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  1. Family: Rubiaceae Juss.
    1. Genus: Kohautia Cham. & Schltdl.

      1. Kohautia confusa (Hutch. & Dalziel) Bremek.

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Tropical Africa.

    [FTEA]

    Rubiaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1976

    Habit
    Erect annual herb, with branched glabrous or very slightly scabridulous stems, 35–70 cm. tall.
    Leaves
    Leaves linear, 3–6 cm. long, 0.8–1.5 mm. wide, narrowly acute at the apex, narrowed to the base, glabrous; stipular sheath 1–1.5 mm. long, with 2 filiform setae 0.7–1.5 mm. long.
    Inflorescences
    Inflorescences very lax panicles; pedicels very graceful, 1–1.5 cm. long, lengthening up to 2–4 cm. long in fruit, glabrous.
    Calyx
    Calyx-tube ellipsoid, 0.8 mm. long, papillose; lobes narrowly triangular, 1.3 mm. long, slightly scabridulous at the margins.
    Corolla
    Corolla said to be red; tube 4.5 mm. long, minutely papillate, the widened part 1.5 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, glabrous inside; lobes 1.3 mm. long, 0.7 mm. wide.
    Pistil
    Style 1.3 mm. long; stigma-lobes 1.7 mm. long.
    Fruits
    Capsule subglobose, 3 mm. in diameter, glabrous.
    Seeds
    Seeds chestnut, angular, 0.3 mm. long.
    Distribution
    T4
    [FWTA]

    Rubiaceae, F. N. Hepper & R. W. J. Keay. Flora of West Tropical Africa 2. 1963

    Habit
    Erect slender-branched herb 1-2 ft. high
    Flowers
    Flowers dull red or whitish.
    [FZ]

    Rubiaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora Zambesiaca 5:1. 1989

    Habit
    Annual, slender laxly branched herbs 20–70 cm. tall; stems ± glabrous to roughly papillose.
    Leaves
    Leaves 10–45 x (0.9)1.2–2(2.2) mm., linear to filiform, apex acute to apiculate, slightly narrowed to the base, ± glabrous with lower midrib papillose; stipular sheath (0.6)0.9–2(2.7) mm. long, ± sparsely papillose, the lobes (0.5)0.6–1.8(2.6) mm. long.
    Inflorescences
    Inflorescences lax, extensive, 2 distinctly pedicellate flowers at a node; peduncles c. 10–60 mm. long; pedicels slender (4.6)8.4–16.6(30) mm. long, lengthening after anthesis, glabrous to slightly scabrid.
    Calyx
    Calyx tube (0.9)1.2–2.8(2.9) x (0.7)1.1–2.7(3) mm., ellipsoid, verruculose to ± densely papillose, rarely ± glabrous; calyx lobes (0.9)1.3–2(2.3) mm. long and (0.3) 0.4–0.6(0.8) mm. wide at the base, narrowly triangular, margins scabrid.
    Corolla
    Corolla lobes above scarlet, red or light violet, paler beneath, tube outside and back of lobes ± densely papillose to ± glabrous; tube altogether (3.1)4.3–5.5(9.4) mm. long, the widened part (1.3)2–2.4(2.6) x (0.4)0.7–1.5(1.65) mm., the narrow part (0.2)0.4–0.75(0.9) mm. wide; lobes (1.5)1.7–3.9(4) x (0.6)1–2.5(2.7) mm., triangular-elliptic, not parted to the base, acute.
    Anthers
    Anthers c. 1–1.5 mm. long, narrowly ovoid; pollen 4(5)-colporate.
    Pistil
    Style and stigma as long as the narrow part of the tube; stigma lobes c. 1–1.8 mm. long.
    Fruits
    Capsules (2.7)2.8–3.6(3.8) x (2.9)3.1–3.8(4.1) mm., subglobose, ± glabrous.
    Seeds
    Seeds brownish, c. 0.4 mm. long, angular-subconic.
    [FWTA]

    Rubiaceae, F. N. Hepper & R. W. J. Keay. Flora of West Tropical Africa 2. 1963

    Habit
    Slender erect herb 1-2 ft. high, with grey scabrid stems
    Flowers
    Flowers bright scarlet or light mauve
    Ecology
    In cultivated ground.

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia

    Kohautia confusa (Hutch. & Dalziel) Bremek. appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    Jan 11, 1949 Heudelot [220], Gambia K000414260 lectotype

    First published in Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch., Afd. Natuurk., Sect. 2, 48(2): 89 (1952)

    Accepted by

    • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
    • Lebrun, J.P., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
    • Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
    • Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
    • Lebrun, J.P. (1973). Énumération des plantes vasculaires du Sénégal: 1-209. Maisons Alfort: Institut d'élevage et de médecine vétérinaire des pays tropicaux.

    Literature

    Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • in Verb. K. Nederl. Akad. Wetensch., Afd., Natuurk., sect. 2, 48: 89 (1952).
    Kew Backbone Distributions
    • Lebrun, J.P., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
    • Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
    • Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
    • Lebrun, J.P. (1973). Énumération des plantes vasculaires du Sénégal: 1-209. Maisons Alfort: Institut d'élevage et de médecine vétérinaire des pays tropicaux.
    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • Bremek. in Verh. K. Nederl. Akad. Wet., Afd. Natuurk., ser. 2, 48 (2): 89 (1952).

    Sources

    Flora Zambesiaca
    Flora Zambesiaca
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    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    Flora of Tropical East Africa
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    Flora of West Tropical Africa
    Flora of West Tropical Africa
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    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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