- Family:
- Polygonaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Oxygonum Burch. ex Campd.
Oxygonum schliebenii Mildbr.
[FTEA]
Polygonaceae, R. A. Graham. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1958
- Morphology General Habit
- A straggling, perhaps climbing, perennial.
- Morphology Stem
- Stems decumbent, rather woody towards the base, varying from densely pubescent with brown hairs to glabrous.
- Morphology Leaves Ocrea
- Ocreae 0.5–0.7 mm. long, ± densely pubescent, membranous, terminally truncate with a fringe of rather wavy setae of similar length.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves sessile, rather like those of O. salicifolium, but broader, elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate-elliptic, 5–6 × 1.1–1.8 cm., very acute, terminally mucronate, marginally entire or slightly sinuous, the midrib of lower face often pale brown, glabrous or thinly pubescent on the midrib below.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence slender, elongated, somewhat arcuate, 50 or more cm. long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Bracts glabrous, fringed with setae 1–1.25 mm. long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Pedicel
- Pedicels pubescent; those of male flowers 3–6 mm. long; those of hermaphrodite flowers noticeably very long, 17–24 mm.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Tepals of long-styled flowers 2 mm. long, linear-lanceolate; styles (only long styles seen) 3.75 mm. long, connate for 1.5 mm.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit fusiform, densely pubescent when young, later glabrescent, up to 6 mm. long, armed at the centre with 3 spreading prickles, 3 mm. long, on the angles and with 1–3 intermediate subsidiary prickles up to 2 mm. long on each intervening face.
- Habitat
- “Roadsides”; perhaps a plant of disturbed ground; 0–1400 m.
- Distribution
- no certain records apart from the above and the type, but likely to be more widespread T7 T8
Native to:
Tanzania
Oxygonum schliebenii Mildbr. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 14: 103 (1938)
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 14: 103 (1938).
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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