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Allophylus decipiens

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Allophylus decipiens (Sond.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Isosyntype of Schmidelia decipiens Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Filed as Allophylus decipiens (Sond.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Isosyntype of Schmidelia decipiens Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Type of Schmidelia decipiens Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Syntype of Schmidelia decipiens Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Isosyntype of Schmidelia decipiens Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Allophylus decipiens (Sond.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Type? of Allophylus decipiens Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Allophylus decipiens (Sond.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Isosyntype of Schmidelia decipiens Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Allophylus decipiens (Sond.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Type of Schmidelia decipiens Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Original material of Allophylus decipiens Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Isosyntype of Allophylus decipiens (Sond.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Allophylus decipiens (Sond.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Syntype of Schmidelia decipiens Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Allophylus decipiens (Sond.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Syntype of Allophylus decipiens (Sond.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Allophylus decipiens (Sond.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Isosyntype of Schmidelia decipiens Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE]
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Identification
Allophylus decipiens Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Schmidelia decipiens Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Rhus aegypticum
  • Rhus angustifolia
  • Schmidelia decipiens
  • Schmidelia unrecorded
  • Rhus undulata
  • Rhus decipiens
  • Rhus cuneifolia
  • Schmidelia undulata
  • Allophylus decipiens

Flora

Entry for Allophylus decipiens Sond. Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 494, (1966) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Allophylus decipiens Sond. Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3, 5: 313 (1896); in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 2: 522 (1932). — Bak. f. in Journ. of Bot. 57: 160 (1919). — de Winter in Bothalia, 6: 407 (1954). TAB. 100 fig. 4. Type from S. Africa.
Rhus spicata Thunb. [family SAPINDACEAE], Fl. Cap. 2: 217 (1818). Type from S. Africa.
Schmidelia decipiens Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 239 (1860). Type as for A. decipiens.
Allophylus spicatus Thunb. Fourcade [family SAPINDACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 21: 100 (1932) non A. spicatus (Poir.) Radlk. (1896).
Information
Many-stemmed shrub; branchlets silver-grey, appressed-pubescent when young, soon glabrescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 0·5–3·5 cm. long, appressed- or crisped-pubescent; terminal leaflet usually c. 1 1/2times as long as the lateral ones; petiolules up to 1 mm. long or leaflets subsessile; lamina of terminal leaflet 1–4·5 × 0·5–2·5 cm., papyraceous, shortly and sparsely appressed- or crisped-pubescent on the midrib and lateral nerves and with occasional tufts of hairs on the under surface of the axils of the latter, otherwise glabrous, lobed usually to about halfway to the midrib (at least in some leaves), lobes generally rounded but apex occasionally acute, base cuneate and often narrowed; lateral nerves 3–6 pairs. Inflorescence 1·5–6 cm. long, unbranched, appressed-pubescent. Flowers whitish, in few-flowered very shortly pedunculate cymules; pedicels up to 2 mm. long. Outer sepals 1·3 × 1·3 mm., subcircular, inner l·3 × 1 mm., elliptic, all glabrous or nearly so. Petals 1·2 × 1 mm., obovate. Stamens with pilose filaments 2 mm. long; Staminodes with filaments 0·7 mm. long in female flowers. Style 1 mm. long, 2-fid. Fruit (not known from our area) 3·5 mm. in diam., globose.
Habitat
Thickets and thicket margins of riverine forests
Altitude range
at low altitudes.
800
0
inferred from low
Distribution
Mozambique M Umbeluzi, fl. 18.ii.1955, Pedro 5005 (LMJ).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
Notes
The above description (apart from the fruit) is of Mozambique specimens. In S. Africa some specimens have much less deeply lobed leaflets.

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