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Cryptocarya liebertiana

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Name

Identification
Cryptocarya liebertiana Engl. [family LAURACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cryptocarya liebertiana
  • Cryptocarya transvaalensis

Flora

Entry for CRYPTOCARYA liebertiana Engl. [family LAURACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 171, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CRYPTOCARYA liebertiana Engl. [family LAURACEAE], Jahrb. xxvi. 390, t. 10, fig. B.
Information
A tree of medium size; branches and leaves (particularly the petiole and midrib) fulvo-pubescent when young, soon glabrous. Leaves ovate to elliptic, subacute to subacuminate, acute at the base, 2 1/2–4 in. long, 1 1/4–2 in. broad, coriaceous, green above, glaucescent beneath; lateral nerves 4–5 on each side, the lowest pair more oblique than the others and somewhat distant from them, reticulation very close and fine below; petioles 4–8 lin. long. Inflorescences up to 10 lin. long, greyish or fulvo-pubescent, 7–9-flowered; peduncle slender, 5–7 lin. long; pedicels up to 3/4 lin. long or hardly any. Perianth not quite 1 1/2 lin. long, sparingly pubescent without; receptacle oblong, 3/4–1 lin. long; segments elliptic, the inner slightly narrower than the outer, all finely pubescent within. Filaments pubescent; anthers ovate, acuminate, outer 6 about 3/8 lin. long, inner smaller, narrowly acute; staminal glands stipitate, their stalks inserted between the stamens of the second and third whorl, but converging in pairs towards the latter; staminodes substipitate. Fruit globose, 6–8 lin. in diam.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara, on mountain slopes near Muafa, 3600 ft., Buchwald, 167! 492!
Notes
Buchwald's specimen 492 in the British Museum collections has globose fruits, black with a bluish bloom, and crowned with the short persistent cylindric neck of the receptacle. Engler, on the other hand, describes the fruit as reddish-hairy.

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