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Aningeria pseudoracemosa

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Identification
Aningeria pseudoracemosa J.H.Hemsl. [family SAPOTACEAE ] Verified by Hemsley, J.H., Pouteria pseudoracemosa (J.H.Hemsl.) L.Gaut. [family SAPOTACEAE ] (stored under name); Malacantha unrecorded unrecorded [family SAPOTACEAE ]
Related name
  • Aningeria pseudoracemosa
  • Pouteria pseudoracemosa
  • Malacantha unrecorded

Flora

Entry for ANINGERIA pseudoracemosa J. H. Hemsl. [family SAPOTACEAE]
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, (1968) Author: J. H. Hemsley
Names
ANINGERIA pseudoracemosa J. H. Hemsl. [family SAPOTACEAE], in K.B. 15: 283 (1961). Type: Tanganyika, Pangani District, Bushiri, Faulkner 729 (K, holo.!, EA, iso.!)
Information
Tree with smooth greyish or greyish-brown bark; height up to 20 m. Terminal buds, young shoots and petioles with dense ferrugineous indumentum; older twigs with deep purplish-brown bark, glabrous. Petioles 5–12 mm. long. Leaf-lamina elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 8–17 cm. long and 4–7.6 cm. wide, apex rounded to subacute, base rounded to broadly cuneate; margin slightly to conspicuously inrolled; lower surface softly pubescent when young, later becoming puberulous to glabrescent, indumentum usually dense and ferrugineous on midrib and nerves; lateral nerves 14–20 each side. Inflorescence raceme-like with flowers fascicled along a short ± erect or deflexed axillary shoot; rhachis up to 8 cm. long, densely ferrugineous pubescent; bracts, pedicels and flower-buds with dense floccose hairs; bracts subulate to narrowly ovate, up to 4 mm. long; pedicels 1–5 mm. long. Outer sepals ± ovate to elliptic, innermost ± oblanceolate, 4.5–6 mm. long, 2–3 mm. wide. Corolla-tube 4.5–5.5 mm. long, ± 3 mm. in diameter; lobes rounded to bluntly obtuse, up to 2 mm. long, ciliate. Free part of filament 1–1.5 mm. long. Staminodes ± subulate, narrowly oblong or ± spathulate, 1–1.5 mm. long. Ovary subconical, up to 2 mm. in diameter; style 5–8 mm. long; stigma 5-papillate. Fruits unknown.
Range
DISTR. T3, 6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
10–1000 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA E. Usambara Mts., Kihuhwi, 14 Nov. 1944, Flamwell in Herb. Amani H87/44 ! & Monga, 31 May 1945, Czurn B22 !TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Kimboza Forest Reserve, July 1952 (fl.), Semsei 740 !
Notes
The possession of the specialized short axillary flower-bearing shoots serves to distinguish this species from all other East African Sapotaceae. The condition is foreshadowed in A. adolfi-friedericii where a single gathering, Hockliffe in F.D. 1369, from Mt. Kenya, shows a parallel development of young axillary flower-bearing shoots near the branch apex, but some of these bear typical foliage leaves and differ but slightly from normal axillary branchlets.

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