Pilostyles aethiopica Welwitsch, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 27: 66-70. 1871 = Berlinianche aethiopica (Welw.) Vattimo-Gil, 2014

Bellot, Sidonie & Renner, Susanne S., 2014, The systematics of the worldwide endoparasite family Apodanthaceae (Cucurbitales), with a key, a map, and color photos of most species, PhytoKeys 36, pp. 41-57 : 49

5. Pilostyles aethiopica Welwitsch, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 27: 66-70. 1871 = Berlinianche aethiopica (Welw.) Vattimo-Gil nom. inval.

Pilostyles holtzii Engler, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 46: 293. 1912 = Berlinianche holtzii (Engl.) Vattimo-Gil, not validly published. Type: Tanzania, Kilimatinde, July 1907, parasitic on Berlinia eminii Taub., W. Holtz 1422 (B, destroyed during World War II), syn. nov. (based on the protologue).

Syntypes.

Angola, Huila, 12 May 1860, parasitic on Berlinia paniculata Benth. = Pseudoberlinia paniculata (Benth.) P.A.Duvign., F. M. J. Welwitsch 529, 529b (C, G).

Note.

Tepals pink to brown, in 3 to 4 whorls each with 3-6 tepals. Male flowers with 1 or 2 ring(s) of ca. 15 pollen sacs, stamen filaments free from the central column (Fig. 6F), hair cushion at the basis of the inner tepals ( Blarer et al. 2004). Growing in branches of Julbernardia and Brachystegia , maybe also on Berlinia , Westia and Pseudoberlinia , in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Angola and Malawi ( Figs 2 , 3 ).

Figures

Figure 2. Geographic distribution of Apodanthaceae based on label information from 785 herbarium collections.

Figure 3. Phylogenetic relationships among the hosts of Apodanthaceae (legume relationships from Wojciechowski et al. 2006) and among the species of Apodanthaceae (from Bellot and Renner in review). Identical colors link parasite species and their host (s) and are also used in Figure 2. Dashed lines represent associations with rarely reported hosts; hosts in bold are the most common ones.