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<document ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6329170" ID-GBIF-Dataset="263ee2d7-d5c8-44d7-8285-e181f518f4df" ID-GBIF-Taxon="193858283" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6329170" approvedBy="tatiana" checkinTime="1646328299662" checkinUser="tatiana" docAuthor="Vorontsova, MS, Christenhusz, MJM, Kirika, P &amp; Muthoka, P" docDate="2010" docId="039087D1CA1F5339FD6ACB952F770B7D" docLanguage="en" docName="SystBot.35.4.894-906.pdf" docOrigin="Systematic Botany 35 (4)" docTitle="Solanum malindiense Vorontsova &amp; Christenhusz &amp; Kirika &amp; Muthoka 2010, sp. nov." docType="treatment" docVersion="7" lastPageId="11" lastPageNumber="905" masterDocId="FFA9FFA9CA155332FF87CE372C370F23" masterDocTitle="Three new species of Solanum from Kenya: using herbarium specimens to document environmental change." masterLastPageNumber="906" masterPageNumber="894" pageId="10" pageNumber="904" updateTime="1646868092134" updateUser="admin">
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<mods:namePart>Vorontsova, MS</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Christenhusz, MJM</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>EaDepartment of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, U. K.; Botanical Garden and Herbarium, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Kirika, P</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Muthoka, P</mods:namePart>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[749,997,1442,1464]" pageId="10" pageNumber="904">Solanum malindiense</emphasis>
Voronts.
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,
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—TYPE:
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:
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:
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!;
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Species
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<emphasis box="[860,1047,1573,1595]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="904">Solano usaramense</emphasis>
Dammer
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similis sed foliis lobatis (nec subintegris) et 1.52plo (nec 23) longioribus quam latioribus, baccis flavis (nec aurantiis) et 15mm vel ultra latis (nec 89 mm latis), pilis stellatis sparsis (nec densis) cum stipe ad maximum 0.1 mm tantum longis (nec 0.20.4 mm longis) differt.
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Scandent shrub to 2 m, armed, sparsely branched; young stems long, ascendant, densely stellate-pubescent; trichomes porrect, translucent, sessile or stalked, the stalks up to 0.1 mm, the rays 68, 0.10.2 mm, the midpoints same length as the rays or shorter, often reduced to globular glands; prickles 1 3 mm long, 11.5 mm wide at widest point, hooked, flattened at the base but conical at the apex, white-yellow to orange-brown; main branches ca. 5 mm in diam at base, glabrescent; bark smooth, greyish. Sympodial units difoliate, not geminate. Leaves simple, the blades 36 × 2.54 cm, 1.5 2 times longer than wide, ovate, chartaceous, drying discolorous, yellow-green to yellow-orange ordark red-green, densely stellate-pubescent abaxially; trichomes porrect, translucent, subsessile, the stalks less than 0.1 mm, the rays ca. 8, 0.15 0.2 mm, the midpoints same length as the rays or shorter, adaxially glabrescent, with reduced rays and midpoints; the blades unarmed or with 15 prickles on the abaxial midvein and often 1 prickle on the adaxial midvein; midvein raised abaxially, flat adaxially, the primary veins 35 pairs, spreading at 4560° to the midvein, the tertiary venation visible on both sides of the leaf; base cordate or sometimes rounded, often oblique; margin subentire to sinuate, the lobes 24 on each side, up to 5 mm long, extending up to 1/3 of the distance to the midvein, broadly rounded; apex rounded to obtuse; petiole 12 cm, 1/21/4 of the leaf length, slender, with 04 prickles. Inflorescences apparently terminal or lateral, 24 cm long, not branched, 310-flowered, with 14 flowers open at a time, stellate-pubescent like the young stem, unarmed or with a few small recurved prickles; peduncle 15 mm long; rachis 0.32 cm long; pedicels 510 mm long, slender, articulated less than 0.5 mm from base, stellate-pubescent like the young stem, unarmed or with 12 prickles; pedicel scars broad flat stumps, spaced 24 mm apart. Buds ovoid to ellipsoid. Plants andromonoecious, with 1(2) long-styled flowers at the base of the inflorescence, the flowers 5-merous. Calyx 58 mm long, obconical, divided for 1/32/3 of its length, the lobes 3.55 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide at base, equal, longdeltoid, apically long-acuminate, with no venation visible or with a raised midvein, densely stellate-pubescent like the young stem, unarmed or with up to 20 thin straight prickles to 2.5 mm long. Corolla 23.7 cm in diam, white to pale mauve, drying orange-brown, stellate, tearing unevenly at anthesis, opening fully but not reflexed, lobed for ¾-4/5 of its length, the lobes 812 × 45 mm, long-deltoid, apically acute, with a dark midvein, stellate-pubescent abaxially, the trichomes porrect, orange-translucent, subsessile, the rays ca. 8, 0.15 0.25 mm, undulate, the midpoints shorter than the rays, lengthening towards corolla lobe apices, mostly glabrous adaxially, the trichomes variously reduced and irregular. Stamens with the filament tube 22.5 mm; free portion of the filaments ca. 1.5 mm; anthers 89.5 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide, free, equal, tapering, poricidal at the tips, the pores small, not lengthening into longitudinal slits with age, the anther surface drying smooth to papillose, dark red-brown to orangebrown. Ovary stellate-pubescent in the upper 1/2 only; style 1.31.5 cm long on long-styled flowers, curved, the upper 1/3 dark and thick, exserted 35 mm beyond the anthers, stellatepubescent in the lower 2/3; stigma clavate, papillose. Fruit a globose berry, 1(2) per infructescence, ca. 15 mm in diam, spherical throughout development, the pericarp thin, smooth, shiny, sparsely stellate-pubescent in the apical 1/2 during development, becoming glabrous at maturity, marbled green and white when young becoming yellow at maturity, drying orange-brown or dark brown; fruiting pedicels ca. 1.5 cm long, 0.81 mm wide at base, herbaceous becoming woody, pendulous, unarmed or with a few straight or curved prickles; calyx accrescent to ca. 10 mm long, covering ca. 1/3 of the mature fruit, with 1030 straight or curved prickles. Seeds ca. 50100 perberry, 2.53.5 × 22.5 × ca. 0.3 mm, flattened-reniform, often somewhat irregular in outline, brown, the surface smooth or with raised outlines of cells or small pits.
