Name
Identification
Terminalia trichopoda Diels [family COMBRETACEAE ]
Related name
- Terminalia trichopoda
Flora
Entry for TERMINALIA trichopoda 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
TERMINALIA trichopoda Diels [family COMBRETACEAE], in E.J. 39: 514 (1907); Griffiths in J.L.S. 55: 858 (1959); F.F.N.R.: 290 (1962); Exell in Kirkia 7:236 (1970). Types: Rhodesia, Matopos, Engler 2847a & Umtali, Engler 3142 (both B, syn. †)
? TERMINALIA poliotricha Diels [family ], in E.J. 54: 342 (1917); T.T.C.L.: 144 (1949); Griffiths in J.L.S. 55: 906 (1959). Type: Tanganyika, Morogoro District, Mlali valley, Holtz in Herb. For. Dar es Salaam 3144 (B, holo. †)
Information
Small tree up to 9(–21) m. high; bark dark grey; branchlets with purplish black bark peeling off in strips to reveal a light brown newly exposed surface. Leaves spirally arranged, petiolate; lamina usually oblanceolate, less often obovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, up to 16(–18) cm. long and 5(–7) cm. wide, apex usually acuminate, long-cuneate, usually rather coarsely brown tomentose or brown pilose, rarely pubescent or ± sericeous in specimens tending towards T. sericea; lateral nerves 10–14 pairs, fairly conspicuous beneath, as is also the reticulation; petiole 15–20 mm. long. Inflorescences of axillary spikes 10–14 cm. long; peduncle 4–5 cm. long, brown tomentose. Flowers white; lower receptacles densely tomentose, not sericeous; upper receptacle less densely tomentose. Fruit yellowish to reddish brown, broadly to narrowly oblong-elliptic, up to 7.5 cm. long and 4.2 cm. wide, finely tomentose; stipe 15–20 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. T3, 6–8
Altitude range
450–1000 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Handeni District Kwamsisi, Dec. 1964, Procter 2835 !;TANGANYIKA Iringa District Great Ruaha R. 11 km. W. of Kidatu bridge, 16 July 1970, Thulin & Mhoro 457 !TANGANYIKA Songea, 13 June 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 10700 !
Distribution (external)
; Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Rhodesia
Botswana
Notes
Occurs to the east of the central plateau and generally readily distinguishable from T. sericea by the prominent nerves and matted tomentum of the leaves and by the large fruits, but these features are variable and intermediates with T. sericea and perhaps T. kaiserana are likely to be encountered.