Compilation
Diospyros vaughaniae
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Name
Identification
Diospyros vaughaniae Dunkley [family EBENACEAE ] Verified by Dunkley, H.L., Diospyros consolatae Chiov. [family EBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt, B.,
Related name
- Diospyros vaughaniae
- Diospyros consolatae
Flora
Entry for DIOSPYROS consolatae Chiov. [family EBENACEAE]
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, (1996) Author: F. White and B. Verdcourt
Names
DIOSPYROS consolatae Chiov. [family EBENACEAE], Racc. Bot. Miss. Consol. Kenya: 77 (Mar. 1935); Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 31 (1980); F. White in F.Z. 7(1): 257 (1983) & in B.J.B.B. 58: 353, fig. 11/1-10 (1988); Beentje, K.T.S.L.: 446 (1994). Type: Kenya, Fort Hall District, Tuso [Tusu], Balbo 493 (TOM, holo.!, FHO, photo.!)
DIOSPYROS vaughaniae Dunkley [family EBENACEAE], in K.B. 1935: 262 (Sept. 1935); T.T.C.L.: 186 (1949). Type: Pemba, Pembe I., Vaughan 699 (K, holo.!, EA, iso.!)
DIOSPYROS bussei [family EBENACEAE], sensu K.T.S.: 173 (1961), non Gürke
Information
Much and stiffly branched erect evergreen shrub or small bushy tree 1.5-7(-9) m. tall, with fairly dense irregular crown; sometimes ± scandent inT8; bark grey to black, smooth, scaly or rough and longitudinally furrowed; heartwood said to be black. Leaves drying pale brown or yellowish brown, often wilted on the tree or wilting soon after picking and consequently in herbarium specimens usually revolute or undulate at the margin, elliptic or obovate, 2.5-10.3 cm. long, 1.2-6 cm. wide, mostly subacute to subacuminate at the apex but sometimes broadly rounded or emarginate, cuneate to rounded at the base, glossy above, glabrous beneath; lateral nerves in 5-9(-10) pairs, indistinct; petiole 3-4 mm. long. Male flowers 1-3 together in leaf-axils and axils of fallen leaves; pedicels 1-3 mm. long; calyx 4 mm. long, minutely puberulous outside; corolla white, campanulate, ± 8 mm. long; corolla-tube 4 mm. long and wide; corolla-lobes 4, semiorbicular, 4 mm. long, 5 mm. wide; stamens ± 20-30, 3 mm. long, glabrous; filaments cream, 0.5 mm. long; anthers paleyellow, lanceolate, 2 mm. long. Female flowers solitary or in pairs in leaf-axils and in axils of fallen leaves, subsessile; calyx 7 mm. long, minutely puberulous outside; calyx-tube cup-shaped, 4 mm. long; calyx-lobes 4(-6), reduplicate and alternating with slightly decurrent sinuses; corolla white, becoming creamy white, eventually turning brown, falling at a touch when open, funnel-shaped, 8 mm. long, minutely puberulous outside; corolla-tube 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide below, expanded above; corolla-lobes 4(-6), ± round, 4 mm. long and wide; staminodes ± 10-15, 3 mm. long, glabrous, attached to the corolla-tube and blocking the throat; ovary 2 mm. long and wide, minutely puberulous; styles 3-4, 3 mm. long; locules 6-8. Fruit greenish yellow or yellow, globose, 1.5 cm. diameter, glabrous, slightly to very sticky and glossy, with fruiting calyx up to 1.2 cm. long, frilled and held at right-angles to the fruit, and distinctly to indistinctly lobed, the lobes up to 1.3 cm. wide. Seeds 6-8 or fewer by abortion, very dark brown, 1.2 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, 4 mm. thick. Fig. 2/4.
Range
DISTR. K 4, 6, 7; T 3, 6, 8; Z; P;
Altitude range
0-950(-1000) m.
Distribution
KENYA Machakos District Kibwezi Hill, 13 Nov. 1979, Gatheri et al. 79/155!;TANZANIA Lushoto District 1.5 km. E. of Mashewa, 29 June 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3067!;KENYA Kwale District Samburu at Manjewa Station turn-off, 9 Apr. 1978, Verdcourt 5266!;KENYA Kilifi District 8 km. NE. of Kilifi at edge of Sokoke Forest, 1 Feb. 1961, Greenway 9815!TANZANIA Kilosa District Berega, 9 Dec. 1935, B.D. Burtt 5382!;TANZANIA Uzaramo District 19 km. N. of Dar es Salaam, near cement factory, Jan. 1965, Procter 2871!;TANZANIA Zanzibar I., near Chukwani, 7 Apr. 1961, Faulkner 2809!
Distribution (external)
Somalia
Mozambique
Notes
The flowers are said to be very fragrant by MacNaughton.