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Androstachys johnsonii Prain

Joffe
Photographs
PRE
Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family PICRODENDRACEAE]

Androstachys johnsonii Prain

Joffe
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Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family PICRODENDRACEAE]

Type of Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

O'Neill, H.E., #s.n.
08-1883
Specimens
Mozambique
K
Type of Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE] (stored under name)

Type of Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Johnson, W.H., #283
11-1908
Specimens
Mozambique
K
Type of Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE] (stored under name)

Type of Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Johnson, W.H., #283
11-1908
Specimens
Mozambique
K
Type of Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE] (stored under name)

Type of Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Johnson, W.H., #283
11-1908
Specimens
Mozambique
K
Type of Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE] (stored under name)

Type of Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Johnson, W.H., #283
11-1908
Specimens
Mozambique
K
Type of Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE] (stored under name)

Filed as Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family PICRODENDRACEAE]

Du Toit, G.J., #272
1979-10-12
Specimens
South Africa
PRE
Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family PICRODENDRACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Crosby,M.

Holotype of Weihea subpeltata Sim [family RHIZOPHORACEAE]

Sim, T.R., #6387
1908-09-01
Specimens
Mozambique
PRE
Holotype of Weihea subpeltata Sim [family RHIZOPHORACEAE]
Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family PICRODENDRACEAE] (stored under name)

Filed as Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family PICRODENDRACEAE]

Burrows, J.E.; Burrows, S.M., #12755
2012-06-11
Specimens
Mozambique
BNRH
Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family PICRODENDRACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Burrows, J.E., 2012/06/11

Type of Guibourtia sousae J.Léonard [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]

Gomes; Sousa, #1927
12-1936
Specimens
Mozambique
K
Type of Guibourtia sousae J.Léonard [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Léonard, J.,
Copaifera unrecorded unrecorded [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Neotype of Schotia capitata Bolle [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]

Balsinhas, A., #204
05-11-1960
Specimens
Mozambique
K
Neotype of Schotia capitata Bolle [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Ross, J.H.,
Schotia transvaalensis Rolfe [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]

ANDROSTACHYS Johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
Occurs also in Tropical South East Africa.
a tall hard-wooded tree, providing valuable timber, branchlets angular and articulated; leaves opposite, decussate, ovate, obtuse, rounded or subcordate at the base, 1 1/4–2 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous above, more or less densely woolly-hairy below; stipular sheath 3/4 in. long, silky-pubescent outside; petioles 1/4– 1/3 in. long, silky-hairy; flowers yellow; peduncles 1/4– 1/3 in. long; male flowers: sepals petaloid, lanceolate, with retuse or 2-lobed tips, long-pilose outside; staminal axis 1/2–1 in. long; female flowers: calyx-segments 1/4 in. long, silky; capsule depressed, 1/2 in. long; seeds 1/3 in. long, 1/4 in. broad; testa brown and shining. null

ANDROSTACHYS Johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
A tall hard-wooded tree, providing valuable timber; branchlets angular and articulated. Leaves opposite, decussate, ovate, obtuse, rounded or subcordate at the base, 1 1/4–2 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous above, more or less silky-hairy below; stipular sheath 3/4 in. long, silky-pubescent outside; petioles 1/4– 1/3 in. long, silky-hairy. Flowers yellow; peduncles 1/4– 1/3 in. long. Males: Sepals petaloid, lanceolate, with retuse or 2-lobed tips, long-pilose outside. Staminal axis 1/2–1 in. long. Females: Calyx-segments 1/4 in. long. Ovary densely pilose; style 1/4 in. long, silky. Capsule depressed, 1/2 in. long. Seeds 1/3 in. long, 1/4 in. broad; testa brown and shining.

Androstachys johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
A tree up to 20 m high.Bark blackish-grey, longitudinally fissured.Wood hard.Twigs grey.Young growth densely whitish-tomentose.Petioles 0.5–4 cm long.Stipular sheath 1–3.5 × 0.4–0.7 cm, oblong, rounded, detersibly tomentellous (indumentum easily detached).Leaf blades 3–9(13) × 2–7(12) cm, broadly ovate or asymmetrically hemirhombic-ovate, less often elliptic-ovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cuneate to rounded or truncate at the base, or peltate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous, shiny and dark green on upper surface, densely whitish-tomentose beneath, 5–7-nerved from the base; lateral nerves in 5–8 pairs.Male inflorescences up to 3 cm long, 3-flowered, with the central flower longer than the laterals.Male flowers: pedicels 5–6 mm long in lateral flowers, or 1–1.3 cm long in central flowers, pubescent; sepals 2–3 in lateral flowers, or 5 in central flowers, 4 × 0.5 mm, linear-oblanceolate, subacute, sericeous-hirsute without, glabrous within; receptacle up to 1.5 cm long in lateral flowers, or 2 cm long in central flowers; stamens up to c. 35 in lateral flowers, or to c. 50 in central flowers, filaments of lowest stamens up to 1 mm long, anthers 3 × 0.5 mm, connective sparingly sericeous-pubescent at first, later glabrescent, thecae yellow.Female flowers: pedicels 1–1.5 cm long, extending to up to 3 cm long in fruit; sepals 7–8 × 2–2.5 mm, ovate-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate or sometimes bifid at the apex, minutely crisped-puberulous on the margins and at the base, otherwise ± glabrous; ovary c. 3 mm in diameter, ovoid, densely tomentose; stylar column with styles c. 7 mm long, puberulous, stigmas minutely papillose.Fruit 8–10 × 12–13 mm, minutely crisped­ puberulous, bright green at first, yellowish to light brown when mature; indumentum detersible (easily detached).Seeds 6.5–7(8)× 4.5–5(6) × 2–3 mm, laterally compressed-ovoid, shallowly longitudinally striate-ridged, chestnut-brown.

