Compilation
Combretum quangense

12 Images see all

Previous
Next

Name

Identification
Combretum mossambicense (Klotzsch) Engl. [family COMBRETACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Exell,A.W., Combretum quangense Engl. & Diels [family COMBRETACEAE ]
Related name
  • Combretum mossambicense
  • Combretum quangense
  • Combretum mossambicence

Flora

Entry for Combretum mossambicense Klotzsch Engl. [family COMBRETACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 100, (1978) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Combretum trichopetalum Engl. [family COMBRETACEAE], tom. cit.: 92 (1895).—Engl. & Diels in Engl., Mon. Afr. Pflanz. 3: 97, t. 28 fig. C (1899).—Schinz, Pl. Menyharth.: 432 (1906).— Burtt Davy & Hoyle, N.C.L.: 39 (1936).—Gomes e Sousa in Bol. Soc. Estud. Col. Moçamb. 5, 32: 319 (1936). Syntypes from Tanzania.
Combretum rigidifolium Welw. ex Hiern [family COMBRETACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 342 (1898). Type from Angola.
Combretum ischnothyrsum Engl. & Diels [family COMBRETACEAE], in Engl., tom. cit.: 96 (1899). Type: Mozambique, Tete, Boroma, Menyharth 888a (Z, holotype).
Combretum quangense Engl. & Diels [family COMBRETACEAE], in Engl., tom. cit.: 98 (1899). Syntypes from Zaire and Angola.
Combretum cataractarum Diels [family COMBRETACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 39: 508 (1907).—Monro in Proc. & Trans. Rhod. Sci. Ass. 8, 2: 80 (1908).—Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5, 4: 427 (1916).—Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 1: 248 (1926).—O. B. Mill., B.C.L.: 42 (1948). Syntypes: Victoria Falls, Alien (B+), Engler 2925 (B+).
Combretum floribundum N.E.Br. ex Diels [family COMBRETACEAE], loc. cit. in syn. non Engl. & Diels (1899). Burtt Davy & Hoyle, N.C.L.: 38 (1936).
Combretum tomentosum [family COMBRETACEAE], sensu Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr.: 64 (1909).
Combretum detinens Dinter [family COMBRETACEAE], in Fedde Repert. 26: 170 (1919). Type from SW. Africa.
Combretum migeodii Exell [family COMBRETACEAE], in Joum. of Bot. 67: 48 (1929). Type from Tanzania.
Combretum armatum Phillips [family COMBRETACEAE], in Journ. Ecol. 18: 217 (1930) nom. nud.
Poivrea mossambicensis Klotzsch [family COMBRETACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1: 78, t. 13 (1861). Type as above.
Poivrea glutinosa Klotzsch [family COMBRETACEAE], tom. cit.: 79 (1861). Type: Mozambique, near Sena, Peters (B+, holotype).
Combretum mossambicense Klotzsch Engl. [family COMBRETACEAE], Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 292 (1895).—Engl. & Diels in EngL, Mon. Afr. Pflanz. 3: 98, t. 26 fig. B (1899).— Bak. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 69 (1911).—Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5, 4: 428 (1916).—Burtt Davy & Hoyle, N.C.L.: 39 (1936).—O. B. Mill., B.C.L.: 43 (1948).—Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 134 (1949); in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8, 5: 438 (1954)—Codd, Trees and Shrubs Kruger Nat. Park: 131, fig. 122b (1951).—Wild, Guide Fl. Vict. Falls: 146 (1953); in Rhod. Agric. Joum. 50, 5: 4, 7 (1953).— Exell & Garcia in Contr. Conhec. Fl. Moçamb. 2: 135(1954); C.F.A. 4: 78 (1970).— Stace in Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 4: 14 (1961).—F. White, F.F.N.R.: 282 (1962).—Fanshawe & Savory in Kirkia, 4: 190 (1964).—Boughey in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 30, 4: 167 (1964).—Exell, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 99: 9 (1966); in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 42: 6 (1968); in Kirkia, 7, 2: 219, t. 2 fig. 37 (1970)—Liben, F.C.B. Combret.: 26 (1968).—Wickens, F.T.E.A. Combret.: 63, fig. 6(40), fig. 7(40) (1973).—Jacobsen in Kirkia, 9, 1: 168 (1973).—Faria in Mem. Inst. Invest. Agron. Moçamb. 4: 100(1973). TAB. 31 fig. D; TAB.35 fig. 36. Type: Mozambique, Sena, Peters (B+, holotype; BM, fragment).
