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Allophylus chirindensis

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Type of Allophylus chirindensis Baker f. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Allophylus chirindensis Baker f. [family SAPINDACEAE]
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Identification
Allophylus chirindensis Baker f. [family SAPINDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Exell, A.W.,
Related name
  • Allophylus chirindensis

Flora

Entry for ALLOPHYLUS chirindensis Baker f. [family SAPINDACEAE]
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, (1998) Author: DAVIES & B. VERDCOURT
Names
ALLOPHYLUS chirindensis Baker f. [family SAPINDACEAE], in J.L.S. 40: 48 (1911) & in J.B. 57: 188 (1919); Exell in F.Z. 2: 505 (1966); Exell & Sousa in Fl. Moçamb. 51: 12 (1973). Type: Zimbabwe, Chirinda Forest, Swynnerton 112 (BM, holo., K! (2 sheets), iso.)
ALLOPHYLUS zimmermannianus Gilg [family SAPINDACEAE], in V.E. 3(2): 270 (1921), nom. nud.; T.T.C.L.: 555 (1949); Beentje, K.T.S.L.: 413 (1994), nom. invalid .
Information
Much-branched shrub or tree 3–15 m. tall; bark silvery grey; branchlets pale greyish, lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves trifoliate; petiole 3–16 cm. long, grooved, glabrous or minutely puberulous; petiolule of terminal leaflet 1.2–2 cm. long; leaflets drying pale bright green, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 9–19.5 cm. long, 3.5–9 cm. wide, rounded to acuminate at the apex, narrowly cuneate at the base, subentire, coarsely undulate-crenate and shortly denticulate (the teeth hydathodes) or serrate, thin, glabrous or minutely puberulent on nerves beneath with white hairs and sometimes with tufts in the nerve axils beneath; lateral nerves in 7–13 pairs. Inflorescences up to 28 cm. long, much branched, the branches 10–14 cm. long, glabrous or sparsely white-puberulous; peduncle 14–20 cm. long; cymules few-flowered, sessile; pedicels 3–4 mm. long, glabrous. Flowers white or yellow; outer sepals round, 1.8 mm.diameter, inner elliptic, 1.8 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, glabrous; petals spathulate, 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, with hairy scale. Filaments 2 mm. long; staminodes in female flowers 0.6 mm. long. Ovary 2-lobed, minutely pubescent; style 1.5 mm. long. Fruit red, subglobose, 7 mm. in diameter, minutely puberulous when young or ± glabrous.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 3, 8
Altitude range
350–850 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Lango ya Mwagandi [Longo Mwagandi] Forest, 20 May 1968, Magogo & Glover 1098!TANZANIA Lushoto District E. Usambara Mts., Kisiwani, 2 May 1939, Greenway 5823! & Amani, Zimmerman 1126!TANZANIA Lindi District Rondo Plateau, Mchinjiri, Jan. 1932, Semsei 622!
Distribution (external)
; Mozambique (Vila Pery)
E. Zimbabwe
Notes
Gilg’s name has been used for this species but was never validated. I agree with pencilled comments by Vollesen on the covers suggesting the identity as A. chirindensis .

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