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Flueggea fagifolia

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Name

Identification
Flueggea fagifolia Pax [family PHYLLANTHACEAE ] Verified by J. Hutchinson, Margaritaria discoidea (Baill.) G.L.Webster [family PHYLLANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Margaritaria discoidea
  • Phyllanthus discoideus
  • Flueggea fagifolia
  • Margaritaria discodea

Flora

Entry for Margaritaria discoidea var. fagifolia Pax Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Margaritaria discoidea var. fagifolia Pax Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 36: 220 (1981); in F.T.E.A., Euphorb. 1: 66 (1987). Type from Tanzania.
Flueggea fagifolia Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas C: 236 (1895). —Hutchinson in F.T.A. 6, 1: 737 (1912). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 215 (1949). Type as above.
Margaritaria discoidea subsp. discoidea [family EUPHORBIACEAE], —G.L. Webster in J. Arnold Arbor. 60: 416 (1979), pro min. parte.
Margaritaria discoidea subsp. nitida Pax G.L. Webster [family EUPHORBIACEAE], J. Arnold Arbor. 60: 418 (1979), pro min. parte.
Information
Tall, forest canopy tree up to 30 m high; petioles adaxially grooved and/or narrowly winged, glabrous or sparingly pubescent; stipules up to 1.3 cm long, acute, glabrous; leaf blades elliptic-lanceolate, usually acutely acuminate; female pedicels not more than 1 cm long; stylar column up to 2 mm high, style arms spreading or reflexed; fruit subglobose to shallowly 3-lobed.
Habitat
In submontane mixed evergreen forest and dense rainforest
Range
Guinea-Bissau eastwards to Ethiopia and south to Angola and South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
Altitude range
1100–1500 m.
1500
1100
Distribution
Mozambique MS Mt. Gorongosa, st. xi.1971, Tinley 2244 (LISC; MO; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique N 40 km Malema (Entre Rios)–Ribáuè, Serra Murripa, fr. 15.xii.1967, Torre & Correia 16532 (LISC).Malawi S Zomba, Thondwe, Mpita Tea Estate, st. 3.v.1982, Chapman & Tawakali 6155 (BR; FHO; K; MAL).

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