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Cussonia bequaertii

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Name

Identification
Cussonia bequaertii De Wild. [family ARALIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Cussonia holstii Harms ex Engl. [family ARALIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Cussonia holstii
  • Cussonia bequaertii

Flora

Entry for CUSSONIA holstii var. holstii [family ARALIACEAE]
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, Author: J. R. TENNANT
Names
CUSSONIA holstii var. holstii [family ARALIACEAE], ; Tennant in K.B. 14: 224 (1960)
CUSSONIA bequaertii De Wild. [family ARALIACEAE], Pl. Bequaert. 2: 89 (1923). Type: Congo Republic, Kivu Province, Angi, Bequaert 5791 (BR, holo.)
Cussonia sp. [family ARALIACEAE], sensu Battiscombe, Cat. Trees Kenya Col.: 86, photo. (1926)(Prob.)
Cussonia boranensis Cufod. [family ARALIACEAE], in Miss. Biol. Borana, Racc. Bot., Angiosp.-Gymnosp.: 149, fig. 42 (1939). Type: Ethiopia, Galla-Sidamo, Araro [Arero], Cufodontis 284 (FI, holo.)
Information
Rhachis of spike puberulous to pubescent; floral bracts scale-like, as broad at base as long, about 1 mm. long, with a rounded to acute apex, almost glabrous. Fruits urceolate with strongly convex lateral walls, 4.0–5.5 mm. long, not appreciably ribbed when dry; style-arms up to 0.5 mm. long in mature fruits, rarely widely divergent. Fig. 2/3–5.
Range
DISTR. U1, 2; K1, 3, 4, 6; T1–3
Altitude range
1110–2460 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Moyale, 1 Nov. 1952 (sterile), Gillett 14111!KENYA Nakuru District eastern Mau Forest Reserve, 9 Sept. 1949 (fr.), Maas Geesteranus 6207!KENYA Masai District Cis-Mara, Feb. 1957 (fr.), Ivens 872!TANGANYIKA Mwanza District Bukumbi, Usagara, 27 Sept. 1952 (sterile), Tanner 1025!TANGANYIKA W. Kilimanjaro, small valley W. of Sanya sawmills, 13 Feb. 1951 (fr.), Hughes 54!TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Mtowanguuwe, 28 Nov. 1958 (young fr.), Semsei 2817!UGANDA Karamoja District Kaabong, 13 Nov. 1939 (sterile), A. S. Thomas 3348!UGANDA Kigezi District between Kisoro and Lake Mutanda, Oct. 1940 (fl.), Eggeling 4131!
Distribution (external)
Congo
Rwanda Republics
Ethiopia
Somali Republic (N.)
Notes
VARIATION. The gradation in leaf-form, from the simple palmately lobed juvenile leaves to the digitately compound leaves with petiolulate leaflets of mature branches, can be confusing. This variation in juvenile and mature foliage has not so far been observed in var. tomentosa, but the possibility of its occurrence should not be overlooked.

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