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,
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I-L.
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[773,1046,176,198]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Distribution and Habitat</emphasis>
</emphasis>
Kenya, Coast province: coastal bush, dunes and sand, often on coral, at low altitudes.
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[773,914,264,286]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Etymology—</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Vorontsova &amp; Christenhusz &amp; Kirika &amp; Muthoka" authorityYear="2010" box="[915,1126,264,285]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="11" pageNumber="905" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="malindiense">Solanum malindiense</taxonomicName>
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is named after the town of Malindi near the site of its first discovery.
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<paragraph blockId="11.[749,1404,117,1118]" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[781,1152,319,339]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Representative Specimens Examined—</emphasis>
KENYA. Coast Province: Watamu, Duchess of Gloucester Girls School, 23 Oct 1967,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Anonymous 14</emphasis>
(EA); Watamu, Duchess of Gloucester Girls School, 22 Oct 1967,
<emphasis box="[749,877,391,411]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Anonymous 39</emphasis>
(EA); Manda Island, 5 Aug 1982,
<emphasis box="[1198,1397,391,410]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Brathay Expedition 107</emphasis>
(EA); Kitwa Pembe Hill and vicinity, 15 Jul 1974,
<emphasis box="[1198,1397,415,435]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Faden &amp; Faden 74/1072</emphasis>
(EA, K); Kilifi, 28 Nov 1945,
<emphasis box="[1011,1112,439,458]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Jeffery K415</emphasis>
(EA); Kilifi, 22 Oct 1948,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Jeffery K600</emphasis>
(EA); Nairobi Ranch, Ras Wanawali Sabaa, 18 Oct 2004,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Luke &amp; Luke 10326K</emphasis>
(EA); 4 ml Nof Malindi, 3 Nov 1961,
<emphasis box="[1143,1303,487,507]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Polhill &amp; Paulo 709</emphasis>
(K); Shela, 20 Oct 1984,
<emphasis box="[860,987,511,530]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Robertson 3776</emphasis>
(EA).
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<subSubSection pageId="11" pageNumber="905" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="11.[749,1404,117,1118]" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">
<emphasis box="[773,1070,539,560]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[773,860,539,560]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Notes—</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
has undulate leaves of consistent shape, long-acuminate calyx lobes, curved prickles covering the calyx from late bud onwards, and a pubescent ovary with stellate trichomes persisting until the developing fruit reaches 1 cm in diameter.
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<emphasis box="[1025,1234,656,677]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Solanum malindiense</emphasis>
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is the northern continuation of
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<emphasis box="[918,1056,686,707]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">S. usaramense</emphasis>
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populations in the coastal areas of Mozambique, Tanzania, and southern Kenya, with wider and more lobed leaves, larger yellow berries, and sparse indumentum. The name
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<emphasis box="[965,1196,773,794]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Solanum monotanthum</emphasis>
Dammer
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has been erroneously applied to populations of
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<emphasis box="[1162,1369,803,825]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">Solanum usaramense</emphasis>
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in coastal Kenya and Tanzania. Type material of
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<emphasis box="[1235,1397,832,854]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">S. monotanthum</emphasis>
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found in Universität Göttingen suggests the name
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">S. monotanthum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is actually a synonym of
<taxonomicName authority="Vatke" authorityName="Vatke" box="[1109,1326,891,913]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="11" pageNumber="905" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="zanzibarense">
<emphasis box="[1109,1259,891,912]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">S. zanzibarense</emphasis>
Vatke
</taxonomicName>
and is not synonymous with either
<taxonomicName box="[1066,1207,921,942]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="11" pageNumber="905" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="usaramense">
<emphasis box="[1066,1207,921,942]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">S. usaramense</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or
<taxonomicName authorityName="Vorontsova &amp; Christenhusz &amp; Kirika &amp; Muthoka" authorityYear="2010" box="[1247,1391,920,942]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="11" pageNumber="905" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="malindiense">
<emphasis box="[1247,1391,920,942]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">S. malindiense</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The habit and yellowish regularly undulate leaves of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Vorontsova &amp; Christenhusz &amp; Kirika &amp; Muthoka" authorityYear="2010" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="11" pageNumber="905" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="malindiense">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">S. malindiense</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are reminiscent of two other species of East African coasts: the sympatric
<taxonomicName box="[987,1139,1008,1030]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="11" pageNumber="905" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="zanzibarense">
<emphasis box="[987,1139,1008,1030]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">S. zanzibarense</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authority="A. E. Gonc." authorityName="A. E. Gonc." class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="11" pageNumber="905" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="litoraneum">
<emphasis box="[1199,1334,1008,1030]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="905">S. litoraneum</emphasis>
A. E. Gonç.
</taxonomicName>
from coastal Mozambique and Tanzania, although the corollas, anthers and fruit are larger than in either of these species.
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