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Ziziphus jujuba

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Identification
Rhamnus jujuba L. [family RHAMNACEAE ] (stored under name); Ziziphus jujuba Mill. [family RHAMNACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. [family RHAMNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Ziziphus jujuba
  • Rhamnus jujuba
  • Ziziphus mauritiana
  • Ziziphus lotus
  • Zizyphus abyssinicus
  • Ziziphus pubescens
  • Ziziphus indet.
  • Ziziphus hysudricus
  • Rhamnus ziziphus
  • Ziziphus abyssinica
  • Ziziphus zeyheriana
  • Ziziphus vulgaris
Common name
  • (Hassaniya) nabagaya (Aub.) neggaïe (Aub.) sder (Leriche & Moktar) sidar (Aub.) sider (Aub.) (MAURITANIA, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • jujubier; jujubier blanc (Bailleul)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • â-ginginô (K&A) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • jujube tree; Chinese date, tsa (the fruit); bush cherry (The Gambia, Frith); ber tree (The Gambia, Tattersall)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • (Senegal) nabagaya (Aub.) neggaïe (Aub.) sidar (Aub.) sider (Aub.) (SENEGAL, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ga-ngέngὲ (FG&G (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for ZIZIPHUS pubescens Oliv. [family RHAMNACEAE]
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, (1972) Author: MARSHALL C. JOHNSTON (University of Texas Herbarium)
Names
ZIZIPHUS pubescens Oliv. [family RHAMNACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, 2: 330 (1887); T.T.C.L.: 470 (1949); I.T.U., ed. 2: 329 (1952); Verdc. in B.J.B.B. 27: 355 (1957); Evrard in F.C.B. 9: 442, t. 45 (1960); K.T.S.: 395 (1961); R.B. Drummond in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 39: 59 (1965) & in F.Z. 2: 424 (1966). Type: Tanganyika Kilimanjaro, H.H. Johnston (K, holo. !)
?ZIZIPHUS espinosa Buettn. [family ], in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 32: 48 (1890). Type: Congo Leopoldville, Coquela, near Underhill, Tondoa, Buettner 493 (B, holo. †)
ZIZIPHUS jujuba Engl. var. scheffleri [family RHAMNACEAE], ., V.E. 3(2): 305 (1921). Type: Kenya, Machakos District, Kibwezi, Scheffler 3911 (B, holo. †, BM, E, K, L, P, S, Z, iso. !)
Celtis polyclada Peter [family ULMACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 2, Anhang: 1, t. 18/1 (1932). Type: Tanganyika, Lushoto District, Handëi, Malamba [Maramba]-Lugongo, Peter 21020 (B, lecto. !, K, photo.!)
Information
Unarmed shrubs (rarely described by collectors as clambering) or trees to 10(–20) m. tall. Bole short; slash-wood salmon-red to whitish; sapwood whitish; bark fairly rough to shallowly reticulately fissured, dark grey-brown. Branches spreading and often drooping; branchlets lenticellate, grey-brown, the youngest with a sericeous tomentum or ascending to spreading yellow-brown hairs 0.3–0.4 mm. long. Leaf-blades narrowly ovate or less commonly narrowly oblong-obovate, (2–)3–5(–8) cm. long, (1.4–)2–2.5(–3) cm. wide, at base slightly and roundly unequal-sided, shortly acuminate to less commonly merely acute or rarely blunt, finely and antrorsely serrate (the glandular point of each tooth accompanied by a bundle of greyish hairs 0.1–0.2 mm. long), beneath with a sericeous tomentum of spreading yellow-brown hairs ± 0.3 mm. long (especially dense along the nerves), above puberulent to glabrous, 3-nerved basally; petioles 3–6 mm. long, tomentose. Stipules subulate, 1–2 mm. long, caducous. Flowers yellow-green, numerous in axillary cymes; cymes 5–10 mm. long and broad, 8–20 flowered (only 1 flower per cyme producing fruit, rarely 2); peduncles 1–4 mm. long; pedicels 1–2 mm. long in flower, 3–6 mm. long in fruit. Sepals ±1.5 mm. long, spreading in flower. Petals ± 1 mm. long, very narrow, spreading in flower. Ovary 2-celled; stigmas 2. Fruit nearly globose (prolate when immature), yellow or red-yellow, 7–10 mm. long. Fig. 8/3, p. 25.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K4–7; T1–3, 6
Altitude range
0–1000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kitui District 32 km. S. of Kitui, 10 June 1955, Bogdan 4030 !KENYA Lake Victoria, Wangama I., 11 Jan. 1955, Argyle 103 !;KENYA Masai District Tsavo National Park West, Mzima Springs, 24 June 1953, Bally 8976 !TANGANYIKA Kwimba District Mantare, Nov.–Dec. 1933, Gillman 4 !TANGANYIKATANGANYIKA Kilwa District W. of Lungonya R., 11 Nov. 1967, Rodgers 88 !UGANDA Lango District Kyoga, Namasale, 20 May 1948, For. Dept. !;UGANDA Bunyoro District near Nile, Jan. 1947, Dale 528!;UGANDA Mengo District Bugerere, 5.6 km. N. of Bale, 29 June 1956, Langdale-Brown 2125 !
Distribution (external)
; Ethiopia
Congo
Sudan
Zambia
Rhodesia
Malawi
Mozambique; probably also Cameroun
Angola
Notes
Verdcourt in B.J.B.B. 27: 356 (1957) indicates the occurrence in Northern Frontier Province (K1) but no specimen has been seen from there or from the Turkana Province.

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