Vitex buchananii Baker ex Gürke

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 : 381

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5091/plecevo.2018.1504

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643163

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D15322-0050-1E4F-FC8C-50F8FA80FC95

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scientific name

Vitex buchananii Baker ex Gürke
status

 

2. Vitex buchananii Baker ex Gürke View in CoL View at ENA

( Gürke 1895: 339); Baker (1900: 319); Pieper (1928: 53); White (1962: 371); Verdcourt (1992: 54); Lebrun & Stork (1997: 524); Sales (2001: 191; 2005: 75); Coates Palgrave & Coates Palgrave (2005: 981); Meerts (2016: 231).

– Type: Malawi, Buchanan 782 (holo-: B † ; iso-: Gbarcode G 00016805, US barcode US 00119244) .

Vitex robynsii De Wild. View in CoL ( De Wildeman 1929a: 13); Moldenke (1957: 116).

– Type: D.R. Congo, Haut-Katanga, Kasenga , vers 970 m, savane arbustive, 8 Apr. 1926, Robyns 1913 (lecto-: BR barcode BR 0000008906168, designated by Moldenke in schedis ; isolecto-: BR barcode BR 0000008906151).

Asarmentose shrub, not myrmecophilous; twigs pubescent, solid. Leaflets 5, pubescent on both surfaces. Inflorescence of thyrses grouped in a terminal panicle. Fruit c. 6–8 mm diam., with golden-yellow outer layer exfoliating at maturity; calyx cupuliform, clasping fruit base.

Distribution – Tropical E Africa, from Tanzania to Mozambique southwards and to D.R. Congo westwards.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Lamiaceae

Genus

Vitex

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