Barleria kaessneri S. Moore (Moore 1909
Creators: name: Champluvier, Dominique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Acanthaceae
Barleria
Barleria kaessneri

description: <i>Barleria kaessneri</i> S. Moore (Moore 1909) – Type: D.R.Congo, District du Haut-Katanga, Niembe river, 27 May 1908, <i>Kässner</i> 3010, fl (holo-: BM; mixed with a specimen belonging to the genus <i>Phaulopsi</i> s). Suffrutescent plant or subshrub 15–30 cm high from a woody rootstock; stem with short stiff antrorse hairs. Lamina of the leaves chartaceous or thick-fleshy, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 5–10.5 × 1.4–3 cm, obtuse to rounded at the tip, cuneate to slightly attenuate at the base, glabrous or subglabrous, scabridulous above, with adpressed stiff hairs on the nerves to subglabrous, pellucid-punctate below, glaucousgreen at least when dry; leaves subsessile or petiole up to 5 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, capitate or in short spikes up to 7 cm long; bracts orbicular, more rarely elliptic, similar to the largest calyx lobes of many <i>Barleria</i>, imbricate, obtuse to rounded or more rarely acute at the tip, puberulent and glandular outside and with sparse short stiff hairs and sometimes glandular inside, 12–23 × 10–18 mm, the smaller towards the apex of inflorescence, median nerve and lateral curved nerves well marked; calyx with posticous lobe elliptic, acute at the tip, 16–17 × 5–6.5 mm; anticous lobe narrowly elliptic, acute or shortly bifid at the tip, 17–18 × 5 mm; lateral lobes linear-elliptic 17 × 2 mm, all puberulent and glandular, light green; corolla violet, mauve, pale blue or white flushed with violet and with violet markings, 3.3 cm long, with very unequal lobes; tube 14 mm long, (4–)5–6 mm wide at the throat, upper lobes narrow, elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, 15 × 3.5 mm; median lower lobe widely elliptic, 17 × 10 mm; lateral lobes elliptic, 18 × 8 mm; stamens two, filament 19 mm long, anther 2.75 mm long; style 24 mm long, stigma cylindrical. Capsule pale cream to yellowish, pyriform, puberulent, 13 mm long, including a beak 6 mm long. Seeds two, with scale-like waved fascicules of light brown or cream hairs. Fig. 3D. <b>Distribution</b> – Linking species of the Zambezian centre of endemism and the Guineo-Congolian/Zambezian Regional Transition Zone. Fig. 12. <b>Other collections examined – D.R.Congo. District du Bas-Katanga</b>: Lupiala, alt. 890 m, Jun. 1948, <i>de Witte</i> 4037, fl (BR, K). <b>District du Haut-Katanga</b>: Muniama, Apr. 1957, <i>Detilleux</i> 778, fl (BR); Moba–Kapona, Jul. 1957, <i>Devred</i> 3495, fr (BR); Katanga, s.l., s.d., <i>Duvigneaud</i> 3636, 3649 (BRLU); entre Ruwe et Wasela, alt. 1350 m, Apr. 1971, <i>Malaisse</i> 6918, fl (BR); rivière Luiswishi, près de Kumanwa, alt. 1150 m, May 1985, <i>Malaisse &amp; Goetghebeur</i> 466, fl (BR); Kafubu, Apr. 1927, <i>Quarré</i> 283, fl (BR); rivière Kisanga, Katuba, Jun. 1935, <i>Quarré</i> 4533, fl (BR); piste Kolwezi–ancien bac de la Lualaba, à 11,875 km du début de piste, Apr. 1987, <i>Schaijes</i> 3464, fl (BR). <b>Zambia</b>: Walamba distr., May 1954, <i>Fanshawe</i> 1255, fr (K, BR); Kitwe, Mar. 1955, <i>Fanshawe</i> 2223, fl (K); ibid., May 1967, <i>Fanshawe</i> 10072, fl (K); ibid., Jul. 1967, <i>Mutimushi</i> 1975, fr (K); ibid., Apr. 1969, <i>Mutimushi</i> 3036, fl (K); Ndola, alt. 1220 m, May 1961, <i>Wilberforce</i> 113, fl (K). <b>Habitat</b> – Miombos, e.a. with <i>Brachystegia bussei</i>, chipya woodlands, bushy savannas, on outcrops or sandy-gravelly soils, alt. 890–1350 m.
description: Published as part of <i>Dominique Champluvier, 2011, New and overlooked Acanthaceae taxa from D. R. Congo, Rwanda and Burundi: (1) the genus Barleria, pp. 82-95 in Plant Ecology and Evolution 144 (1)</i> on pages 94-95, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.2011.388, http://zenodo.org/record/1486150
description: {"references": ["Moore S. (1909) Alabastra Diversa part XVIII. Journal of Botany 47: 295."]}