Entry for CASEARIA stipitata Mast. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 492, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
CASEARIA stipitataMast. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Information
A small tree (20 ft.), the younger branches puberulous. Leaves glabrous, subcoriaceous, or with a few weak hairs along the nerves on the lower face, oblong, entire, rounded or obtuse at the base, shortly acuminate, 5–6 in. long, 2–2 1/2 in. wide. Petioles very short. Flowers numerous, in dense, stalked axillary clusters; stipes shorter than the petiole. Sepals leathery. Staminodes flat, ribbon-shaped, pilose, nearly equalling the glabrous fertile stamens in length; anthers small, ovate, pointed. Ovary 3-lobed; style short; stigma capitate.
