Didymodoxa caffra

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rosales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Rosales

Didymodoxa caffra (Thunb.) Friis & Wilmot-Dear, Bol. Soc. Brot. sér. 2, 58: 210. (1985)

Basionym
- Urtica caffra Thunb., Prodr. Pl. Cap. 1: 31. (1794)
  - Type locality: South Africa.
  - Lectotype: (designated by Brown 1913: 80.): Thunberg, C.P. #s.n. "Urtica caffra beta". UPS -THUNB.
  - Syntype: Caput bonae Spei. LD LD1260325.

Homotypic
- Australina caffra (Thunb.) Prain, Ann. Bot. (U.K.) 27: 388. (1913).

Heterotypic (ref. Govaerts 2019, Hassler 2019)
- Australina acuminata Wedd., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 4, 1: 212. (1854)
  - Type locality: South Africa. Natal, Yellowood River.
  - Lectotype: (designated by Friis 1985: 210.): Drège #s.n., specimen marked "Parietaria cuneata E. M. a". P; Isolectotype: K.
- Didymodoxa acuminata (Wedd.) Wedd., Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 8: 549. (1855-56)
- Droguetia umbricola Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas C 164. (1895)
  - Type locality: Tanzania, Kilimandscharo, Marangu.
  - Holotype: Volkens #1700. B (destroyed); Isotypes: BM, G, K.
- Pouzolzia erythraeae Schweinf., Bull. Herb. Boissier 4(App. 2): 146. (1896)
  - Type locality: Ethiopia. Lava valley.
  - Holotype: Schweinfurth #1658. B (destroyed).
- Pouzolzia piscicelliana Buscal. & Muschl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 49(3-4): 465. (1913)
  - Type locality: Zambia /Zaire. Buana Mukuba – Sekontui, 1200 m.
  - Holotype: Hélène d'Aosta #512. B (destroyed).
(+ ref. Hassler 2019)
- Didymodoxa cuneata Wedd., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 16(1): 235(61). (1869), nom. illeg. superfl., based on Australina acuminata.
- Parietaria cuneata E.Mey. ex Wedd., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 4, 1: 212 (1854), nom. inval. in syn. (non Parietaria cuneata Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Krauss, Flora 28: 88. 1845)

Native distribution areas:

Africa
- West-Central Tropical Africa
  - Zaïre
- Northeast Tropical Africa
  - Eritrea, Ethiopia
- East Tropical Africa
  - Kenya, Tanzania
- South Tropical Africa
  - Zambia
- Southern Africa
  - Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Swaziland

Friis, I. 1986 ["1985"]. Two new taxa and a new combination in the Urticaceae for the Flora Zambesiaca. Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana, sér. 2, 58: 201–214. Online. Reference page. : 210.

Thunberg, C.P. 1794. Prodromus Plantarum Capensium, quas in promontorio Bonae Spei Africes, annis 1772–1775, collegit Carol. Pet. Thunberg. Pars prior pp. [i–xii, 1]–83 [84 err.]. Uppsala, J. Edman. BHL Reference page. : 31

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Didymodoxa caffra in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Nov. 25.

Hassler, M. 2019. Didymodoxa caffra. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (2019). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi, J., Penev L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Nov. 25.

International Plant Names Index. 2019. Didymodoxa caffra. Published online. Accessed Nov. 25 2019.

Tropicos.org 2019. Didymodoxa caffra . Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Nov. 25.

USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Didymodoxa caffra in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed on 09-Oct-10.

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