tropical Africa
,
Combretaceae
: 56 (1973); Exell,
Flora Zambesiaca
4: 147 (1978). —
Type
:
Tanzania
,
Tabora Distr.
, Igonda, fl.,
X.1882
,
Böhm 140a
(holo-, B, destroyed; lecto-, Z, designated here).
Combretum lasiocarpum
Engler & Diels,
Monographieen
afrikanischer Pflanzen Familien und Gattungen
3: 96 (1899), syn. nov.—
Type
:
Mozambique
,Zambesi R, near Boroma, fr.,
II.1892
,
Menyhart 678
(holo-, Z; iso-, W).
NOTE
It is not strange that
C. lasiocarpum
is often confused with
C. obovatum
as Exell stated (1978: 158). Ŋe
type
specimen of
C. lasiocarpum
keys out without problem to
C. obovatum
in the
Flora Zambesiaca
because the fruits of the
type
specimen are not stiped. Ŋe fruits of the other collections cited with
C. lasiocarpum
in
Flora Zambesiaca
are stiped, and they belong either to
C. mossambicense
(Klotzsch) Engler
or to
C. andradae
Exell & Garcia.