Name
Identification
Gymnosporia luteola (Delile) Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hou, D., 1955 Celastrus sinuatedentatus Hochst. [family CELASTRACEAE ] Verified by Hou, D., 1955
Related name
- Celastrus sinuatedentatus
- Gymnosporia luteola
Flora
Entry for Maytenus undata Thunb. Blakelock [family CELASTRACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 355, (1966) Author: N. K. Robson
Names
Maytenus undata Thunb. Blakelock [family CELASTRACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1956: 237 (1956). — Keay & Blakelock in Keay F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 624 (1958). — Wilczek, F.C.B. 9: 118 (1960). — White, F.F.N.R.: 218 (1962). Type from S. Africa (Cape Prov.).
Celastrus undatus Thunb. [family CELASTRACEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 42 (1794). — Sond. in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 457 (1860). Type as above.
Celastrus ilicinus Burch. [family CELASTRACEAE], Trav. Int. S. Afr. 1: 340 (1822). Type from S. Africa (Cape Prov.).
Celastrus lancifolius Thonn. apud. Schumach. [family CELASTRACEAE], in Kongel. Dansk Vid. Selsk. Naturvid. & Math. Afh. 3: 132 (1828). — Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 364 (1868). Type from Ghana.
Celastrus luteolus Del. [family CELASTRACEAE], in Ann. Sci. Nat., Sér. 2, 20: 90 (1843). — Oliv., tom. cit.: 363 (1868). Type from Ethiopia.
Celastrus laurifolius A. Rich. [family CELASTRACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 130 (1847). — Oliv., tom. cit.: 364 (1868). Type from Ethiopia.
Catha fasciculata Tul. [family CELASTRACEAE], in Arm. Sci. Nat., Ser. 4, 8: 98 (1857). Syntypes from Madagascar and the Comoro Is.
Celastrus zeyheri Sond. [family CELASTRACEAE], tom. cit.: 456 (1860). Syntypes from S. Africa (Cape Prov.).
Celastrus huillensis Welw. ex Oliv. [family CELASTRACEAE], loc. cit. — Type from Angola.
Celastrus fasciculatus Tul. Boiv. ex Hoffm. [family CELASTRACEAE], Pl. Madag.: 12 (1881). — Grandidier, Hist. Nat. Madag., Bot. Madag., Bot. Atlas, 3: t. 280 (1896). Syntypes as for Catha fasciculata.
Gymnosporia rehmannii Szyszyl. [family CELASTRACEAE], Polypet. Disc. Rehm.: 34 (1888). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 125 (1949). Type from Natal.
Gymnosporia undata Thunb. Szyszyl. [family CELASTRACEAE], loc. cit. — Davison in Bothalia, 2: 296 (1927). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 448 (1932). — Hutch., Botanist in S. Afr.: 468 (1946). Type as for Celastrus undatus.
Gymnosporia zeyheri Sond. Szyszyl. [family CELASTRACEAE], op. cit.: 33 (1888). — Davison, tom. cit.: 294 (1927). Type as for Celastrus zeyheri.
Gymnosporia huillensis Welw. ex Oliv. Szyszyl. [family CELASTRACEAE], op. cit.: 35 (1888). Type as for Celastrus huillensis.
Gymnosporia lancifolia Thonn. Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 17: 548 (1893). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 125 (1949). Type as for Celastrus lancifolius.
Gymnosporia laurifolia A. Rich. Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], loc. cit. — Brenan, loc. cit. Type as for Celastrus laurifolius.
Gymnosporia luteola Del. Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], loc. cit. — Brenan, loc. cit. Type as for Celastrus luteolus.
Gymnosporia fasciculata Tul. Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], op. cit. 19: 232 (1895). — Burtt Davy, loc. cit. — Brenan, loc. cit. Syntypes as for Catha fasciculata.
Gymnosporia goetzeana Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], op. cit. 30: 344 (1901). — Brenan, loc. cit. Type from Tanganyika.
Celastrus albatus N. E. Br. [family CELASTRACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1906: 16 (1906). Type from Natal.
Gymnosporia deflexa Sprague [family CELASTRACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1906: 246 (1906). — Davison tom. cit.: 299 (1927). — Burtt Davy, loc. cit. Syntypes from the Transvaal.
Gymnosporia albata N. E. Br. Sim [family CELASTRACEAE], For. & For. Fl. Col. Cap. Good Hope: 186 (1907). Type as for Celastrus albatus.
Gymnosporia ilicina Burch. Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], in Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 2: 225 (1921). — Davison, tom. cit.: 296 (1927). — Hutch., op. cit.: 389 (1946). Type as for Celastrus ilicinus.
Gymnosporia peglerae Davison [family CELASTRACEAE], tom. cit.: 298 (1927). Type from S. Africa (Cape Prov.).
Maytenus ilicina Burch. Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 20b: 140 (1942). Type as for Celastrus ilicinus.
Maytenus fasciculata Tul. Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], loc. cit. — Perrier, Fl. Madag., Celastrac.: 130 (1946). Type as for Catha fasciculata.
Maytenus lancifolia Thonn. Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], loc. cit. — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 2, 1:2 (1956). Type as for Celastrus lancifolius.
Maytenus huillensis Welw. ex Oliv. Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], loc. cit. — Exell & Mendonça, loc. cit. Type as for Celastrus huillensis.
