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Antidesma venosum

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Name

Identification
Antidesma venosum E.Mey. ex Tul. [family PHYLLANTHACEAE ]
Related name
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Flora

Entry for ANTIDESMA venosum Tul. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Carter (Euphorbia, Monadenium), M. G. Gilbert (Acalypha, Andrachne, Antidesma, Bridelia, Caperonia, Cephalocroton, Chrozophora, Clutia, Dalechampia, Flueggea, Givotia, Manihot, Meineckia, Micrococca, Oldfieldia, Phyllanthus, Ricinus, Suregada, Tragia), and M. Thulin (Croton, Drypetes, Erythrococca, Excoecaria, Jatropha, Spirostachys and Thecacoris) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ANTIDESMA venosum Tul. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1851). Fig. 159.
Information
Evergreen shrub or tree, sometimes straggling, 1–9(–15) m high; most parts usually pubescent to tomentose. Petioles 3–7(–10) mm long; leaf-blade elliptic-obovate to oblong-lanceolate, (1.5–)3–10(–17) x (1–)2–5(–9) cm, base rounded to sometimes cuneate, tip rounded to shortly obtusely acuminate. Male inflorescences spicate, often pendent, (4–)7–10(–12) cm long, often with 1–4 basal branches; flowers (3–)4(–5)-merous; calyx 0.5–1 mm long, greenish or yellowish, sometimes darker tinged; stamens alternating with and ± enveloped by contiguous disc glands. Female inflorescence similar to male but sometimes paniculate due to gall-mite attack; pedicel 0.5–0.8 mm long; calyx 1 mm long, urceolate; ovary glabrous, styles 2. Fruits 5–7(–8) mm, irregularly and coarsely reticulate-rugose, reddish to almost black when ripe.
Range
S3 W Ethiopia west to Gambia, Kenya and Uganda south to Natal and Namibia
Altitude range
c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Friis & al. 4988; Maunder 141.
Distribution (external)
?Madagascar
Notes
The collections from the Flora area are much less hairy than usual for A. venosum, but they seem best included within this rather variable species, which is only poorly differentiated from A. membranaceum Muell. Arg. and A. vogeliana Muell. Arg.

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