Vitex mombassae Vatke 1882
Creators: name: Meerts, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Lamiaceae
Vitex
Vitex mombassae

description: <b>12.</b> <i>Vitex mombassae</i> Vatke (Vatke 1882: 533); Baker (1900: 326); De Wildeman (1903a: 121; 1912b: 367; 1921: 165; 1929b: 106); Durand &amp; Durand (1909: 437); Pieper (1928: 66); Delevoy (1929: 484); White (1962: 371); Verdcourt (1992: 64); (Beentje 1994: 623); Bredenkamp &amp; Botha (1996: 146); Lebrun &amp; Stork (1997: 525); van Wyk &amp; van Wyk (1997: 476); Sales (2001: 197; 2005: 87); Smith &amp; Allen (2004: 82); Coates Palgrave &amp; Coates Palgrave (2005: 983); Meerts &amp; Hasson (2016: 337); Meerts (2016: 231). – Type: “[Kenya] [Prope] Mombassa [in ora zanzibarensi], Jan. 1876, <i>Hildebrandt</i> 1972 (lecto-: BM barcode BM000839709 designated by Cabral (2013); isolecto-: K barcode K000192785, Wbarcode W 0008469). <i>Vitex mufutu</i> De Wild. (De Wildeman 1914a: 142; 1914c: 406; 1921: 165). – Type: D.R. Congo, Haut-Katanga, Etoile du Congo, Dec. 1911, <i>Hock</i> s.n. (holo-: BR barcode BR 0000008905451). Ashrub or a small tree. Young twigs orange to fulvous tomentose. Leaflets 3–5, petiolule 0(–5) mm; lamina obtuse to rounded at tip, pubescent on both surfaces. Inflorescence of dichasia, few flowered, branches yellowish pubescent; calyx 4–7 mm, yellowish woolly tomentose, corolla cream, mauve tinged, 10–20 mm, stamens very long protruding; ovary hairy; fruit c. 35 mm long. <b>Distribution</b> – Eand S Africa, from Kenya southwards to South Africa and westwards to D.R. Congo.
description: Published as part of <i>Meerts, Pierre, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Vitex (Lamiaceae) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pp. 380-392 in Plant Ecology and Evolution 151 (3)</i> on page 388, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.2018.1504, http://zenodo.org/record/7664390
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