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Gomphia vogelii

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Identification
Gomphia vogelii Hook.f. [family OCHNACEAE ] Ouratea vogelii (Hook.f.) Engl. ex Gilg [family OCHNACEAE ] Campylospermum vogelii (Hook.f.) Farron [family OCHNACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Gomphia vogelii
  • Ouratea vogelii
  • Campylospermum vogelii

Flora

Entry for Gomphia vogelii Hook. f. [family OCHNACEAE]
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, (2005) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
Gomphia vogelii Hook. f. [family OCHNACEAE], Nig. Fl.: 272 (1849); Oliv. in F.T.A. 1: 321 (1868) pro parte. Type: Liberia, Grand Bassa, Vogel 53 (K!, holo.)
Ouratea vogelii (Hook. f.) Gilg [family OCHNACEAE], in E & P. Pf. 3 (6): 141 (1893) & in E.J. 33: 248 (1903); F.W.T.A. 1: 229 (1954)
Ouratea bukobensis Gilg [family OCHNACEAE], in E.J. 33: 271 (1903); Z.A.E. 2: 559 (1913); T.T.C.L.: 385 (1949) pro parte; I.T.U. ed. 2: 281 (1951) pro parte. Type: Tanzania, Bukoba District: near Bukoba on Lake Victoria, Stuhlmann 978, 1023, 1073, 1467, 1521, 3212, 3721, 3990a, 3991, 4063 (all B†, syn.)
Campylospermum bukobense (Gilg) Farron [family OCHNACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 35: 393 (1965) & in F.C.B. Ochnaceae: 50 (1967) excl. Ouratea floribunda De Wild.
Campylospermum vogelii (Hook. f.) Farron [family OCHNACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 35: 404 (1965)
Information
Shrub or small tree 1.5–12 m tall. Leaves fairly thin to distinctly subcoriaceous, mostly oblong or oblong-elliptic, less often elliptic-oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 3.5–15.5 cm long, 1–6.4 cm wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowly cuneate at the base, serrate or often almost entire; lateral veins ± 9, ascending, in depressions above but actual vein prominent, more prominent beneath; secondary veins numerous, ± parallel and at right-angles to midrib and tertiary reticulate venation between; petiole ± 4(–6) mm long; stipules 3 mm long, striate, aristate, soon deciduous. Inflorescences subterminal, 4–12 cm long, shorter or sometimes much shorter than subtending leaf; cymes 1–2(–6)-flowered; peduncle ± 1 cm long; pedicels 5–6 mm long, enlarging to 13 mm in fruit. Sepals 6–8 mm long, 2.5–3 mm wide. Petals bright yellow, 5–8 mm long, 2.5–4 mm wide. Drupelets black, ellipsoid, 7 mm long, 5 mm wide.
Range
DISTR. U 2, 4; T 1
Altitude range
1100–1200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Bukoba District Rubare Forest Reserve, Oct. 1957, Procter 711! and same locality, Nov. 1958, Procter 1057! & Ruasina Forest [Rwasina], Nov. 1935, Wigg 317! & Kaigi, May 1935, Gillman 275!UGANDA Masaka District Sese Is., Buire, June 1925, Maitland 796! & Nkose I., 21 Jan. 1956, Dawkins 855! & Malabigambo Forest, 64 km SSW of Katera, 2 Oct. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4544!
Distribution (external)
W Africa
Congo (Kinshasa)
Notes
Material referred to G. bukobensis in East Africa during the past century can be more or less sorted into two taxa. One has thin narrowly elliptic-lanceolate leaves with closer more curved usually spinulose teeth. Much of this has been determined as Ouratea floribunda De Wild. and matches the type of that and many specimens of it are determined as Campylospermum bukobense by Farron. The other has more coriaceous more oblong, often wider leaves with fewer less spinulose teeth or sometimes partly entire and at least one specimen of this has been annotated as C. vogelii var. poggei (Engl.) Farron by Farron. I have not seen any type material of Ouratea bukobensis but many specimens are available from the Bukoba area; none of these at Kew have been annotated by Farron but I believe they belong to the second taxon. Robson has annotated Bukoba material as Ouratea hiernii (Tiegh.) Exell in which he includes O. bukobensis and O. poggei (Engl.) Gilg but excludes O. floribunda De Wild (see F.Z. 2: 256–7 (1963)) thus agreeing with my treatment. It must be admitted that the differences are small and specimens often difficult to place, the serration being particularly variable. Ouratea bukobensis and O. floribunda have been considered synonymous by most workers and Farron has continued this but he annotated a specimen of true bukobensis from Uganda as vogelii. I am keeping up two species and hope that some really informative field work will settle the problem.Farron records Campylospermum vogelii var. poggei from Sudan, Congo (Kinshasa), Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Angola; he also gives the maximum height attained as 25 m and trunk 45 cm in diameter. Nothing of this size has been found in East Africa. Nowhere does he say how the variety differs from the species.

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