Croton steenkampianus Gerstner [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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A shrub c. 2 m high, or tree to 7 m, dioecious or monoecious.Twigs greyish-brown, lenticellate.Young growth densely fulvous-lepidote.Stipules 3–10 mm long, subulate.Petioles 0.5–6 cm long.Leaf blades 2–15 × 2–10 cm, ovate, acutely shortly acuminate at the apex, sometimes obtuse or emarginate through deformity, entire or subentire on the margin, rounded to shallowly cordate at the base with a pair of sessile discoid basal glands beneath, chartaceous, sparingly scurfily stellate-pubescent and green on the upper surface, silvery-lepidote beneath; 5–9-nerved from the base, lateral nerves in 5–8 pairs, ± impressed above, prominent beneath.Racemes 2–10 cm long, terminal, mostly female with a short apical male portion, or all female; bracts minute.Male flowers: pedicels 3 mm long; sepals 5, 2 × 1 mm, triangular-ovate, yellowish-lepidote without, glabrous within; petals 5, 2 × 0.5 mm, oblong-oblanceolate, pubescent, ciliate, pale yellowish-cream in colour; disk glands 5, rounded or truncate; stamens 17–20, filaments 2–3 mm long, sparingly pubescent, anthers 1 mm long; receptacle pilose.Female flowers: pedicels 3 mm long, stouter than in the male, densely lepidote; sepals 5, 3–4 × 1.5 mm, triangular-lanceolate, subacute, lepidote without, pubescent within, greenish; petals absent; disk shallowly 5-lobed, the lobes rounded; ovary 2 mm in diameter, subglobose, densely fulvous stellate-lepidote; styles 3, 2–3 mm long, erect or spreading, twice bipartite with linear-filiform segments, sparingly stellate-pubescent abaxially, purplish. Fruits 5 × 6–7 mm, trilobate-subglobose, septicidal, evenly stellate-lepidote.Seeds 3.5–4 × 2.5–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm, ovoid, smooth, somewhat shiny, dark brown; caruncle c. 1 mm wide, ± flattened.

Croton inhambanensis Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
Known only from this locality
A shrub or small tree up to 5 m high.Twigs sparingly stellate-pubescent to subglabrous, cinnamon-ochreous at first, later becoming greyish-tawny in colour.Stipules 5 mm long, subulate, sparingly stellate-pubescent, soon falling.Petioles 1–7 cm long, stellate-pubescent at first, later glabrescent.Leaf blades 4–10 × 2–3 cm, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, shallowly and somewhat irregularly glandular-serrulate on the margins, wide-cuneate to rounded at the base, with a pair of small stipitate or subsessile discoid glands on upper surface at the junction with the petiole, chartaceous, minutely glandular-punctate, glabrous or subglabrous on both surfaces, if subglabrous then with very few scattered stellate hairs on the lower midrib and lateral nerves; 5-nerved from the base, lateral nerves in 10–18 pairs, scarcely prominent.Male and female inflorescences and flowers unknown.Fruits 2.5–3 × 2–2.5 cm, obovoid- or ellipsoid-subglobose, scarcely 3-lobed, loculicidal, densely echinate, subglabrous except for the processes; processes up to 7 mm long, subulate, curved, sparingly stellate-pubescent.Seeds 2 × 1.5 × 1 cm, ovoid-ellipsoid, dull, light brown, tawny-mottled, recalling those of the genus Ricinus, as indeed also do the fruits.

