Vitex mombassae Vatke, 1882

Meerts, Pierre, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Vitex (Lamiaceae) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Plant Ecology and Evolution 151 (3), pp. 380-392 : 388

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scientific name

Vitex mombassae Vatke
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12. Vitex mombassae Vatke View in CoL View at ENA

( 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. View in CoL ( 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.

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Beentje H. J. (1994) Kenya trees, shrubs and lianas. Nairobi, National Museums of Kenya.

Bredenkamp C. L., Botha D. J. (1996) FSA contributions 7: Verbena- ceae: Vitex. Bothalia 26: 141 - 151. https: // doi. org / 10.4102 / abc. v 26 i 2.698

Cabral C. (2013) Multidisciplinary taxonomic revision in the genus Vitex L. in Africa. Saarbrucken, Lambert Academic Publishing.

Coates Palgrave K, Coates Palgrave M. (2005) Trees of Southern Africa. 3 rd Ed. Cape Town, Struik Nature.

De Wildeman E. (1903 a) Etudes sur la flore du Katanga. Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, Botanique, Serie IV, vol. 3: 81 - 241.

De Wildeman E. (1912 b) Documents pour l'etude de la geo-botanique congolaise. Bulletin de la Societe Royale de Botanique de Belgique 51 (3): 1 - 406.

De Wildeman E. (1914 a) Decades novarum specierum florae Katan- gensis. XIX - XXI. Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis 13: 137 - 147. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / fedr. 19140130904

De Wildeman E. (1914 c) Notes sur la flore du Katanga. Annales de la Societe scientifique de Bruxelles 38: 353 - 465.

De Wildeman E. (1921) Contribution a l'etude de la flore du Ka- tanga. Bruxelles, Comite special du Katanga. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11020

De Wildeman E. (1929 b) Contribution a la flore du Katanga. Sup- plement 2. Bruxelles, Comite special du Katanga.

Delevoy G. (1929) La question forestiere au Katanga. II. Les essences forestieres au Katanga. Bruxelles, Comite Special du Katanga.

Durand T., Durand H. (1909) Sylloge Florae Congolanae [Phanerogamae]. Bulletin du Jardin botanique de l'Etat a Bruxelles 2: 1 - 716. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3666516

Lebrun J. - P., Stork A. (1997) Enumeration des plantes a fleurs d'Afrique. IV. Geneve, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la ville de Geneve.

Meerts P., Hasson M. (2016) Arbres et arbustes du Haut-Katanga. Meise, Agentschap Plantentuin Meise.

Meerts P. (2016) An annotated checklist to the trees and shrubs of the Upper Katanga (D. R. Congo). Phytotaxa 258: 201 - 250. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / phytotaxa. 258.3.1

Pieper W. (1928) Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der afrikanischen Vitex - Arten mit Berucksichtigung der ubrigen. Botanische Jahrbucher fur Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzenge- ographie 62, Beibl. 141 ( 142 ): 1 - 91 (+ XIII tables).

Sales F. (2001) A synopsis of Vitex L. in the Flora Zambesiaca area. Kew Bulletin 56: 189 - 207. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 4119435

Sales F. (2005) Vitex. In: Pope E. V., Martins E. S. (eds) Flora Zam- besiaca 8 (7): 73 - 92. Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens.

Smith P., Allen Q. (2004) Field guide to the trees and shrubs of the miombo woodlands. Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens.

van Wyk B., van Wyk P. (1997) Field guide to trees of southern Africa. Cape Town, Struik nature.

Vatke W. (1882) Plantas in Itinere Africano ab J. M. Hildebrandt col- lectas determinare pergit. Verbenaceae. Linnaea 43: 526 - 540.

Verdcourt B. (1992) Verbenaceae. In: Polhill R. M. (ed) Flora of Tropical East Africa. Rotterdam, A. A. Balkema.

White F. (coll. Angus A.) (1962) Forest flora of Northern Rhodesia. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Lamiaceae

Genus

Vitex