Cussonia holstiiHarms ex Engl. [family ARALIACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Cussonia holstiiTennant [family ARALIACEAE ] Verified by Tennant,J.R.,
Related name
Cussonia holstii
Cussonia bequaertii
Flora
Entry for CUSSONIA holstii Harms ex Engl. [family ARALIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by S. Fici [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CUSSONIA holstiiHarms ex Engl. [family ARALIACEAE], (1894). Fig. 177.
Information
Tree to 20 m tall, with fissured bark. Juvenile leaves simple, ± deeply palmately lobed, the adult ones digitately compound with petiole up to c. 40 cm long; leaflets 3–7, ovate, hairy to glabrous, (5–)6–13(–18) x 3–7(–9) cm, acuminate at the apex, cuneate to cordate and slightly asymmetric at the base, with serrate or crenate margin; petiolules up to 6 cm long. Flowers sessile, in spikes up to 12(–15) cm long, spikes often many together; bracts subtending flowers scale-like, c. 1 mm long. Fruit subglobose, 3–6 mm long.
