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Casearia engleri

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Name

Identification
Casearia battiscombei R.E.Fr. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] Casearia battiscombei R.E.Fr. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Sleumer, H., Casearia battiscombei R.E.Fr. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] Verified by HW, Casearia chirindensis Engl. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] Casearia engleri Gilg [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] Samyda unrecorded unrecorded [family FLACOURTIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Casearia battiscombei
  • Casearia engleri
  • Casearia chirindensis
  • Samyda unrecorded

Flora

Entry for CASEARIA runssorica Gilg [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
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, (1975) Author: H. Sleumer (Rijksherbarium, Leiden)
Names
CASEARIA runssorica Gilg [family FLACOURTIACEAE], in Z.A.E.: 570 (1913); V.E. 3 (2): 589 (1921); Gilg in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 21: 454 (1925); Sleumer in B.J.B.B. 41: 421 (1971). Type: Zaire, W. Ruwenzori, Butagu R., Mildbraed 2676 (B, holo. †)
CASEARIA engleri [family FLACOURTIACEAE], [sensu Andrews, F.P.S. 1: 158 (1950); I.T.U., ed. 2: 372 (1952), non Gilg]
Information
Small or middle-sized tree, rarely up to 40 m. high, bole cylindric, 20–40 (rarely up to 60) cm. in diameter; bark greyish-brownish, slightly rugose; branches ± horizontal; branchlets prismatic-angular and glabrous at tips. Leaf-blade coriaceous, ovate-oblong or oblong, entire, (5–)7–14(–18) cm. long, (3–)4–6(–8) cm. wide, subacuminate, broadly cuneate or sometimes almost rounded at the usually only slightly unequal-sided base, smooth and shining above; lateral veins 6–7(–9) pairs, arcuate, prominent beneath only; tertiary veins laxly prominent-reticulate beneath; petiole 1–1.3(–1.5) cm. long. Inflorescences axillary, fascicled or glomerate, from a subglobose many-bracteolate cushion, glabrous; pedicels 3(–5) mm. long. Flowers greenish. Calyx-lobes ± 3 mm. long. Fruit subglobular to broadly ellipsoidal, subtrigonous, yellow-orange, few-seeded, (1.5–)2–2.5(–3) × 1.5(–2) cm.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4; T1
Altitude range
(750–)850–2100(–2450) m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Bukoba District Minziro Forest Reserve, Sept. 1950, Watkins 534 in F.D. 3273 ! & Kantale, Gillman 383 ! & without locality, Gillman 622 !UGANDA Bunyoro District Budongo Forest, May 1935 & Nov. 1937, Eggeling 1728 !UGANDA Kigezi District Kanungu, Oct. 1940, Eggeling 4194!UGANDA Masaka District Sese Is., Sozi, June 1925, Maitland 788 !
Distribution (external)
S. Sudan
NE. and east-central Zaire
Rwanda
Burundi

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