- Family:
- Polygonaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Oxygonum Burch. ex Campd.
Oxygonum leptopus Mildbr.
[FTEA]
Polygonaceae, R. A. Graham. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1958
- Morphology General Habit
- A straggling perennial with a thick, perennial, gnarled, woody rootstock.
- Morphology Stem
- Annual stems reddish, densely pubescent, becoming ± glabrous above.
- Morphology Leaves Ocrea
- Ocreae ± 5 mm. long, pubescent, membranous, truncate with a terminal fringe of setae 5–7 mm. long.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves shortly but clearly petiolate, ovate to ovate-deltoid, marginally entire, 3.2–3.5 × 1.5–2.0 cm., apically subacute with the midrib excurrent as a mucro, basally rounded or ± so to the petiole, densely pustular, pubescent only on the midribs of both faces.
- Morphology Leaves Petiole
- Petioles densely pubescent, 2 mm. long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence very long, slender (50–) 70–125 cm. long, arcuate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Bracts 3–4 mm. long, ± glabrous, up to 2.8 (–3) cm. apart, sometimes in semi-adjacent pairs, fringed with setae up to 2 mm. long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Pedicels 5–9 to each bract; those of hermaphrodite flowers very long, 1.5–2.5 (–3) cm., and usually only 1–2 per bract; of male flowers 3–5 mm. long, filiform. Tepals ovate-oblong or oblong, 2.75 mm. long (2.53 mm.; styles clearly exceeding the stamens, fide Mildbr.). Short styles 1 mm. long, connate 0.4 mm.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- (Immature fruit fusiform-trigonous, villous, with three small erect prickles, fide Mildbr.)
- Habitat
- Dry, sandy woodland, frequent in low grass; about 400 m.
- Distribution
- unknown apart from the type locality T6
Native to:
Tanzania
Oxygonum leptopus Mildbr. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 11: 810 (1933)
Accepted by
- Graham, R.A. (1958). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Polygonaceae: 1-40.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Graham, R.A. (1958). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Polygonaceae: 1-40.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Mildbr. in Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahelm 11: 810 (1933).
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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