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Cassipourea gerrardii

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Cassipourea gerrardii Alston [family RHIZOPHORACEAE]
Type of Weihea gerrardii Schinz [family RHIZOPHORACEAE]
Type of Weihea natalica Brehmer [family RHIZOPHORACEAE]
Type of Cassipourea gerrardii (Schinz) Alston [family RHIZOPHORACEAE]
Type of Cassipourea gerrardii (Schinz) Alston [family RHIZOPHORACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Cassipourea gerrardii (Schinz) Alston [family RHIZOPHORACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cassipourea malosana
  • Weihea natalica
  • Cassipourea congensis
  • Weihea gerrardii
  • Cassipourea gerrardii

Flora

Entry for Cassipourea malosana Bak. Alston [family RHIZOPHORACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 81, (1978) Author: A. R. Torre and A. E. Gonçalves
Names
Cassipourea malosana Bak. Alston [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1925: 258 (1925).—Burtt Davy & Hoyle, N.C.L.: 83 (1936).—Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 472 (1949).—J. Lewis in Kew Bull. 1955: 144 (1955); in F.T.E.A., Rhizophraceae: 11 (1956).—Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees & Shrubs: 398, fig. 78 (1961). Type: Malawi, Zomba Distr., Malosa Mt. near Zomba, Whyte s.n. (K, holotype).
Weihea malosana Bak. [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1897: 267 (1897). Type as above.
Weihea gerrardii Schinz [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 867 (1897).—Swynnerton in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 67(1911). Type from S. Africa (Natal).
Cassipourea gerrardii Schinz Alston [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], in loc. cit.—Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T.: 250 (1926).—J. H. Ross, Fl. Natal: 258(1972). Type as Weihea gerrardii.
Weihea elliottii Engl. [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 40: 52, t. 1A (1907). Type from Kenya.
Cassipourea congoensis [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], sensu Alston in Kew Bull. 1925: 259 (1925) saltem pro parte et sensu J. Lewis in F.T.E.A., Rhizophoraceae: 12, fig. 4(6) (1956) non DC., Prodr. 3: 34 (1828) nom. nud.
Cassipourea elliottii Engl. Alston [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], torn. cit.: 260, cum fig. p. 243 (1925).—Burtt Davy & Hoyle, loc. cit.—Evans in Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Afr. 22: 283 (1948).— Brenan, loc. cit. Type as for Weihea elliottii.
Information
Shrub or tree up to 25 m. high; young stem ± appressed-pubescent to glabrescent (first year twigs sparsely hirsute); branches hairy when young and glabrous with age; bark greyish-yellow, grey or brown. Leaf-lamina 3–10 x 1–5 cm., oblanceolate, lanceolate, narrowly to broadly elliptic, oblong, ovate or obovate; apex subacute, obtuse or short- to long-acuminate (rarely acute, rounded or retuse); margins serrate or rarely entire; base cuneate or obtuse, rarely rounded; superior surface ± shining, glabrous, with conspicuous venation; inferior surface mat, sparsely appressed-pubescent to glabrous (except on the midrib) and with ± prominent venation; petiole 2–7 mm. long, pubescent to glabrous; stipules truncate to subrounded at the base, abaxial surface densely appressed-pubescent to pubescent at the apex only, adaxial surface glabrous, soon caducuous. Inflorescences l–4(6)-flowered, lax to ± congested. Flowers 4–5(6)-merous; pedicels 2–5(9) mm. long, pubescent, articulate near the apex; bracteoles 1·5–2·5 mm. long, conchiform, rounded or lacerate at the apex and truncate at the base. Calyx slightly pubescent to sericeous-pubescent outside and glabrous to slightly puberulous inside; calyx-tube 0·5–2 mm. long; calyx-lobes 3–6 mm. long, lanceolate, oblong or ovate-lanceolate. Petals 4–8 mm. long, spathulate, laciniate above, glabrous. Stamens 15–20; filaments 3–6 mm. long; anthers c. 1 mm. long, narrowly to broadly ellipsoid-oblong. Ovary 1–2 mm. long, ovoid to ± spherical, 3–4-locular, glabrous to densely hirsute; style 3–5 mm. long, glabrous to pubescent mainly towards the base, persistent. Fruit 6–10 mm. long, ± ellipsoid, ovoid to subspherical, sericeous-pubescent to glabrous.
Habitat
Moist forest, mixed forest, thickets, rain-forest and upland dry forest
Altitude range
1000–2200 m., sometimes at lower altitudes.
2200
1000
Distribution
Mozambique MS Vila Pery Distr., Manica, Rotanda, fl. 12.xi.1965, Torre & Correia 13061 (K; LISC; LMU; LUA; SRGH).Malawi S Zomba Distr., upper Mlunguzi above William’s Falls, fr. 23.ix.1961, Chapman 1464 (FHO; K; SRGH).Malawi C Dedza Distr., halfway between Nchencherere and Chongoni, Chapman 1083 (FHO; K; SRGH).Mozambique Z Pebane, near the lighthouse, fl. & fl. 12.i.1968, Torre & Correia 17108 (BM; BR; LISC; WAG).Malawi N Nyika Distr., Nyika Plateau, fl. xi.1965, Cottrell in GHS 166164 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Umtali Distr., Mt. Pene Forest, fl. 28.ix.1906, Swynnerton 1325 (BM; K; SRGH).Zambia W Kabompo Distr., on bank of Kabompo R. below “Boma”, fl. 20.xi.1952, Holmes 1005 (FHO; K).
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Somali Republic
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Swaziland
S. Africa (Transvaal and Natal)

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