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Cassipourea verticillata

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Identification
Cassipourea verticillata N.E.Br. [family RHIZOPHORACEAE ] Verified by Brown, N.E., Cassipourea gummiflua Tul. [family RHIZOPHORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Lewis, J.,
Related name
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  • Cassipourea verticillata

Flora

Entry for Cassipourea gummiflua (N.E. Br.) J. Lewis var. verticillata [family RHIZOPHORACEAE]
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, (1956) Author: JOHN LEWIS
Names
Cassipourea gummiflua (N.E. Br.) J. Lewis var. verticillata [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], in K.B. 1955: 158 (1955). Types: South Africa, Natal, near Pinetown, Wood 3876 (K, syn.!) and near Durban, Wood 4619 (K, syn.!)
Cassipourea verticillata N.E. Br. [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], in K.B. 1894: 5 (1894)
Dactylopetalum verticillatum (N.E. Br.) Schinz [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 866 (1897)
Cassipourea redslobii Engl. [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], in E.J. 54: 368 (1917). Types: Tanganyika, Morogoro District: Nguru Mts., near Manyangu, Bittkau in Redslob 2981 (B, lecto.; BM & K, photo-lecto. showing dissections!) & Redslob 2907 (B, syn.)
Cassipourea verticillata Engl. f. decussata [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], in E.J. 54: 369 (1917). Type: Tanganyika, Ukinga, Manganyema Mt., Goetze 1215 (B, holo. †)
Information
Leaves narrowly elliptic, elliptic or rarely broadly elliptic, cuneate or rarely rounded to an acute base, usually shallowly sinuate or bluntly and shallowly serrate above the middle, rarely entire. Pedicels more than 2 mm. (up to 4 mm.) long. Calyx-lobes and petals 5 or 6; stamens 10 or 12. Ovary regularly pubescent in ± the upper half. Fruit puberulous above (shortly and perhaps obscurely).
Range
DISTR. T6, 7
Altitude range
1900–2100 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Iringa District Kiwere [Kivere], 15 Mar. 1947, Gilchrist 97 in F.H. 1926! Livingstone Mts., Upangwa, May 1953, Eggeling 6535! and Kigogo Forest Reserve, 9 Sept. 1937, Pitt[-Schenkel] 564!
Distribution (external)
; Nyasaland
Portuguese East Africa
South Africa
Natal
Seychelles (single record; probably introduced)
Brit. Cameroons
Bamenda

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