Pentanisia angustifolia Hochst. Hochst. [family RUBIACEAE]

FZ, Vol 5, Part 1, (1989) Author: B. Verdcourt
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Erect straggling or prostrate plant, 20–60 cm. tall with several hairy or glabrous stems from a thick woody rootstock usually 2 cm. wide. Leaf blades variable, 2–15 cm. x 2–10 mm., linear to oblong or lanceolate sometimes even up to 50 times as long as wide, acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous or rarely hairy or margins above ciliate; petiole 1.5–2 mm. long; stipules with 3–5 linear segments 2.5–6 mm. long from a base 3–4 mm. long. Inflorescence a head or short spike, usually becoming a branched or unbranched spike up to 9 cm. long; peduncle 9–17 cm. long, elongating in fruit. Calyx tube c. 1 mm. long, the foliaceous lobe 4–10 x 0.3–1.5 mm., glabrous or ciliate. Corolla blue or violet-blue; tube 1.2–1.6 cm. long, pubescent outside with short appressed hairs; lobes 3.5–5 x 1–2 mm. Style in long-styled flowers as in previous species. Fruit as in last species.

Psydrax micans Bullock Bridson [family RUBIACEAE]

FZ, Vol 5, Part 2, (1998) Author: D. Bridson
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Shrub or small tree 3–4 m tall, or sometimes a liana up to 10 m tall (spines on old stems fide Mwasumbi 11629, East Africa), glabrous; bark greyish.Leaves not restricted to apices of branches, very often ternate; blades 3.5–7.5 × 1.3–4 cm, elliptic or less often narrowly elliptic, acute or obtuse at apex, acute at base, coriaceous, distinctly shiny on upper surface; lateral nerves in 3–4 main pairs; tertiary nerves moderately coarsely reticulate, prominent on both surfaces; domatia present as small blisters with a pin-prick-like puncture; petioles 3–4 mm long; stipules c. 3 mm long, with a shallow truncate base and linear lobe.Flowers 5-merous borne in subsessile, 2–10-flowered subumbelliform cymes; peduncles not exceeding 2 mm long; pedicels 6–16 (25 fide Bullock) mm long, glabrous; bracteoles inconspicuous.Calyx tube 1.5 mm long, glabrous; limb reduced to a dentate rim, ciliate.Corolla greenish-white; tube 3–4 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs above the mid-point inside; lobes 3 × 1.25–1.5 mm, oblong-lanceolate, acute.Style 7–8 mm long; pollen presenter 1.25 mm; disk glabrous.Immature fruit 7 × 6 mm; pedicels accrescent, up to 22 mm long.

Croton madandensis S. Moore [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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A shrub or small tree up to 5 m tall.Twigs greyish-brown, sparingly white-lenticellate.Young growth scurfily patent-stellate-pubescent.Stipules 3–4 mm long, filiform-subulate, soon falling.Petioles 0.5–3.5 cm long.Leaf blades 3.5–8 × 2–4 cm, ovate to elliptic-oblanceolate, shortly acuminate at the apex, entire or subentire, rarely irregularly crenate-serrate on the margin, shallowly cordate at the base, with a pair of long-stipitate or occasionally subsessile discoid glands at the base on the lower surface, membranous, evenly stellate-pubescent on both surfaces when juvenile, later only sparingly so; 3–5-nerved from the base, lateral nerves in 4–5 pairs, scarcely prominent beneath, not so above.Racemes 1–6.5 cm long, subterminal, usually androgynous; bracts minute.Male flowers: pedicels 2 mm long; sepals 5, 1.5 × 1 mm, ovate-oblong, evenly scurfily stellate-pubescent without, glabrous within, yellowish-green; petals 5, 2 × 0.75 mm, oblanceolate-spathulate, ciliate but otherwise ± glabrous, yellow; disk glands minute; stamens 15–16, filaments c. 1 mm long, ± glabrous, anthers 0.5 mm long; receptacle pilose.Female flowers: pedicels 2.5 mm long; sepals 5, 4 × 2 mm, accrescent to 7 × 3 mm, or not accrescent, oblong-lanceolate, evenly scurfily stellate-pubescent without, minutely puberulous within; petals 5, 1 mm long, subulate; disk rounded-pentagonal, flat, glabrous; ovary 2 mm in diameter, subglobose, densely fulvous stellate-tomentose; styles 3, 1.5 mm long, spreading, twice 2-partite or ± 4-partite or twice 3-partite with the segments linear-filiform, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous.Fruits 6 × 7 mm, shallowly trilobate-subglobose, septicidal, sparingly stellate-pubescent, pale green.Seeds 5 × 3.5 × 2.5 mm, compressed-ovoid, ± smooth, slightly shiny, light brown; caruncle 1.5 mm wide, flattened.

