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Name

Identification
Euclea urijiensis Hiern [family EBENACEAE ] Euclea schimperi (A.DC.) Dandy [family EBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by White,F.,
Related name
  • Euclea racemosa
  • Euclea schimperi
  • Euclea urijiensis

Flora

Entry for EUCLEA racemosa (A. DC.) F. White subsp. schimperi [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
EUCLEA racemosa (A. DC.) F. White subsp. schimperi [family EBENACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 50: 399 (1980) & in F.Z. 7(1): 297, t. 68A (1983) & F.A.C., Ebenaceae: 95, t. 18 (1987); Beentje, K.T.S.L.: 449 (1994). Type: Ethiopia near Adua, Schimper 159 (G, holo., K, iso.!)
Kellaua schimperi A. DC. [family EBENACEAE], in Ann. Sci Nat., sér. 2, 18: 209 (1842) & in DC., Prodr. 8: 290 (1844). Type as for Euclea racemosa subsp schimperi
Euclea kellau Hochst. [family EBENACEAE], in Flora 26: 83 (1843); Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 12: 103 (1873) & in F.T.A. 3: 514 (1877); P.O.A. C: 305 (1895); Z.A.E. 2: 522 (1914); F.P.N.A. 2: 45, t. 5 (1947); T.T.C.L.: 187 (1949), nom. illegit. Type as above
Euclea bilocularis Hiern [family EBENACEAE], in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 12: 102 (1873) & in F.T.A. 3: 514 (1877); Oliv. in Hook., Ic. Pl. 16, t. 1568 (1887); P.O.A. C: 305 (1895); T.T.C.L.: 187 (1949). Type: Zanzibar, Kirk (K, holo.!)
? Euclea karaguensis Gürke [family ], in P.O.A. C: 305 (1895); T.T.C.L.: 187 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Bukoba District, Kafuro, Stuhlmann 1797 & near Kassesse, Stuhlmann 1673 (both B, syn.† )
Euclea microcarpa Gürke [family EBENACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 305 (1895); T.T.C.L.: 187 (1949). Types: Tanzania, Moshi District, Mwika [Muika], Volkens 1796 (B, syn.†, K, isosyn.! (labelled 1796B)) & Kware [Quare] R., below Machame, Vollens 2037 (B, syn.† )
Euclea urijiensis Hiern [family EBENACEAE], in J.B. 33: 179 (1895); T.T.C.L.: 188 (1949); I.T.U., ed. 2: 107 (1952). Type: Tanzania, Bukoba District, Karagwe, Urigi [Uriji] valley, Scott Elliot 8180 (K, holo.!)
Euclea lanceolata [family EBENACEAE], sensu Gürke in P.O.A. C: 305 (1895), pro parte, non E. Mey.
Euclea latidens Stapf [family EBENACEAE], in J.L.S. 37: 525 (1906); I.T.U., ed. 2: 107 (1952). Type: Uganda, NW. Ankole, bank of Kazinga Channel [Lake Kafuru], Dawe 431 (K, holo.!, MAK (ENT), iso.)
? Euclea mildbraedii Gürke [family ], in Z.A.E. 2: 522 (1914); F.P.N.A. 2: 46 (1947). Type: Zaire, Ruwenzori, Beni, Mildbraed 2753 (B, holo.† )
Euclea schimperi (A. DC.) Dandy [family EBENACEAE], in F.P.S. 2: 370, fig. 137 (1952) & in K.B. 8: 108 (1953); K.T.S.: 177 (1961); F.F.N.R.: 333 (1962); Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 31 (1980); Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 3: 34, fig. 10/2 (1985)
Information
Slender tree or shrub 1-15 m. tall, sometimes many-stemmed, with regular crown; bark grey, fairly smooth, minutely fissured; slash pink. Leaf-blades obovate to oblanceolate, 2.8-13.5 cm. long, 0.8-4 cm. wide, distinctly widest above the middle, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, sometimes undulate at margin, coriaceous but not very thick. Corolla white. Ovary in female flower strigulose. Fruit red or blackish, with short adpressed scale-like white hairs but most of surface visible. Fig. 8/7.
Range
DISTR. U 1-4; K 1-7; T 1-6, 8; Z extending from Egypt and Arabia (Yemen and Oman) to Zimbabwe in the south, E. & S. Zaire in the west; also in the Comoro Is.
Altitude range
0-2100 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Napak Mt., 29 Jan. 1957, Dyson-Hudson 139!;KENYA Northern Frontier Province Mt. Kulal, 2 km. S. of Gatab, 16 Nov. 1978, Hepper & Jaeger 6858!;TANZANIA Musoma District Bolgonja [Bologonja] R., 29 Apr. 1961, Greenway 10118!;UGANDA Kigezi District Kamwezi, Feb. 1948, Purseglove 2593!;UGANDA Mengo District N. Mengo, 19 km. Wakyato to Ngoma, 1 Aug. 1956, Langdale-Brown 2284!KENYA Turkana District Murua Nysiga [Moruassigar], 14 Feb. 1965, Newbould 7051!;KENYA Masai District Ngong Hills, 11 Aug. 1951, Bally 8024!TANZANIA Arusha District Arusha National Park, Mt. Meru, E. slope, Nasula track, 2 Apr. 1968, Greenway & Kanuri 13288!;TANZANIA Tanga District Machui, 9 June 1957, Faulkner 1995!;TANZANIA Zanzibar I. , Chwaka, 5 Mar. 1968, Faulkner 3170!
Notes
I have retained F. White’ s circumscription arrived at after some 40 years of study of the genus throughout its range; it would be arrogant to disagree with such detailed study yet I can accept that some may care to keep up E. bilocularis at some level. Hiern originally separated it from E. kellau quite decisively by the couplet “ Leaves often ternate (sphalm. terete). Ovary 2-celled - E. bilocularis. Leaves subopposite. Ovary 4-celled - E. kellau ”. Gillett (12950 from K 1, Moyale) states corolla cream, slightly pinkish in male and smaller and greenish in the female. [B.V.]

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