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      FZ volume:9 part:5 (2001) Euphorbiaceae by S. Carter & L.C. Leach

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*Monadenium capitatum P.R.O. Bally*  
in Candollea 17: 26 (1959); Gen. Mon.: 34 (1961). —S. Carter in
F.T.E.A., Euphorbiaceae, part 2: 546, fig. 102/4–5 (1988); in Kew Bull.
55: 436 (2000). Type from Tanzania.

*Synonyms:*

Monadenium fanshawei P.R.O. Bally

Gen. Mon.: 26 (1961). Type: Zambia, 6 km from Kitwe, fl. 2.i.1957,
Fanshawe 2913 (K, holotype).

*Distribution:*

Zambia

N: Isoka, fl. 21.xii.1962, Fanshawe 7188 (K; NDO).
W: Kitwe, fr. 27.v.1967, Fanshawe 10087 (K; NDO).

*Range:*

Tanzania; 

*Habitat:*

Granite outcrops usually in shade of evergreen thickets, and in high
rainfall miombo 1200–1400 m.

*Description:*

Fleshy geophytic herb; with a tuberous tapering root, up to 16 × 6
cm.Stems annual, to 20–50(90) cm high, simple or branched only at the
base, minutely scabrid or occasionally glabrous.Leaves subsessile, 9–13
× 2.5–4 cm, oblanceolate to obovate; margin with small distant teeth,
sometimes gland-tipped; stipules c. 0.5 mm long, glandular.Cymes
axillary, subsessile, 1–2-forked; bracts free, ± equalling the
involucres in length, c. 5 × 4 mm, oblong, apex apiculate.Cyathia c. 5 ×
3.5 mm, with barrel-shaped involucres; glandular rim c. 1.5 mm high,
margin crenulate, white to pink; lobes c. 1.2 × 1.2 mm, rounded,
denticulate.Male flowers: bracteoles few, c. 1.75 mm long, filamentous,
laciniate; stamens c. 3 mm long.Female flower: styles c. 1 mm long, with
thickened bifid apices.Capsule c. 4.5 × 4 mm, acutely 3-lobed, smooth to
minutely papillose, exserted on a reflexed pedicel to 5 mm long.Seeds
2.2 × 1.2 mm, oblong, 4-angled, minutely verrucose, pale grey; caruncle
c. 1 mm wide, pointed, stipitate, yellow.

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