Phyllanthus pinnatus Wight G.L. Webster [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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An often spindly, unbranched, sometimes decumbent, glabrous shrub or small tree to 4.5 m high; plants dioecious.Bark smooth, mottled, light grey, flaking.Twigs often pinkish-grey.Young lead shoots robust, angular.Lateral leafy shoots up to 12 cm long, sometimes with flowers at the base.Short shoots either giving rise to secondary leafy shoots and lead shoots (in female plants) or else directly floriferous (in male plants).Scale leaves and their stipules 1.5–2 × 0.5–1 mm, narrowly lanceolate, light brown with fimbriate hyaline margins.Foliage leaves distichous; petioles 1.5 mm long; blades up to 4.5 × 3 cm, elliptic, obovate or ± suborbicular, obtuse to rounded at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, chartaceous, midrib commonly not running to the apex, bluish-green to yellowish-green above, paler beneath; lateral nerves in 5–7 pairs, not prominent above, scarcely so beneath.Stipules 0.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, soon falling.Male flowers fragrant, usually in dense fascicles on older leafless twigs; bracts 1 mm long, broadly ovate, erose, chestnut-brown; pedicels 3–4(7) mm long, slender; sepals 6, c. 1 × 0.5–1 mm, obovate-suborbicular, the outer convex, the inner ± flat, fimbriate, brown at the apex, otherwise yellowish; disk 1 mm in diameter, annular, ± entire, thin, flat; stamens (5)6, 2 mm long, filaments free or ± so, anthers 0.3 mm long.Female flowers either in few-flowered fascicles on the older twigs or else solitary in the lowest axils of the leafy shoots; bracts ± as in the male; pedicels 0.5–1 cm long, extending to 2–4 cm long in fruit, slender; outer sepals smaller than inner, otherwise sepals ± as in the male; disk 1.5 mm in diameter, collar-like, shallowly hexagonal; ovary 1.5 mm in diameter, ± sessile, subglobose, smooth; styles 3, 2 mm long, united at the base, ± erect at first, later spreading, slender, bifid, the stigmas filiform, minutely papillose.Fruit 4–5 × 8–10 mm, pendent, rounded, depressed-trigonous, shallowly reticulate-venose, crustaceous, pale green ripening to yellowish.Seeds 2.5–3 × 2–2.5 mm, ovoid, faintly lineate, pale brown to whitish, with a deep, dark, hilar excavation.

Croton gratissimus var. gratissimus [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
Gambia eastwards to Nigeria; Angola and Namibia across to central Mozambique and South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) a trimodal disjunct distribution.
Leaves glabrous and deep green to mid-green on upper surface; inflorescences 4–15 cm long.

Croton pseudopulchellus Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
A much-branched shrub, or small tree up to 5 m tall, monoecious or dioecious.Bark smooth, brownish-grey, later becoming roughened.Wood hard.Young twigs densely silvery-lepidote and rusty-flecked.Stipules minute, obscured by the scales.Petioles 0.1–2(4) cm long.Leaves aromatic when crushed, whorled or subopposite; blades 1–8 × 0.5–4 cm, suborbicular-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate to emarginate at the apex, entire, cuneate to rounded at the base, with a pair of minute sessile discoid basal glands on the under surface often obscured by scales, firmly chartaceous, glabrous or minutely stellate-pubescent and bright or dark green on upper surface, densely silvery-lepidote and rusty-flecked beneath; midrib often impressed above, prominent beneath, lateral nerves in 4–10 pairs, not or scarcely prominent above, invisible beneath.Racemes 0.5–2 cm long, abbreviated and often apparently umbellate, terminal, androgynous, all male or all female; bracts minute, scale-like.Male flowers: pedicels 1–2 mm long in bud, 3–4 mm long in flower; sepals 5, 2.5 × 1.5 mm, triangular-ovate, densely silvery- or rusty-lepidote without, sparingly pubescent to subglabrous within; petals 5, 2 × 0.5 mm, elliptic-oblong to linear, glabrous without, pubescent within, ciliate, pale yellowish-cream or whitish; disk glands 5, truncate, thin, glabrous; stamens 16, filaments 3–4 mm long, glabrous above, pubescent below, white, anthers 1 mm long with a broad connective, yellow; receptacle pubescent.Female flowers: pedicels 2–2.5 mm long, stouter than in the male, densely lepidote; sepals 5, 3 × 2 mm, ovate, otherwise as in the male; petals as in the male; disk 5-lobed, the lobes truncate, glabrous; ovary 2.5 mm in diameter, globose, densely brown-lepidote; styles 3, 2 mm long, spreading, bicrurate (very deeply bipartite, almost bisected), the segments erect, linear-filiform, glabrous.Fruits 6–8 × 6–8 mm, shallowly rounded-trilobate, septicidal, densely silvery-green lepidote, brown-flecked.Seeds 4.5–5 × 2.5–3 × 1.5–2 mm, narrowly compressed-ellipsoid, smooth, shiny, dark brown or blackish; caruncle 1 mm wide, convex, creamy-white.