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Ficalhoa laurifolia

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Name

Identification
Ficalhoa laurifolia Hiern [family THEACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Ficalhoa laurifolia

Flora

Entry for FICALHOA laurifolia Hiern [family THEACEAE]
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, (1962) Author: B. Verdcourt (East African Herbarium)
Names
FICALHOA laurifolia Hiern [family THEACEAE], in J.B. 36 : 329, t. 390 (1898) and in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1 : 633 (1898) ; V.E. 1 (2) : 670, f. 578 (1910) ; Z.A.E. 2 : 509 (1913) ; F.P.N.A. 2 : 16 (1947) ; T.T.C.L. 193 (1949) ; I.T.U., ed. 2, 110 (1952) ; Robson in Fl. Zamb. 1 : 405 (1961). Types : Angola, Huila, near Lopollo, Welwitsch 4808 (BM, syn.!, K, isosyn.!) & between Mumpulla and Nene, Welwitsch 4809 (BM, syn. !)
Information
Evergreen tree (2–)6–24(–36) m. tall, much branched, with rough fissured bark and a copious white latex. Branches at first sparsely pilose, eventually glabrous or in some specimens densely pilose. Leaves somewhat leathery, oblong or lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, (5–)7–12.4 cm. long and (l.8–)2–4.3 cm. wide, with margins bluntly serrulate, glabrous or sparsely pilose ; petiole 3–9 mm. long. Flowers white, yellowish or greenish, in solitary or paired cymes ; peduncle 2–6 mm. long, pubescent or pilose ; pedicels short, pubescent. Sepals rounded, sparsely to densely pubescent, about 1 mm. long. Petals oblong, rounded 3 mm. long. Ovary densely adpressed-pilose ; styles pilose at the base. Capsule about 3 mm. in diameter, with widely spreading valves. Seeds about 0.5 mm. long. Fig. 3, p. 7.
Range
DISTR. U2 ; T3, 4, 6–8
Altitude range
1350–2400 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Mpanda District Kungwe Mt., Selimweguru, 24 July 1959, Newbould & Harley 4630TANGANYIKA Njombe, Aug. 1933, Greenway 3508 !TANGANYIKA Songea District Matengo Hills, Luwiri-Kitesa Forest, 25 Oct. 1956, Semsei 2548 !UGANDA Toro District Bwamba Pass, July 1940, Eggeling 4029 !UGANDA Kigezi District Impenetrable Forest, Sept. 1936, Eggeling 3259 !
Distribution (external)
; Congo Republic
Ruanda-Urundi
Nyasaland
Northern Rhodesia
Angola
Notes
Some Tanganyika material (e.g. Carmichael 98 from Iringa District, Msombe Hill) has very pilose branches and sepals.

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