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Combretum cinereopetalum

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Identification
Isotype of Combretum cinereopetalum Engl. & Diels [family COMBRETACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Combretum cinereopetalum
  • Combretum racemosum
  • Combretum mittuense
  • Combretum cabrae

Flora

Entry for Combretum cinereopetalum Engl. & Diels [family COMBRETACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1973) Author: G. E. WICKENS
Names
Combretum cinereopetalum Engl. & Diels [family COMBRETACEAE], in E.M. 3: 84, t. 23/E (1899); Burtt Davy, Check-lists Brit. Emp. 1, Uganda: 35 (1935); Liben in F.C.B., Combr.: 29 (1968). Types: Cameroun, Buea, Lehmbach 136 (B, syn. †) & Yaoundé, Zenker 740 (B, syn. †, K, isosyn.!) & Angola, Bango Aquitamba-Bumba, Welwitsch 4353 (B, syn. †, BM!, COI, K !, LISU, P, isosyn.) & a number of syntypes from Zaire
Combretum mittuense Engl. & Diels [family COMBRETACEAE], in E.M. 3: 83, t. 23/D (1899). Type: Sudan, Bahr el Ghazal, R. Roah-Kuddu, Schweinfurth 2774 (B, holo. †, K, iso. !)
Combretum cabrae De Wild. & Th. Dur. [family COMBRETACEAE], in B.S.B.B. 39: 100 (1901). Type: Zaire, Bas-Congo, Cabra 75 (BR, holo.)
Combretum sp. [family COMBRETACEAE], sensu Burtt Davy, Check-lists Brit. Emp. 1, Uganda: 37 (1935), pro specim. Maitland 616 !
Information
A liane or sometimes a scandent shrub; branchlets densely villous, becoming glabrescent. Leaves opposite or subopposite; lamina elliptic or broadly elliptic to oblong, 5–8 cm. long, 3–4 cm. wide, apex shortly acuminate, base truncate to subcordate, lightly pilose at first, becoming glabrescent except on the nerves; lateral nerves 4–8 pairs; petiole up to 5 mm. long, sometimes persisting and forming a spine. Inflorescence of terminal and axillary contracted racemes; rhachis densely pubescent; floral leaves resembling small foliage leaves, but whitish and early deciduous. Flowers crimson, 4-merous. Lower receptacle 3–5 mm. long, somewhat constricted above and below theovary, densely pilose; upper receptacle campanulate, 5–7 mm. long, densely pubescent. Sepals triangular, 1 mm. long. Petals obovate, 2.5–3 mm. long (3.5–4.5 mm. long fide F.C.B.), 1.5 mm. wide, densely fuscous pubescent externally. Stamen-filaments 12 mm. long; anthers 0.5 mm. long. Disk inconspicuous, pilose, without a free margin. Fruit (fig. 7/32, p. 51) obtriangular or obovate in outline, 2.2–2.5 cm. long, 2–2.3 cm. wide; wings membranous, lightly puberulous; apical peg minute; stipe 3 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U4
Altitude range
1050–1400 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Mengo District Mukono, Oct. 1914 (?1913), Dummer 283 ! & Kijude, Nov. 1915, Dummer 2674 ! & Nambigirwa, Mar. 1923, Maitland 616 ! & Entebbe, Jan. 1932, Eggeling 167 !
Distribution (external)
Cameroun
Central African Republic
Zaire
Angola
Notes
This is a rare species in Uganda, and apparently no recent gatherings have been made. Good fruiting and vegetative material has not been well collected from any part of its distribution range.

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