Malawi. Nyika National Park, without locality or collecting details (Mill 1979); Mwanda Mt., 2000, Winter 4159 (MAL). Lippia javanica (Burm.f.) Spreng. Lippia whytei Mold. Chichewa: chanzi, vumba; Yao: chisunganjeu, mchenjema Shrub to 4 m tall, softly woody; leaves strongly aromatic and slightly unpleasant, opposite or in whorls of 3, 10–100 x 3–45 mm, scabrid and rugulose (rough) above, serrulate; flowers in a small compact spike, white to yellowish green; in woodland, scrubby grassland, rocky hillsides; 450– 2,350 m. Widespread in Africa, from South Africa to Angola and Ethiopia. Not in Asia, despite the species name, which was applied erroneously. Source. F.T.E.A. Verbenaceae: 30 (1992). Malawi. Nyika National Park, without locality or collecting details (Mill 1979). Lippia plicata Baker Lippia strobiliformis Mold. Woody herb or shrub 0.6–3 m, stems square, brown to reddish purple; leaves aromatic (minty), opposite, rarely in threes, ovate to lanceolate, 15– 100 x 7–55 mm, harshly scabrid above, margins crenate-serrate; flowers in Rinorea convallarioides (Baker f.) Eyles Understorey shrub or small tree 1.5–7 m tall; leaves simple, alternate, oblong-elliptic, 40–70 x 15–40 mm, sharply serrate or subentire, hairless except on main veins, petiole 2–4 mm long, channelled above, stipules 3– 4 mm long; flowers axillary; fruit a 3-sided capsule to 13 mm long; in evergreen forest; only in submontane forest (below 2,000 m) on the eastern escarpment, but not recorded by Dowsett-Lemaire (1985). Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Malawi. Source. Chapman & White (1970: 126). Malawi. Nyika Plateau, “eastern escarpment Forests”, no specimen located. Viscum combreticola Engl. Relatively large dioecious leafless parasitic shrubs, more or less pendulous with age, yellowish green, stems flattened and strongly ribbed, but round with age; berries stalkless, more or less round, 6–7 mm long, warty when young, almost smooth at maturity, orange; a parasite of various hosts, but commonly on Combretum and various legumes, including Brachystegia. Widespread from D.R.C. and Kenya to Angola and South Africa. Source. Mill (1979); Polhill & Wiens (1998: 303). Malawi. Nyika National Park, Chisanga Falls, 1,800 m, 1982, Dowsett- Lemaire 307 (K); Chisanga Falls, 1,800 m, 1986, R.M. Polhill & D. Polhill 5254 (K, MAL). Viscum cylindricum Polhill & Wiens. Leafless, dioecious, parasitic shrub with pendulous branches up to 1–2 m long, distal branches flattened, 2–4 mm broad; flowers sessile, single, style indistinct, stigma on elevated mound above tepal scars, berries sessile, oblong, 7–3.5 mm; in forest and high-rainfall Brachystegia woodland on various hosts. Only known from Malawi. Source. Polhill & Wiens (1998: 303); Polhill (2001: 593, fig. 211G). Malawi. Nyika Plateau, 7 km W. of Chelinda, 1972, Wiens 4614 (K, UT); Nyika National Park, 6.5 km W. of Livingstonia junction, Nya Mkowa, 2,000 m, 1978, Pawek 13846 (BR, K, MAL, MO, WAG). Viscum goetzei Engl. Leafless dioecious parasite with flattened stems narrowing to the nodes; berries with a 1 mm long stalk, 3 mm long, smooth, orange; a parasite (epiparasite) of Loranthaceae, in evergreen forests to 2,350 m. Southern Highlands of Tanzania, Nyika Plateau, and Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. Source. Polhill & Wiens (1998: 302); Polhill (2001: 593, fig. 211J, K). VIOLACEAE VISCACEAE roundish terminal clusters, white/yellow to pink or lilac, scented; in grassland and various types of woodland, often in disturbed areas; 450–1,950 m. Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, D.R.C., and Tanzania. Source. Brummitt (1973); F.T.E.A. Verbenaceae: 34 (1992). Malawi. Nyika National Park, N.W. foot of Nganda, 1972, Brummitt & Synge 47 (K, MAL, SRGH, FHO, LISC); W. of Vitinthiza Hill, 2000, Salubeni & Mwanyambo 6763 & 6806 (MAL). Lippia woodii Mold. Lippia africana Mold. var. villosa Mold.; Lippia wilmsii Pearson var. villosa (Mold.) Mold. Herb or shrublet 150–600 mm tall, with several unbranched stems; leaves strongly aromatic, opposite, obovate-elliptic to rhomboid, 10–80 x 10– 30 mm, shallowly crenulate, rugose/bullate, silvery hairy below, sparsely hairy above; flowers in axillary clusters, white, green or yellow, usually with an orange centre; in open woodland or grassland subjected to frequent burning; 1,110–2,280 m. Zimbabwe and Mozambique northwards to Uganda. Source. F.T.E.A. Verbenaceae: 33 (1992). Malawi. Nyika National Park, without locality or collecting details (Mill 1979). Viola abyssinica Steud. ex Oliv. Chichewa: katongolola Perennial herb, stems to 600 mm long, trailing or creeping, rooting at nodes, angular or winged; leaves broadly ovate to roundish, base cordate, margins crenate-dentate; flowers single, axillary, on pedicels 10–40 mm long, white to bluish or violet; in moist grassland, moist areas in forest or forest margins; 1,200–2,520 m. Widespread in the mountains of tropical Africa. Source. Flora zambesiaca 1(1): 258 (1960). Malawi. Nyika National Park, without locality, 1946, Brass 17323 (BM, K, PRE, SRGH); Mpopoti, 2000, Mwanyambo 542 (MAL). Zambia. Nyika Plateau, near Rest House, 1958, Robson 395 (BM, K, SRGH). Malawi. Nyika National Park, vicinity of Juniper Forest, 2,190 m, 1972, Wiens 4612 (K, MO, P). Viscum loranthicola Polhill & Wiens Small, leafless, densely branched parasitic shrub, distal internodes rounded to slightly flattened; flowers sessile, male flowers with anthers fused together; berries orange, sessile, round, smooth, 3 mm diameter; epiparasite on several genera of Loranthaceae. Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, and northern Malawi. Source. Polhill & Wiens (1998: 297); Malawi. Rumphi-Chisenga Road, half a km S. of Nyika Road junction, 1,500 m, 1972, Wiens 4607 (K, MAL, MO, UT); 16 km E. of Barrier, 1,650 m, 1976, Phillips 1338 (K, MO, SRGH, WAG). Viscum shirense Sprague Viscum junodii Engl., nom. nud. Leafless dioecious parasite, pendulous with age, stems flattened; berries with a stalk of 1–1.5 mm, round to ellipsoid, 3–5 mm long, smooth, orange; a parasite of various hosts, commonly on Bridelia, in high rainfall woodland, riverine forest, and on margins of montane forest; up to 1,700 m. D.R.C., Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The citations given below might be misidentifications for allied species, but V. shirense is certainly recorded from near Chisenga on the Chambo R. and around Wenya. Furthermore, the closely similar V. congdonii Polhill & Wiens, known from Jembya Forest Reserve, is likely to occur. Differences are given in the sources cited above. Source. Polhill & Wiens (1998: 306); Polhill (2001: 595). Malawi. Nyika National Park, Kasyaula & Zovochipolo Forests (Dowsett- Lemaire 1985). Zambia. Nyika National Park, Manyenjere, Kasoma & Chowo Forests (Dowsett-Lemaire 1985). Plants of the Nyika Plateau 283 VISCACEAE
20 mm Cayratia gracilis Del. Sandie Burrows 284 Plants of the Nyika Plateau Viscum combreticola Del. Sandie Burrows 20 mm 20 mm Cissus rubiginosa Del. Sandie Burrows Ampelocissus africana Del. Sandie Burrows 20 mm
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