- Family:
- Plantaginaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Callitriche L.
Callitriche oreophila Schotsman
[FTEA]
Callitrichaceae, Inga Hedberg & Olov Hedberg. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2003
- Morphology General Habit
- Stem 10–35 cm long in water or 3–20 cm long on mud.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves submerged, floating or aerial, elliptic to spathulate, up to 11 mm long and 5 mm wide but often much smaller, 3–7-veined; petiole usually 3-veined.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers solitary, in the axils of leaves; bracteoles 2, falcate; stamens at dehiscence 1–2 mm, after dehiscence up to 7 mm long; anthers 0.5–0.6 mm long; styles up to 2 mm long, erect or spreading.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit suborbicular, 1.6–1.8 mm long and 1.6–2 mm wide, with a distinct, symmetrically winged mericarp.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Pollen
- Pollen reticulum not as wide as the clavae; clavae irregularly triangular, surface uneven.
- Figures
- Fig. 1/1–4 (p. 3).
- Habitat
- In stagnant or running water in ponds or small streams and on mud or moist soil; 1150–3250 m
- Distribution
- K1 K3 K4 K6 T2 T3 T7 U2 W Tropical Africa,
Native to:
Burundi, Cameroon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre
Callitriche oreophila Schotsman appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 55: 292 (1985)
Accepted by
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Hedberg & Hedberg in Fl. Ethiopia 2, 1: 427, fig. 52/1–8 (2000).
- Schotsman in Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 55: 222, t. 7 (1985).
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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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