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Butonica caffra

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Name

Identification
Barringtonia racemosa (L.) Roxb. [family MYRTACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Butonica caffra Miers [family MYRTACEAE ]
Related name
  • Barringtonia caffra
  • Barringtonia unrecorded
  • Barringtonia racemosa
  • Butonica caffra

Flora

Entry for Barringtonia racemosa L. Roxb. [family BARRINGTONIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 261, (1978) Author: A. Fernandes
Names
Barringtonia racemosa L. Roxb. [family BARRINGTONIACEAE], Hort. Beng.: 52 (1814).—Spreng. in L., Syst. Veg. ed. 16, 3: 127 (1826).—DC., Prodr. 3: 288 (1828).—Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 1: t. 152 (1839).—Hook. in Curtis, Bot. Mag. 67: t. 3831 (1841).—Lawson in F.T.A. 2: 438 (1871).—Medley Wood, Hand. Fl. Natal: 49 (1907).— EngL, Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 2: 658, fig. 290 (1921).—Marloth, Fl. S. Afr. 2, 2: 218, fig. 140 (1925).—Knuth in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 219: 17 (1939).—Garcia in Estud. Ens. Doc. Junta Invest. Ultramar 12: 157 (1954).—Perrier in Fl. Madag., Lecythid.: 4, fig. 2 (1954).— Cufod. in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 29, Suppl.: 613 (1959).—Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees & Shrubs: 243, fig. 48 (1961).—Gomes e Sousa in Mem. Inst. Invest. Agron. Mocamb. 2, 1: 597, fig. 170 (1967).—Payensin Blumea 15: 192(1967). TAB 50. Type from India.
Eugenia racemosa L. [family BARRINGTONIACEAE], Sp. Pl. 1: 471 (1753).—Lam., Encycl. Méth. Bot. 3: 197 (1789). Type as above.
Butonica caffra Miers [family BARRINGTONIACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot. 1: 78 (1875). Type from S. Africa.
Barringtonia caffra Miers Knuth [family BARRINGTONIACEAE], tom. cit.: 19 (1939). Type as above.
Information
A much-branched riparian shrub or small to medium-sized tree, 2–20(27) m. high. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, obovate-oblong or obovate-oblanceolate, 14–38(42) x 4–14(16) cm., acute or acuminate but sometimes rounded at the apex, slightly serrate-crenulate at the margin, cuneate at the base, papyraceous; midrib and the (10)13-18(20) pairs of lateral nerves less prominent above than beneath; petiole 2·5-10(15) mm. long. Flowers greenish-yellow, in 20-70(100) mm. long pendulous racemes. Pedicels 3-16(25) mm. long. Calyx closed in bud, rupturing into 2-4(5) elliptic accrescent lobes. Petals 4,15-25 x 5-15 mm., elliptic, obtuse at the apex, convex, white. Stamens in (5)6 whorls, the inner one staminoidal; staminal-tube 3·5-6 mm. high; filaments 22·5-38 mm. long, red; anthers c. 0·8 x 0·8 mm. Disk a thick grooved ring. Receptacle tetragonal, acute. Ovary (2)3-4-locular, 1·5-3·5 mm. in diameter, ± globose; ovules 2-3 per locule; style (2)3-5·5 cm. long. Fruit fibrous, 5-7(9) x 2-4(5·5) cm., rounded or subangular, pyramidal, ovate or oblong in outline, slightly winged, 1 -seeded. Seed ovoid, 2-4 x 1-2·5 cm., subtetragonous, tapering towards the apex.
Habitat
In tidal river banks or swampy coastal localities.
Altitude range
100
0
inferred from habitat
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, Salamanga, Maputo R., fl.23.iv.l948, Torre 7688 (LISC); Inhaca I., 24.ix.l958, Mogg 28313 (K; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique GI Inhambane, Mutamba R., fl. i.1938, Gomes e Sousa 2063 (COI; K; LISC; PRE).Mozambique MS Vila Machado, Pungué R. port, Cararo rivulet, fl. 26.ii.l948, Mendonya 3803 (LISC).Mozambique Z Namacurra, Muijaiana rivulet, c. 30 m., fl. & fr. 23.i.1966, Torre & Correia 14065 (LISC).Mozambique N near António Enes, Meluli R., fl. & fr. 5.xi.1952, Barbosa & Balsinhas 5237 (BM; LISC).
Distribution (external)
Natal
Tanzania
Mafia I.
Comores
Madagascar
Seychelles
India
Ceylon
Andamans
Nicobars
Burma
S. Thailand
Laos
Malaysia
Hainan
Formosa
Riu Kiu Is.
Marianas Is.
Carolinas Is.
N. Australia
Bismarck Is.
Solomon Is
New Hebrides
New Caledonia
Fiji
Samoa Is.

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