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Canthium schimperianum

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Name

Identification
Canthium schimperianum A.Rich. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Psydrax schimperiana (A.Rich.) Bridson [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Plectronia nitens
  • Canthium vatkeanum
  • Canthium nitens
  • Psydrax schimperiana
  • Canthium schimperianum
  • Phallaria schimperi
  • Rytigynia neglecta
  • Plectronia schimperiana
  • Psydrax splendens
  • Plectronia schimperi
  • Plectronia vatkeana

Flora

Entry for PSYDRAX schimperiana (A. Rich.) Bridson [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PSYDRAX schimperiana (A. Rich.) Bridson [family RUBIACEAE], (1985);
Canthium schimperianum A. Rich. [family RUBIACEAE], (1848). Fig. 56. [type as above]
Information
Shrub or tree. Leaf-blades narrowly to broadly elliptic or obovate, 2–10.5 x 1–5 cm, acute or acuminate at apex, shiny above, glabrous; lateral nerves in (4–)5 main pairs; stipules 3–7(–10) mm long, ending in a linear keeled lobe. Flowers 4–5-merous, in ± sessile 7–50-flowered cymes; pedicels pubescent. Calyx-limb a shortly toothed rim. Corolla whitish; tube 2–3.5 mm long; lobes 3–3.5 mm long, acute. Fruit 5–6.5 x 6–8 mm, black when ripe.
Range
S3 subsp. occidentalis in West Africa.
Altitude range
c. 40 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & al. 25166; Senni 263.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Uganda
Tanzania
Dem. Rep. Congo
Rwanda
Burundi
Zambia
Malawi
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Notes
The Somali plant, with 4–7 mm long pedicels and angular young stems, is subsp. schimperiana. Subsp. occidentalis Bridson has shorter pedicels and almost winged young stems.

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