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Chailletia toxicaria

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Identification
Chailletia toxicaria G.Don [family DICHAPETALACEAE ] Verified by Breteler,F.J., 1980 Dichapetalum toxicarium (G.Don) Baill. [family DICHAPETALACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Parinarium unrecorded
  • Dichapetalum madagascariense
  • Chailletia affinis
  • Chailletia toxicaria
  • Dichapetalum guineense
  • Dichapetalum toxicarium
  • Dichapetalum affine
  • Rhamnus paniculatus

Flora

Entry for CHAILLETIA toxicaria Don [family DICHAPETALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 338, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
CHAILLETIA toxicaria Don [family DICHAPETALACEAE], DC. Prod. ii. 57.
CHAILLETIA erecta Don [family DICHAPETALACEAE], DC. Prod. ii. 58?
CHAILLETIA affinis Planch. [family DICHAPETALACEAE], Fl. Nigrit. 276.
Information
A glabrous shrub or the young shoots and inflorescence mealy-puberulous at first. Leaves rather coriaceous, petiolate, oval-oblong, shortly and obtusely cuspidate or acuminate, base acute or cuneate, glabrous, 2 1/2–6 in. long, 1 1/4–2 1/4 in. broad, occasionally rather larger; petiole 1/4– 1/3 in. Stipules minute, subulate, deciduous. Flowers 2 lines long or little more, in small glomerules, either subsessile and axillary or adnate to the petiole or racemose from a straight common peduncle sometimes 1–2 1/2 in. long, a small leaf frequently subtending the glomerules. Pedicels equalling or shorter than the calyx, the ovate-elliptical lobes of which are erect. Petals shortly 2-fid, free. Ovary villous; styles minutely 3-fid. Fruit 1–1 1/2 in. long, ellipsoidal, hard and woody, 1-celled, 1-seeded.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea T. Vogel! and others;Senegambia Upper Guinea
Notes
I have not seen authentic specimens of Don's plant, but there can be little doubt of the identity of our specimens. The seeds are said to be poisonous. We have specimens in bud of an allied species from the Niger (Barter), very similar to var. elliptica, but with a different form of cymose inflorescence and the petals minutely or unequally 2-fid. Whether a variety or distinct species is uncertain. Rhamnus paniculatus, Schum. et Thonn. Guin. Pl. 131 (Ceanothus? guineensis, DC. Prod. ii. 30) is, as pointed out by Mr. Bentham in Fl. Nigrit., a Chailletia. The description does not enable me to distinguish it from C. toxicaria. An allied plant, perhaps a new species, from Cape Coast (Brass), is in the herbarium of the British Museum.

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