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Homalium calodendron

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Type of Homalium calodendron Gilg [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Isotype of Homalium calodendron Gilg [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Isolectotype of Homalium calodendron Gilg [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Isotype of Homalium calodendron Gilg ex Engl. [family SALICACEAE]
Homalium longistylum Mast. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Lectotype of Homalium calodendron Gilg [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
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Identification
Homalium calodendron Gilg [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Homalium longistylum Mast. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Sleumer H., 1970
Related name
  • Homalium calodendron
  • Homalium longistylum

Flora

Entry for HOMALIUM longistylum Mast. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
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, (1975) Author: H. Sleumer (Rijksherbarium, Leiden)
Names
HOMALIUM longistylum Mast. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], in F.T.A. 2: 497 (1871); Sleumer in Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 43: 270 (1973). Type: Gabon, Corisco I., Mann 1855 (K, holo.!)
HOMALIUM calodendron Gilg [family FLACOURTIACEAE], [in N.B.G.B. 3: 84 (1900), nom. nud. ] in E.J. 40: 491 (1908). Type: Tanzania, Derema, Scheffler 214 (B, holo. †, BM, BR, EA, K, P, Z, iso. !)
HOMALIUM mossambicense Paiva [family FLACOURTIACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 40: 266, t. 2, 3 (1966). Type: Mozambique, Niassa, Cabo Delgado, Mocimba da Praia–Palma road, Gomes e Sousa 4603 (COI, holo., EA, K, iso. !)
Information
Small to high tree; bark hard, greyish or whitish, rough. Branchlets glabrescent. Leaf-blade ovate- or oblong-elliptic, shortly, subabruptly and obtusely acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous except sometimes for hairs in the angles of the lateral veins with the midrib beneath (domatia), entire, undulate or coarsely crenate, 7–14 cm. long, 4–6.5 cm. wide; lateral veins 7–9 pairs, raised on both faces as is the rather dense reticulation; petiole 6–10 mm. long. Racemes solitary from the axils of the upper leaves, 10–25 cm. long, rather densely flowered, forming together a terminal pseudopanicle when the leaves are fallen in later stages; rhachis rather slender, puberulous as are the 2–3-fascicled whitish-greenish 5(–6)-merous flowers. Calyx-tube at anthesis 1.5–2 mm. long, narrowed downwards to a slender stipe 1–2 mm. long. Sepals subtriangular-lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm. long, a little accrescent. Petals oblong-spathulate, puberulous on both faces and ciliolate, (3–)6–8 mm. long in full anthesis, accrescent to 10–15 × 3–4 mm. in fruiting stage. Filaments glabrous. Glands hairy. Styles 5(–6), connate into a hairy column for 1.5–2 mm., free and glabrous for ± 1 mm. distally.
Range
DISTR. K7; T3 westwards to western and central Africa, southwards to Zambia and Mozambique
Altitude range
600–800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District Rabai, Nov. 1933, Joanna in C.M. 5949 !TANZANIA Lushoto District Derema, Jan. 1899, Scheffler 214!

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