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Bersama swynnertonii

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Name

Identification
Bersama swynnertonii Baker f. [family MELIANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Bersama swynnertonii Baker f. [family MELIANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Bersama unrecorded
  • Bersama swynnertonii

Flora

Entry for Bersama swynnertonii Bak. f. [family MELIANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 544, (1966) Author: F. White
Names
Bersama swynnertonii Bak. f. [family MELIANTHACEAE], in Journ. of Bot. 45: 14 (1907); in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 48 (1911). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 406 (1916). — Verdcourt in Kew Bull. 5, 2: 244 (1950). FRONTISP. Type: S. Rhodesia, Chipete forest patch, Swynnerton 9 (BM, holotype; K; SRGH).
Information
Evergreen tree up to 22 m. tall; bark on bole dark brown, rough, on branches smooth. Leaves up to 20 cm. long, imparipinnate; rhachis not winged; leaflets (2)3–4-jugate, opposite, distinctly petiolulate, up to 8 × 3·4 cm., ovate or lanceolate to obovate or oblanceolate, apex acuminate, margin entire, base cuneate, glabrous beneath, with venation prominent on both surfaces. Racemes up to 18 cm. long, slender. Flowers purplish-pink, with pedicels c. 6 mm. long. Calyx c. 5 mm. long, tomentellous. Petals c. 9 mm. long, tomentellous. Disk ^-shaped. Capsule c. 1·5 × 1·75 cm., tomentose at first, glabrescent in patches, rugose. Seeds bright red with a yellow cushion-shaped aril, c. 8 × 5 mm.
Habitat
In patches of evergreen forest, especially at edges and in kloof forest and riverine forest
Range
Not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1200–1800 m.
1800
1200
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Melsetter, Chisengu Forest Reserve, fl. xii.1955. Purely 4/55 (FHO-K; SRGH).

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