Maytenus zeyheri Sond. Loes. [family CELASTRACEAE], tom. cit.: 138 (1942). Type as for Celastrus zeyheri.
Gymnosporia maliensis Schnell [family CELASTRACEAE], in Bull. I.F.A.N. 15: 96, t. 3 (1953). Syntypes from Mali.
Information
Shrub or tree 1·5–10(12) m. high, much branched, sometimes scandent, unarmed, glabrous, without latex, very variable; branches ± markedly lined when young, becoming terete. Leaves not fasciculate, petiolate; lamina pale green or silver-green to dark green and sometimes glossy above, concolorous or sometimes paler below or whitish-glaucous below or on both surfaces, (1·1)3·2–13(20) × (0·9)1·2–7·5(11) cm., ovate or lanceolate or oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate or circular or oblate, acute to rounded at the apex, with margin glandular-denticulate to spinose-dentate or subentire, rarely reflexed or indurated, cuneate-angustate or rarely truncate to subcordate at the base, coriaceous to chartaceous, with 6–9 lateral nerves and reticulate venation varying in density and prominence; petiole 2–8(15) mm. long. Cymes fasciculate, sessile or rarely with peduncle up to 2 mm. long, in axil of foliage leaves; pedicels 2–9(15) mm. long, articulated at the base or in the lower 1/3; flowers 2-c. 30 in each fascicle or rarely solitary, 4–8 mm. in diam., fragrant. Sepals 5, unequal, 0·7–1·5(2) mm. long, ovate to semicircular, rounded, sometimes tinged red. Petals white to cream or pale yellow, 1·5–3(5) mm. long, oblong or elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, sessile or shortly unguiculate, with margin entire or eroded-denticulate, often ± crisped. Stamens 5, with filaments 0·7–2 mm. long, not or scarcely flattened, united with the base of the disk. Disk 5–10-lobed or subentire, flat or with thin free upturned margin or rarely somewhat convex. Ovary 3-locular, subglobose, c. 1/3-immersed in the disk; style elongate or almost absent; stigma shortly 3-lobed. Capsule white or pinkish-red to yellow or orange, 4–7(10) mm. long, obovoid to subglobose or 3-gonous, with lobes rounded or carinate, smooth, not fleshy. Seeds orange-brown, completely or almost completely enclosed by an oblique aril.
Habitat
Forest, fringing forest, woodland and evergreen scrub
Range
W. Africa (Guinée, Togo, Ghana, N. Cameroons) and Angola, and from Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan Republic southward to the Cape
Altitude range
c. 200–2100 m. in our area.
2100
200
Distribution
Mozambique M Goba, near Fonte dos Libombos, fl. 3.xi.1960, Balsinhas 179 (BM; K; LMJ; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique GI near Macia, fl. 11.v.1944, Torre 6628 (LISC).Malawi S Shire Highlands, fl., Adamson 222 (E; K).Malawi C Dedza, Ciwao Hill, st. 2.vii.1960, Chapman 799 (BM; K;SRGH).Zimbabwe S Zimbabwe Ruins, fr. 1.vii.1930, Hutchinson & Gillett 3327 (BM; COI; K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Umtali, 960 m., fl. 5.xii.1954, Chase 5344 (BM; COI; K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Rusape, Mona, fl. 9.i.1953, Dehn in GHS 43065 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Matobo, Besna Kobila, 1350 m., fl. i.1954. Miller 2102 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zambia E Fort Jameson to Lundazi, km.130, st. 24.v.1952, White 2877 (FHO; K).Zambia C Serenje. fr. 24.ix.1961, Fanshawe 6711 (K).Zambia W Ndola Distr., Konkola R., fl. 13.vii.1952, Holmes 756 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS Cheringoma, Chinizíua, near Zuni village, fl. 11.iv.1957, Gomes e Sousa 4349 (COI; K; PRE).Malawi N Misuku Hills, Walindi Forest, 1650 m., fl. 12.i.1959, Richards 10614 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Satsi R., st. 26.ix.1937, McGregor 116/37 (BM; FHO).Zambia N Abercorn Distr., Mukoma stream, 27 km. from Abercorn, 1050 m., fr. 7.iv.1962, Richards 16309 (K; SRGH).Botswana SE Gaberones Distr., 25 km. N. of Lobatsi on Great North Road, fl. 15.xi.1948, Hillary & Robertson 561 (K; PRE).
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
the Comoro Is
Notes
A very variable aggregate species in which the variation shows a certain amount of ecological and geographical correlation but no apparent morphological disjunctions. Thus in the rain-forests of W. Africa, Uganda, Tanganyika, etc., the leaves are large and the fruits pinkish-red to white (“lancifolia”). Eastward and southward the leaves become smaller and thicker (“laurifolia”, “deflexa” etc.) with pale yellow capsules. In drier regions in S. Rhodesia, Bechuanaland Prot. and S. Africa occur forms with still smaller leaves (“undata”, “zeyheri”) which are frequently ± densely glaucous (“albata”) and sometimes spinose-dentate (“ilicina”) and have yellow to orange fruits. Two extreme types from southern Africa have been treated as distinct species: M. lucida (L.) Loes., from the Cape region, with entire thick-margined leaves, and M. procumbens (L.f.) Loes., from the S.E. coastal region, with thick-margined spinulose-denticulate leaves.