Poivrea senensis Klotzsch [family COMBRETACEAE], loc. cit. Type: rios de Sena, Peters (B+, holotype).
Combretum constrictum [family COMBRETACEAE], sensu Laws. in Oliv., F.T.A. 2: 423 (1871) quoad syn. Poivrea mossambicensis.
Combretum ukambense Engl. [family COMBRETACEAE], Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 291 (1895). Syntypes from Kenya.
Information
Small deciduous tree, shrub or woody climber, usually flowering before the leaves; bark grey to grey-brown; branchlets often pale, pubescent at first usually (but not always) soon glabrescent. Leaves opposite or subopposite; lamina up to 20 x 11 cm. but often only half that size, papyraceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong or rarely subcircular, hairy when young, usually glabrescent but sometimes retaining a dense indumentum, apex usually acuminate, base rounded to cordate; lateral nerves 5–9 pairs, rather prominent beneath; petiole up to 5 mm. long, base forming a curved spine. Inflorescences of axillary spikes, sometimes subcapitate, up to 5(7) cm. long, often in the axils of fallen leaves; rhachis tomentose; bracts up to 4 x 2·5 mm., ovate, stalked, caducous. Flowers usually (4)5-merous, white or pinkish. Lower receptacle c. 5–6 mm. long, tomentose, often constricted above and below the ovary; upper receptacle up to 9(11) x 4 mm., hairy, upper part broadly infundibuliform, lower part surrounding the disk subglobose, slightly constricted between the two parts. Sepals 2 x 1·8 mm., deltate or triangular. Petals white or pinkish, 7–9 x 2–3·5 mm., elliptic, pilose, unguiculate. Stamen-filaments 16–17 mm. long; anthers orange-red, 1·7–1·8 mm. long. Disk c. 1·5 mm. in diam., pilose margin not free. Style 18 mm. long. Fruit (4)5-winged, up to 2–3 x 2–2·5 cm., elliptic to subcircular in outline, pubescent, apical peg very short, wings up to 10 mm. broad, stipe up to 10 mm. long.
Habitat
Dry deciduous tree or shrub savanna; Baikiaea forest; thickets; termite mounds
Range
Widespread in Southern Tropical Africa and in SW. Africa and the Transvaal
Altitude range
hotter drier areas at low to medium altitudes.
1500
0
inferred from medium and low
Distribution
Mozambique M Magude, fl. & fr. 30.xi.1944, Mendonça 3175 (LMA).Mozambique GI Olaria, c. 10 km. NW. of Caniçado, fl. 2.x.1963, Leach & Bayliss 11788 (PRE; SRGH).Mozambique MS Chemba, Marínguè, fl. 19.vii.1941, Torre 3108 (BM; LISC).Mozambique T between Tete and Mandie, fl. 5.ix.1946, Gouveia & Pedro 2018 (LMJ; PRE).Mozambique Z Namagoa, fl. 22.ix.1948, fr. 20.x.1948, Faulkner 285 (COI; K; SRGH).Malawi S Port Herald Distr., Lower Shire R., fl. & fr. 27.ix.1956, Jackson 2063 (BM; FHO; K).Malawi C Kaombe R.,fl. & fr. 25.ix.1943, Bewon 411 (PRE).Zimbabwe S Triangle Sugar Estate, Mtilikwe R., fl. 10.x.1951, Kirkham 52/51 (FHO; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Melsetter Distr., Hot Springs, fl. & fr. 22.x.1948, Chase 939 (BM; COI; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Twenty Dales Estate, c. 19·2 km. E. of Salisbury, fl. ix.1946, Wild, Gouveia & Pedro in Pedro 2043 (LMJ).Zimbabwe W Victoria Falls, 885 m., fl. 17.ix.1954, Greenway 8804 (EA; FHO; K).Zambia S Livingstone, fl. 11.ix.1963, Lawton 1123 (FHO).Zambia E 6·4 km. E. of Fort Jameson, 1220 m., fl. & fr. l.x.1958, King 426 (SRGH).Zambia C near Beit Bridge, fl. 5.ix.1947, Brenan & Greenway in Brenan 7813 (FHO; K).Zambia W Ndola, fl. 14.viii.1952, White 3064 (FHO).Zambia N Kasama, fl. & fr., Lawton 764 (FHO).Mozambique N Nampula, fl. 15.x.1936, Torre 1337 (COI).Malawi N Rumpi, fl. viii.1953, Chapman 127 (FHO).Zambia B Sesheke, fl. ix.1921, Borle 287 (PRE).Zimbabwe N Lomagundi Distr., Mangula, fl. 30.ix.1962, Jacobsen 1790 (PRE).Botswana N Matlapaning Drift, near Maun, 760 m., fl. 11.ix.1954, Story 4651 (PRE).Caprivi Strip E. of Cuando R., fl. & fr. x.1945, Curson 1109 (PRE).
Notes
Faria (loc. cit.) records flowers with up to 7 petals and 14 stamens.

Related Materials