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Haplocoelum inoploeum

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Name

Identification
Haplocoelum inoploeum Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Filicium somalense Chiov. [family SAPINDACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Haplocoelum wakefieldii
  • Filicium somalense
  • Unrecorded unrecorded
  • Haplocoelum inoploeum
  • Pistaciopsis wakefieldii
  • Haplocoelum trigonocarpum

Flora

Entry for HAPLOCOELUM inoploeum Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by I. Friis & K. Vollesen [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
HAPLOCOELUM inoploeum Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], (1878). Fig. 163 A–C.
Haplocoelum trigonocarpum Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], (1890).
Filicium somalense Chiov. [family SAPINDACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, “Bur Gao”, Senni 110 (FT holo.).
Information
Shrub or tree to 10(–12) m high, usually with contorted trunks; bark grey, fissured in older trees. Leaves including petiole 6–10 cm long, usually on dwarf shoots, rhachis narrowly winged; leaflets in 1 or 2 pairs, elliptic, the terminal pair usually much larger than the basal pair, 3–6.5(–8) x 1.5–2.5(–3.5) cm, glabrous, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, asymmetrically cuneate at the base. Flowers often produced before the leaves, in dense clusters, greenish cream; sepals 1.5–2 mm long. Fruit yellow to orange red, at first triangular in cross-section, ultimately ellipsoid, 10–20 mm long. Seed c. 10 x 6 mm.
Range
S3
Altitude range
40–80 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Friis, Vollesen & Hassan 4971; Gillett & al. 25162; Hemming SRS 580/1.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania

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