Sabicea burchellii (Steyerm.) Wernham
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Filed As
Rubiaceae
Sabicea burchellii (Steyerm.) Wernham -
Collector(s)
G. Eiten 9090 with Liene T. Eiten, 04 Oct 1968
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Location
Brazil. Mato Grosso. Barra do Garças Mun. Serra do Roncador. 210 km along new road NNE of village of Xavantina (ca. 50 km due S of Royal Society- Royaly Geographic Society Base Camp. At "Corrego do Gato". A few hundred meters east of main road.
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Habitat
Open shore of small pond left in stream bed dried up during dry season. No gallery forest along this part of the bank; the natural grassy campo comes directly to the stream. In moist soil at pond's edge. [See label for further habitat description.].
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Description
Shrub 1 m. tall. Flowers white. Phenology of specimen: Flower.
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Identifiers
NY Barcode: 01166952
Occurrence ID: b2b6c5a0-c591-47fc-b01e-ec612c13a97c
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Kingdom
Plantae
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Division
Magnoliophyta
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Order
Gentianales
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Family
Rubiaceae
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All Determinations
Sabicea burchellii (Steyerm.) Wernham det J. H. Kirkbride Jr., 1975
Note: ! S.A. Khan, 12.1.2007, University of Bayreuth, Germany
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Region
South America
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Country
Brazil
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State/Province
Mato Grosso
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County/Municipio
Barra do Garças Mun.
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Locality
Serra do Roncador. 210 km along new road NNE of village of Xavantina (ca. 50 km due S of Royal Society- Royaly Geographic Society Base Camp. At "Corrego do Gato". A few hundred meters east of main road.
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Elevation
Alt. 450 m. (1476 ft.)
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Coordinates
-12.85, -51.75
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Distribution
FLORA OP BRAZIL STATE OF MATO GROSSO SERRA DO RONCADOR . , / ex' Cha.^t Municipio de Barra do Gargas: 210 km along new road NNE of village of XAVANTINA ( 5Q km due 3 of Royal Society- Royal Geographic Society BaseXamp. Base Camp is at 12°51S. 51°45W.) Ait. ca. 450 m. At *«C6rrego do Gato"* 4 Got 1968 A few hundred otters east of oain road« (Area of 10 km radius around Base Camp is situated on crest of the Serra do Roncador, a gently-sloped divide between Xingu drainage (via Rio Suiá Migu) to west end Araguáia drainage (via Rio das Mortes) to east. The yet undissected few-km wide crest is flat or gently rolling with a few low lateritic scarps and ridges. Brook valleys with very gentle to moderately steep slopes. Base Camp area is exactly at climatic boundary between Amazonian forest region and central Brazil "cerrado region (savanna sens. lat.). North-western half of area is covered with the outer edge of the continuous Amazonian forest, here a slightly semide- ciduous dry mesophytlc forest 15-18 m tall on the upland, taller along the seasonally dry brooks. Southeastern half of area has, on the upland, xeromorphic semideciduous cerrado, in the form of medium-tall open scrub or tree-and-scrub woodland, with evergreen gallery forests 20-30 m tall along the permanent brooks. Usually a band of seasonally marshy grassy campo, a few meters to a few tens of meters wide, borders the gallery forests, separating them from the cerrado, but where the campo is lacking, the cerrado grades directly into gallery forest through a narrow band of its arboreal form, cerradSo^. The campos usually have scattered circular groves of cerrado scrub several meters in diameter on slightly raised soil, each with a termite mound. On the upland the cerrado region grades into the continuous dry forest region through a few-km wide ecotone of cerradSo. Underlying rock is various kinds of sandstone, giving rise to slightly clayey fine-sandy deep latosols, sterile and reddish or yellowish-tan with almost no humus on upland under cerrado, and dark red with more clay under dry forest. In restricted areas under cerrado, small laterite blocks or quartz pebbles may form a thin permeable subsurface layer, or the upper soil layer may be purely of laterite pebbles. Valley soils are deep light gray fine sand with little or no clay, sterile on drier upper slopes, black with humus in upper layer on moister or soaking lower slopes and floors. Shales underlie soils in a few valleys. At t.hlfi date the Base Camp region has not yet been settled; the forests are virgin; the cerrado and campo are uncut and ungrazed, but have been subjected to ground fires set by Indians every 3-5 years. In the cerrado, these Infrequent fires temporarily reduce density of the lower shrubs but otherwise have no effect on the physiognomy.) Habitat of this n°: open shors of Mall pond left In strean bed as stress dried up during dry season* Ho gallery forest along this part of tbe bank? the natural grassy campo cooes directly to tbs stress* This n*s in osist soil at pond's edgo* Shrub 1 o tall« Flowers white* leg. George Eiten & Liene T. Eiten, n.° 9090 Distributed by the Instituto de Botànica, Säo Paulo 01166952
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Sabicea burchellii (Steyerm.) Wernham