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Dodonaea viscosa

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Identification
Isotype of Dodonaea viscosa Jacq. [family SAPINDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by W.L.Wagner, 1997
Related name
  • Dodonaea unrecorded
  • Dodonaea denticulata
  • Dodonaea illita
  • Dodonaea aspleniifolia
  • Dodonaea dioica
  • Dodonaea indet.
  • Dodonaea ptarmicifolia
  • Dodonaea cuneata
  • Dodonaea salicifolia
  • Dodonaea conferta
  • Dodonaea sandwicensis
  • Dodonaea candollei
  • Dodonaea attenuata
  • Dodonaea latifolia
  • Dodonaea eriocarpa
  • Dodonaea angustifolia
  • Dodonaea arborescens
  • Dodonaea viscosa
  • Dodonaea spatulata

Flora

Entry for Dodonaea viscosa Jacq. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 494, (1966) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Ptelea viscosa L. [family SAPINDACEAE], Sp. Pl. 1: 118 (1753). Type from India.
Dodonaea viscosa Jacq. [family SAPINDACEAE], Enum. Syst. Pl. Ins. Carib.: 19 (1760). — Sond. in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 242 (1860). — Bak. in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 433 (1868). — Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr.: 33 (1909). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5, 4: 406 (1916) excl. specim. Monro 576. — Radlk. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 2, 7: 1363 (1933). — Burtt Davy & Hoyle, N.C.L.: 70 (1936). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 557 (1949); in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8, 3: 240 (1953). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 2, 1: 91 (1954). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 724 (1958). — Hauman, F.C.B. 9: 382, t. 39 (1960). — Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs: 511, t. 30 (1961). — White, F.F.N.R.: 224 (1962). TAB. 117. Type from Jamaica.
Information
Small tree up to 10 m. tall or shrub; branchlets angular, glabrous, resinous. Leaves simple, spirally arranged; petiole up to 6 mm. long, glabrous; lamina up to 10 × 3 cm., narrowly elliptic, glabrous, resinous, apex acute and usually acuminate, margin entire, base narrowly cuneate and decurrent into the petiole; lateral nerves numerous (usually up to c. 20 pairs). Inflorescence usually c. 2 cm. long, terminal or subterminal, somewhat corymbose; peduncle short (rarely more than 5 mm. long). Flowers greenish-yellow (often bisexual fide Radlkofer); pedicels up to 5 mm. long (accrescent to 12 mm. long in fruit), filiform, glabrous. Stamens usually 6; anthers 3 mm. long. Ovary (2)3(4)-locular; style 4–6 mm. long, (2)3(4)-lobed. Fruit up to 2 × 2 cm., 2–3(4)-locular, subcircular in outline, emarginate at apex and base, with 2–3 glabrous membranous wings c. 4–6 mm. broad, very shortly stipitate. Seed black, 3 × 2 mm., lenticular, glabrous.
Habitat
usually on edges of montane forest
Range
Pantropical
Altitude range
up to c. 1600 m. but also at lower altitudes.
1600
0
inferred only top
Distribution
Mozambique M “Delagoa Bay”, fl. & fr. 1822, Forbes 97 (P).Mozambique GI Vila João Belo, Chipenhe, fl. 1.iv.1919, Barbosa & Lemos 8434 (K; LMJ; PRE).Mozambique MS Cheringoma, fl. 22.vii.1947, Simão 1463 (LM; SRGH).Mozambique T between Vila Mousinho and Zóbuè, fl. & fr., 19.vii.1949, Barbosa & Carvalho 3679 (LMJ; K).Mozambique Z between Milange and Molumbo, fr. 13.ix.1949, Barbosa & Carvalho 4063 (LMJ; K).Malawi S Mt. Mlanje, Tuchi Valley, fr. 16.vii.1956, Jackson 1952 (FHO; K).Malawi C Fort Manning, 1525 m., fl. & fr. 6.viii.1936, Burtt 6166(BM; K).Zimbabwe E Chipinga Distr., between Chipinga and Melsetter, fr. 19.viii.1961, Lord Methuen 107 (K; PRE).Zimbabwe C Salisbury Distr., near Umwindsi R., fl. 17.vi.1933, Pardy 95/33 (FHO).Zimbabwe W Matobo Distr., 1465 m., fr., x.1957. Miller 4569 (K; SRGH).Zambia S Livingstone, fl. 10.ix.1955, Gilges 429 (COI; K; PRE).Zambia E Lundazi Distr., Kagampande, fr. 3.v.1952, White 2571 (FHO; K).Zambia C Lusaka Distr., Mt. Makulu, fl. 15.v.1956, Angus 1289 (BM; FHO; K; PRE).Zambia W Ndola Distr., Kamfinsa, fl. 11.vi.1956, Holmes 19 (FHO).Mozambique N Mocímboa da Praia, fr. 12.ix.1948, Andrada 1346 (LMJ).Malawi N Rumpi Distr., Misuku Distr., fr. viii.1954, Chapman 219 (FHO).Zimbabwe N Miami, fr. 20.vii.1930, Goldberg in Moss 19040 (BM).Zambia N Abercorn Distr., fl. & fr. ii.1954, Nash 52 (BM).Zimbabwe S Fort Victoria Distr., Rungwe R., viii.1932, Cuthbertson in GHS 6066 (BM; SRGH).
Notes
Ptelea viscosa L. and Dodonaea viscosa Jacq. are nomenclaturally independent as they are based on different types. Jacquin was perhaps unaware that Linnaeus had placed the species (already well known) in Ptelea.A somewhat complicated system of dividing this widespread species into infra-specific taxa (varieties, forms and subforms) was elaborated by Radlkofer (op. cit.: 1368 et seq.) The only specimen in that work cited from our area appears under “specimina quoad formam indeterminata”. Brenan (loc. cit. 1953) says that the Brass specimens from Nyasaland are referable to var. vulgaris forma burmanniana (DC.) Radlk. as defined by Radlkofer.

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