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Celtis australis

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Identification
Isotype of Celtis australis Sattarian [family ULMACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Sattarian &Van der Maesen,
Related name
  • Celtis madagascariensis
  • Celtis africana
  • Sponia affinis
  • Sponia velutina
  • Trema orientalis
  • Celtis caucasica
  • Celtis guineensis
  • Celtis australis

Flora

Entry for CELTIS kraussiana Bernh. [family ULMACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 2, page 1, (1916) Author: (By A. B. Rendle)
Names
CELTIS kraussiana Bernh. [family ULMACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 87. —Planch. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me sér. x. 295 and in DC. Prodr. xvii. 173; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 190; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 115; Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 97; Almagia in Ann. R. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 119 (var. flavescens Engl. (nomen)); Fiori, Boschi e Piant. Legn. Eritrea, 111.
CELTIS vesiculosa Hochst. ex Planch. [family ULMACEAE], in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me sér. x. 295.
CELTIS australis A. Rich. [family ULMACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 257 (not of Linn.).
CELTIS Burmanni Planch. [family ULMACEAE], l.c. 296.
CELTIS Henriquesii Engl. [family ULMACEAE], Notizbl. königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iii. 22; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1027.
Celtis sp Ficalho [family ULMACEAE], Pl. Uteis, 260.
Celtis rhamnifolia Presl [family ULMACEAE], in Abhand. K. Böhm. Ges. Wiss. ser. 5, iii. (1845) 467, nom. abort.
Celtis (?) lactea Sim [family ], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 97. t. xcvi B.
Celtis foliis subrotundis Burm. [family ULMACEAE], etc.,Rar. Afr. Plant. 242, t. 88; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1915, 298.
Information
A deciduous shrub or tree to 70 ft. high; twigs reddish, more or less ferruginously pubescent when young. Leaves shortly petioled, ultimately thinly coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, or ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base unequally rounded, margin serrate but often entire below the apex and in the lower portion, 1 1/2–3 in. long, 1/2–1 1/2 in. wide, 3-nerved, lateral nerves ascending, nerves prominent below; indumentum varying, ferruginously pubescent especially on the veins when young, generally becoming glabrous except on the veins beneath, and scabridulous, but sometimes pubescent on both faces; petiole 1–3 lin. long, puberulous. Stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate to broadly-oblanceolate, 1 1/2–3 lin. long. Male flowers in subsessile or stalked fascicles of 4–7 flowers at lower leafless nodes (2–4) of branchlets; fertile (੐ or ćf;) flowers 2–4 at the upper nodes, generally in the axil of a young leaf, intermediate inflorescences sometimes polygamous; pedicels densely clothed with short soft spreading hairs, male 1 1/2–2 lin. long, fertile to 4 lin. long. Sepals reddish, oblong-elliptic, subacute, concave, softly hairy on the back, about 1 lin. long. Ovary and long linear-lanceolate stigmas (1 1/2 lin.) densely hairy, Drupe sub globose, smooth, 2 1/2 lin. long, slender stalk to nearly 1 in. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Cazengo; Granja de S. Luiz, Gossweiler, 4364! 4507! 4521! 4527! 4530! 4687! 4688! 4815! 4857! Golungo Alto; Quibolo, Welwitsch, 6263! Sange, Welwitsch, 6264! Luinha, Welwitsch, 6283! River Coango near Cacarambola, Welwitsch, 6306! Queta Mountains, Welwitsch, 6286! Bumbo; Chella Mountains, Welwitsch, 6307! 6308! Dekindt, 1049!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. M’Chopes, Sim, 5299!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Lake Victoria; Kome Islands, Holtz, 1591!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. without precise locality, Buchanan, 85!Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. near Chirinda, at 3800 ft., Swynnerton, 1402! Victoria, Monro, 394!Abyssinia Nile Land Gunnia and Serriro, at about 4000 ft., Schimper, 889! Semen, on mountains, Schimper, 1162! Abbena, Steudner, 1364! Shireh, Petit ! and without precise locality, Quartin Dillon & Petit, 91!Eritrea Nile Land various localities, Schweinfurth and Riva, 1697! Schweinfurth, Terracciano & Pappi, 646, 745! Fiori, Harar, Robecchi Bricchetti, 151!British East Africa Nile Land Kipayo, forest at 4000 ft., Dümmer, 513! Mau escarpment, Baker ! Mau forests, Hutchins, 601!Uganda Nile Land Usoga, Scott Elliot, 7211: Toro, 5000 ft., Dawe, 485! Budongo and Bugoma forests, Dawe, 785! 1023! Mabira forest, 4000 ft., Dawe, 176!
Distribution (external)
South Africa
Arabia

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