Leptactina benguelensis

Neuba, Danho Fursy Rodelec, Malan, Djah François & Kouadio, Yao Lambert, 2014, Notes sur le genre Africain Leptactina Hook. f. (Rubiaceae, Pavetteae), Adansonia (3) 36 (1), pp. 121-153 : 124-125

2. Leptactina benguelensis

(Welw. ex Benth. & Hook.f.) R.D.Good

Journal of Botany 64, suppl. 2: 9 (1926). — Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire: Tanganyika territory 5 (2): 504 (1949); Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 8: 450 (1954). — White, Forest flora of Northern Rhodesia: 412 (1962). — Verdcourt, Kew Bulletin 33: 493 (1979). — Figueiredo, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 156: 565 (2008).

Heinsia benguelensis Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f., Genera Plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus 2: 77 (1873). — Hiern, in Oliver, Flora of Tropical Africa 3: 82 (1877); Catalogue of the African Plants collected by Dr. F. Welwitsch in 1853-61 II: 455 (1898). — Figueiredo, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 156: 565 (2008). — Type: Angola, Humpata to Mumpulla, Welwitsch 2563 (holo-, LISU!; iso-, BM!, K!).

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Leptactina heinsioides Hiern , in Oliver, Flora of Tropical Africa 3: 88 (1877).— K.Schum., Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 30: 412 (1901). — Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire: Tanganyika territory 5 (2): 505 (1949). — non S. Moore, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 40: 79 (1911). — Type: Tanzania, south part of Lake Tanganyika, Cameron s.n. (holo-, K!). Leptactina tetraloba N.E.Br. , Gardeners’ Chronicle, sér. 2, 23: 391 (1885). — Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire: Tanganyika territory 5 (2): 505 (1949). — Type: Tanzania, Usagara Mountains, Kwa Chiropa, Hannington s. n. (holo-, K!). Leptactina lanceolata K.Schum., Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 23: 431 (1896). — K.Schum. in Warburg, Kunene-Sambesi- Expedition: 382 (1903). — Type: Angola, Malange (as

Malandsche), Mechow 229 (holo-, B†).

Leptactina benguelensis var. glabra R.D.Good , Journal

of Botany 64, suppl. 2: 9 (1926). — Type: Angola ,

Cassuango, Gossweiler 3251 (holo-, BM!; iso-, K!).

Leptactina benguelensis subsp. pubescens Verdc., Kew Bul-

letin 33: 493 (1979). — Type: Zimbabwe, Umvukwes ,

Chrome Hills, E of Imshi Mine, Leach 11274 (holo-,

K!; iso-, COI!).

DISTRIBUTION. — Angola, République Démocratique du Congo, Burundi, Tanzanie, Zambie, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe et Botswana ( Fig. 2).

HABITAT. — Forêts claires, rarement dans les savanes arborées ouvertes.