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Hernandia peltata

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Identification
Hernandia nymphaeifolia (C.Presl) Kubitzki [family HERNANDIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Sumithraarachchi, D.B., Hernandia peltata Meisn. [family HERNANDIACEAE ] Hernandia ovigera L. [family HERNANDIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Hernandia stenura
  • Hernandia sonora
  • Hernandia peltata
  • Hernandia nymphaeifolia
  • Hernandia ovigera

Flora

Entry for HERNANDIA peltata Meisn. [family HERNANDIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 188, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
HERNANDIA peltata Meisn. [family HERNANDIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. i. 263. —Seem. Fl. Vitien. 204, t. 52; Benth. Fl. Austr. v. 314; Beddome, Fl. Sylv. t. 300; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 293; Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burma, ii. 309; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 188; Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceylon, iii. 456; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 183; Greshoff, Nutt. Ind. Pl. t. 21; Brandis, Indian Trees, 542; Hattori in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, xxiii. x. 13.
HERNANDIA sonora Linn. [family HERNANDIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 981 (as to the Ceylon plant only); Wight, Ic. t. 1855.
Information
A tree, 40–50 ft. high with a clear trunk of 20–25 ft., 5–12 ft. in circumference; head wide-spreading; wood soft, light, grey. Branchlets stout, glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate, peltate, rounded-truncate, retuse or cordate at the base, shortly acuminate and subobtuse at the apex, more rarely obtuse or rounded, 4 1/2–12 in. long, 3–9 in. broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous, digitately 7-nerved at the insertion of the petiole, remaining nerves 3–4 on each side of the midrib; petiole 2 1/2–8 in. long. Corymbs 4–12 long including the peduncle, which is 2 1/2–7 in. long. Flowers whitish. Perianth-segments of male flower about 2 lin. long. Stamens monadelphous for 1/2 lin. below; anthers 3/4 lin. long; free part of filament 3/4 lin. long, pubescent. Fruit ellipsoid, with a broad rounded umbo, 8-ribbed, 1 1/4 in. long; cupule subglobose, about 1 1/2 in. in diam.
Range
A sea-coast tree, found also in the Mascarene Islands, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, N. Australia, Polynesia, and the Luchu and Bonin Islands.
Distribution
Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. on the eastern, stony part of the island, Stuhlmann, ser. i. 783.
Notes
The fruits are distributed by ocean currents. In certain parts of its area it also occurs inland.

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