Vitex buchananii Gurke
Creators: name: Meerts, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Lamiaceae
Vitex
Vitex buchananii

description: <b>2.</b> <i>Vitex buchananii</i> Baker ex Gürke (Gürke 1895: 339); Baker (1900: 319); Pieper (1928: 53); White (1962: 371); Verdcourt (1992: 54); Lebrun &amp; Stork (1997: 524); Sales (2001: 191; 2005: 75); Coates Palgrave &amp; Coates Palgrave (2005: 981); Meerts (2016: 231). – Type: Malawi, <i>Buchanan</i> 782 (holo-: B †; iso-: Gbarcode G 00016805, US barcode US 00119244). <i>Vitex robynsii</i> De Wild. (De Wildeman 1929a: 13); Moldenke (1957: 116). – Type: D.R. Congo, Haut-Katanga, Kasenga, vers 970 m, savane arbustive, 8 Apr. 1926, <i>Robyns</i> 1913 (lecto-: BR barcode BR 0000008906168, designated by Moldenke <i>in schedis</i>; isolecto-: BR barcode BR 0000008906151). Asarmentose shrub, not myrmecophilous; twigs pubescent, solid. Leaflets 5, pubescent on both surfaces. Inflorescence of thyrses grouped in a terminal panicle. Fruit c. 6–8 mm diam., with golden-yellow outer layer exfoliating at maturity; calyx cupuliform, clasping fruit base. <b>Distribution</b> – Tropical E Africa, from Tanzania to Mozambique southwards and to D.R. Congo westwards.
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 381, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.2018.1504, http://zenodo.org/record/7664390
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