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Chrysophyllum alnifolium

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Identification
Isotype of Chrysophyllum alnifolium Engl. [family SAPOTACEAE ] Pouteria engleri Eyma [family SAPOTACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Pouteria alnifolia
  • Nemaluma engleri
  • Chrysophyllum alnifolium
  • Pouteria engleri
  • Lucuma unrecorded
  • Malacantha alnifolia

Flora

Entry for MALACANTHA alnifolia var. alnifolia [family SAPOTACEAE]
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, (1968) Author: J. H. Hemsley
Names
MALACANTHA alnifolia var. alnifolia [family SAPOTACEAE]
Chrysophyllum alnifolium Baker [family SAPOTACEAE], in F.T.A. 3: 499 (1877) [genus queried by original author]
Malacantha heudelotiana Pierre [family SAPOTACEAE], Not. Bot. Sapot.: 61 (1891); Engl., E.M. 8: 48 (1904); Aubrév., Fl. For. Côte d’Ivoire, ed. 2, 3: 134, t. 299 (1959), sed non sensu Hutch. & Dalz., F.W.T.A. 2: 12 (1931). Type: Gambia, Kombo, Heudelot 52 (P, holo.!)
Chrysophyllum ferrugineo-tomentosum Engl. [family SAPOTACEAE], in E.J. 28: 447 (1900). Types: Tanganyika, foothills of Uluguru Mts., Stuhlmann 8720 & between Mgeta and Mbakana [Rivers], Goetze 338 (both B, syn. †)
Malacantha ferrugineo-tomentosa (Engl.) Engl. [family SAPOTACEAE], E.M. 8: 48, t. 18/A (1904); T.T.C.L: 563 (1949)
Malacantha sp. [family SAPOTACEAE], sensu F. W. Andr., F.P.S. 2: 374 (1952)
Pouteria alnifolia (Baker) Roberty [family SAPOTACEAE], in Bull. I.F.A.N. 15: 1417 (1953) & Pet. Fl. Ouest-Afr.: 80 (1954)
Information
Young shoots and petioles with pale to dark brown pubescence of very densely or densely arranged short and ± erect hairs, rarely petioles becoming glabrescent.
Range
DISTR. K7; T3, 6 widespread from Senegal to Sudan Republic and south to Mozambique
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Mwele Mdogo Forest, 28 Aug. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4035 ! & Mrima Hill, 5 Sept. 1957, Verdcourt 1881 !TANGANYIKA E. Usambara Mts., Sigi valley, Dec. 1908 (fr.), Zimmermann in Herb. Amani G7668 !TANGANYIKA Handeni District Misufini, Oct. 1950, Semsei 564 !TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Mtibwa Forest Reserve [near Turiani], Aug. 1952 (fl. buds), Semsei 866 !

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