taxonID	type	description	language	source
039F9F50187DFF9DFC96FC2DC28D78E0.taxon	description	[Borreria tetradon K. Schum. (1900) 322, nom. nud. — Based on: Schlechter 12475 (BR! [BR 0000008204813], K!, P! [P 00462479]), Democratic Republic of Congo, Dolo.] Perennial herb with woody plant base and woody taproot; stems 15 – 35 cm tall, rather unbranched, red-brown, 4 - ribbed, glabrous. Leaves decussate, sessile, fused with stipule base; blades lin- ear, 1.5 – 8 by 0.1 – 0.5 cm, glabrous or sparsely beset with short hairs above; apex acute; base slightly narrowed; leaf margins revolute, glabrous; main vein glabrous; secondary veins obscure, glabrous. Stipules fimbriate; basal part 1.5 – 5 mm long, glabrous or sparsely to densely beset with short hairs; fimbriae usually 3, c. 2 – 9 mm long, colleter-tipped. Inflorescences terminal and often axillary at 1 or 2 successive lower nodes, 0.7 – 1.5 cm diam, each inflorescence with 2 or 4 supporting leaves with stipules of supporting leaves often broadened and forming a cup around the developing flowers; bracts stipuliform with numerous setae c. 1 – 3 mm long. Flowers shortly pedicellate or sessile, arranged in many-flowered capitula. Calyx tube reduced to a rim; lobes 4, very short, 0.25 – 0.5 mm long in flowering stage, margins beset with short hairs. Corolla white; tube cylindrical, sometimes funnel-shaped at the upper part, 0.5 – 3 mm long, glabrous outside, a ring of hairs at 2 / 3 of the base inside; corolla lobes narrowly triangular to narrowly ovoid, 1 – 3 mm long, glabrous inside and outside or sparsely pubescent outside. Anthers ellipsoid, 0.7 – 1.2 mm long, well exserted; filaments 0.7 – 5 mm long. Pollen 8 - zonocolporate, suboblate to spheroidal; mean equatorial diameter (E) 40 – 45 µm; polar outline circular, slightly lobed; ectocolpi short and relatively broad; endoaperture an indistinct endocingulum; tectum perforate, granules or micro- spines uniformly present; inner nexine surface granular with numerous endocracks. Ovary ellipsoid to obovoid, 1 – 1.5 mm long, pubescent above; style 2 – 10 mm long, well exserted, glabrous; stigma capitate, c. 0.2 mm diam, papillose; nectary disc bipartite. Capsule ellipsoid to obovoid, c. 1.5 – 2 by 1 – 1.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent above, crowned with the persistent calyx lobes; dehiscence septicidally and loculicidally in the upper part, remnants of the septum remaining attached to the valves. Seeds unknown (seeds not fully mature).	en	Kok, R. P. J. de, Dessein, S. (2023): A new subspecies of Spermacoce bequaertii (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae). Blumea 68 (1): 63-65, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2023.68.01.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2023.68.01.06
039F9F50187FFF9EFFD9FE6BC6567A59.taxon	description	This subspecies differs from the typical subspecies in having smaller mature flowers (corolla tube 0.5 – 0.7 mm long, lobes 1 – 1.5 mm long; filaments 0.7 – 1.5 mm long; style 2 – 3 mm long) with a glabrous corolla tube inside. While the typical subspecies has larger mature flowers (corolla tube 2 – 3 mm long, lobes 2 – 3 mm long; filaments 3 – 5 mm long; style 6 – 10 mm long) with a corolla tube with a ring of hairs inside at 2 / 3 of the base. — Type: Devred 1866 (holo BR! [BR 0000008190352]), Democratic Republic of Congo, Kahemba-Vallée, Lutshima-Kwango (for paratypes see below). Inflorescences up to 0.7 cm diam. Corolla: tube cylindrical, 0.5 – 0.7 mm long, glabrous inside; lobes c. 1 – 1.5 mm long. Anthers ellipsoid, 0.7 – 0.9 mm long; filaments c. 0.7 – 1.5 mm long. Style 2 – 3 mm long. Distribution — Known only from the southern part of the Kasai district in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Habitat & Ecology — Grasslands and woodlands. Flowering: November to April; fruiting: unknown. Other representative specimens (Paratypes). DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, Callens 2287 (BR), Kasai, Entre Manzengele et Kibabu [? = Kibubu]; Devred 1555 (BR), Vallée Lini.	en	Kok, R. P. J. de, Dessein, S. (2023): A new subspecies of Spermacoce bequaertii (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae). Blumea 68 (1): 63-65, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2023.68.01.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2023.68.01.06
