Combretum gillettianum Liben

Jongkind, Carel C. H., 2014, Notes on African Combretum Loefl. species (Combretaceae), Adansonia (3) 36 (2), pp. 315-327 : 319-320

Combretum gillettianum Liben

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Bulletin du Jardin botanique national de l’État à Bruxelles 35 (2): 177 (1965); Wickens, Flora of East Tropical Africa, Combretaceae : 22 (1973); Exell, Flora Zambesiaca 4: 116 (1978).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tanzania. Sumbawanga , 7°58’S, 31°36’E, Richards 10166 ( K) ; Kasanga , 8°27’S, 31°10’E, Richards 11813 ( K) ; Kasanga-Matai road, 8°27’S, 31°09’E, Schmidt et al. 1228 ( MO, WAG) .

Zambia. 1.6 km E of Mpulungu, Angus 773a ( BM, FHO, K) ; Yendwe R.valley escarpment, 8°40’S, 30°42’E, Fanshawe F 5619 ( BR, FHO, K) ; Kalambo Falls , 8°35’S, 31°13’E, Proctor 1864 ( K) ; Kambole escarpment, c. 8°50’S, 30°50’E, Richards 15260 ( K) ; Kalambo Falls , Sanana 1452 ( K, WAG) ; Mpulungu , White 3679 ( BM, BR, FHO, K) .

DESCRIPTION

Shrub or tree up to 18 m tall growing in Brachystegia woodland and deciduous thicket from 800 m up to 1300 m altitude.

NOTE

Selected specimens representing the collecting localities on the map.

After re-examination in several herbaria of all material called C. gillettianum it became clear that this species has an even more limited geographical distribution than thought before.Ŋe material cited by Liben (1968: 70) as C. gillettianum does not belong to this species but to C. acutifolium Exell. Ŋe real C. gillettianum is only found in a small area around the southern end of Lake Tanganyika, this area is divided in two by the border between Tanzania and Zambia ( Fig. 5 ).

Figures

FIG. 5. — Distribution map of Combretum gillettianum Liben.