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Harrisonia abyssinica

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Clausena impunctata Welw. ex Hiern [family RUTACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Harrisonia abyssinica Oliv. [family SIMAROUBACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Exell, A. W. & Mendonça, F. A.,
Related name
  • `occidentalis
  • Harrisonia occidentalis
  • Zanthoxylum pterota
  • Harrisonia abyssinica
  • Clausena impuctata
  • Clausena impunctata
  • Zanthoxylum guineense
Common name
  • pingu (B&D) pinku (B&D) (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • béningo (K&B) pingu (K&B) (IVORY COAST, AKAN-BRONG), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • pama-bau (NWT) pama-bunde (pl. -εi) (NWT; S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • baingu (auctt.) kuengu (K&B) pingu (K&B) (IVORY COAST, ANYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • tariani (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • mama kundu (FCD; S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for HARRISONIA abyssinica Oliv. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
HARRISONIA abyssinica Oliv. [family ], (1868). Fig. 112.
HARRISONIA abyssinica Fiori var. somalensis [family ], in Result. Sci. Miss. Stefanini-Paoli: 39 (1916);. type: S2, between “Mahaddei Uen” and “Burbisciaaro”, Paoli 1301 (FT holo.).
Information
Shrub or small tree, often scandent and several meters long; trunk and larger branches often bearing spines on short wart-like outgrowths, branchlets unarmed or armed with hooked spines in pairs at base of petiole, glabrous to pubescent. Leaves 5–15-foliolate, 2.5–20 cm long, glabrous to pubescent; petiole and rhachis with wings 0.1–3 mm wide; leaflets sessile or almost so, broadly obovate to almost orbicular, 0.5–9 x 0.3–4 cm, rounded to acute at the apex, cuneate to almost rounded and usually asymmetric at the base, entire to crenate-serrate at least in upper half. Flowers cream, in axillary and terminal pubescent to subglabrous 1.5–14 cm long paniculate inflorescences. Petals valvate, ovate to lanceolate, 2–5.5 x 1–2.5 mm, sometimes hairy outside. Ovary 4–5(–6)-lobed. Berry 4–6-lobed, depressed-globose, 4–9 mm in diam., red to black when ripe, glabrous. Seeds 3.5–5 x 2.5–3 mm, smooth.
Range
S2, 3 widespread in tropical Africa.
Altitude range
35–120 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Maunder 23; Thulin 6337; Hemming & Deshmukh JESS 86/69.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Notes
Sabciin, sabiin (Som.). The Somali plants generally have glabrous or subglabrous leaves, branchlets and inflorescences.

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