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Brucea macrocarpa

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Brucea macrocarpa Stannard [family SIMAROUBACEAE]
Brucea macrocarpa Stannard [family SIMAROUBACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Brucea macrocarpa Stannard [family SIMAROUBACEAE ] (stored under name); Brucea tenuifolia Engl. [family SIMAROUBACEAE ]
Related name
  • Brucea macrocarpa
  • Brucea tenuifolia

Flora

Entry for BRUCEA macrocarpa Stannard [family SIMAROUBACEAE]
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, (2000) Author: Brian Stannard
Names
BRUCEA macrocarpa Stannard [family SIMAROUBACEAE], in K.B. 40: 38 (1985); K.T.S.L.: 375, fig. (1994). Type: Kenya, Kiambu District, without precise locality, Bally 10464 (K!, holo.)
?Brucea tenuifolia [family ], [sensu K.T.S.: 535 (1961), non Engl.]
Information
Shrub or small tree, 3–4 m tall. Leaves 45–72 cm long; lateral leaflets ovate to elliptic, 8–15 cm long, 3.5–8 cm wide, base asymmetrically rounded to broadly cuneate, margin remotely serrate or repand, apex shortly acuminate with acute tip, thinly coriaceous, glabrous or sparsely ferruginous pubescent along main veins, gland-dots on or very close to margin or often forming tip of tooth; leaflets subsessile (usually towards the leaf apex) or with petiolules to 7 mm long, terminal petiolule 35–37 mm long; petiole and rachis ferruginous pubescent (particularly at the joints and towards the base) to glabrescent. Inflorescence (male only seen) 38–55 cm long, slightly shorter than subtending leaf, spiciform; rachis ferruginous pubescent; flowers usually in glomerules. Sepals 4(–5), triangular, 0.5–1 mm long, 0.75–1 mm wide, glabrous to glabrescent. Petals 4(–5), round to broadly obovate, 1–2 mm long, 1–1.75 mm wide, glabrous or glabrescent. Stamens 4(–5), 1–1.75 mm tall; anthers rotund, 0.5–0.75 mm long and wide. Disc 0.75–1 mm in diameter. Gynoecium absent in male flower. Infructescence 13–50 cm long, rachis sparsely pubescent. Fruits of 1–2 mericarps on fruiting pedicels 3–10 mm long; mericarps 14–18 mm long, 9–11 mm in diameter, acute at apex, glabrous; sarcocarp thin; endocarp deeply and reticulately wrinkled, hard. Seed 12–13 mm long, 7–8 mm wide.
Range
DISTR. K 4 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
(790 (see note)–)1450–2000 m
Distribution
KENYA Fort Hall District Thika, gorge near Blue Posts Hotel, 19 Feb. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1236! & Thika Falls, 13 Oct. 1972, Hansen 730!;KENYA Kiambu District Kiambu, “in Hugh Davidson’s garden”, Sept. 1948, Gardner in Bally 6374!
Notes
The more leathery toothed leaves with gland-dots at the margin, the glabrous/ glabrescent flowers and the larger fruits make this species clearly distinguishable from B. tenuifolia, in which this material has sometimes been included.One collection (Gillett & Ament 20168) from a patch of evergreen swamp forest near upper Rojewero [Rojwera] R., Meru National Park, Meru District, is described as being 1–2 m and growing at ± 790 m altitude. The Kew specimen has only young fruits, is smaller in stature and grows at a lower altitude than given in the above description, but the serrate leaf-margins with glandular teeth and the somewhat coarser texture of the lamina would indicate that it belongs in this species.

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