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
1639-4798
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Combretum gillettianum
Liben
(
Fig. 5
)
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).
FIG. 3. — Distribution map of
Combretum carringtonianum
Exell & Garcia
, arrow pointing at new Tanzanian location.
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
).