Talk:Fockea multiflora
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Inaccurate description
[edit]The article currently states that "This species has a swollen tuberous base (caudex) with branches either sprawling on the ground or twining up any available support...." That may be accurate to other Fockea species but it is certainly not accurate for F. multiflora. Per Bruyns & Klak (2006): ""The starkest morphological contrast within the genus is beween F. multiflora, which is a massive, tropical liane without a tuber, and the others, which are relatively small climbers with a swollen, mostly subterranean tuber." (Bruyns, P. V.; & Klak, C. (2006). “A Systematic Study of the Old World Genus Fockea (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae).” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 93(4): 535-564. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/40035054).) (See also Bruyns, P. V. (2014). The Apocynaceae of Namibia. Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute, pp. 30, 32. (https://archive.org/details/apocynaceaeofnam34bruy/mode/2up).
I will remove this part of the description. I'll follow up to make sure other aspects of the description are accurate — the entire description is cited to a webpage that no longer exists. — Yksin (talk) 00:51, 25 June 2023 (UTC)