Combretum obovatum F.Hoffmann

Jongkind, Carel C. H., 2014, Notes on African Combretum Loefl. species (Combretaceae), Adansonia (3) 36 (2), pp. 315-327 : 323

Combretum obovatum F.Hoffmann

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Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora Central-Ost-Afrika: 28 (1889); Wickens, Flora of East Tropical Africa, Combretaceae : 56 (1973); Exell, Flora Zambesiaca 4: 147 (1978). — Type: Tanzania, Tabora Distr., Igonda, fl., X.1882, Böhm 140a (holo-, B, destroyed; lecto-, Z, designated here). Combretum lasiocarpum Engler & Diels, Monographieen afrikanischer Pflanzen Familien und Gattungen 3: 96 (1899), syn. nov.— Type: Mozambique,Zambesi R, near Boroma, fr., II.1892, Menyhart 678 (holo-, Z; iso-, W).

NOTE

It is not strange that C. lasiocarpum is often confused with C. obovatum as Exell stated (1978: 158). Ŋe type specimen of C. lasiocarpum keys out without problem to C. obovatum in the Flora Zambesiaca because the fruits of the type specimen are not stiped. Ŋe fruits of the other collections cited with C. lasiocarpum in Flora Zambesiaca are stiped, and they belong either to C. mossambicense (Klotzsch) Engler or to C. andradae Exell & Garcia.

Figures

FIG. 7. — Distribution map of Combretum obovatum F.Hoffmann.