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Lophostemon confertus

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Name

Identification
Tristania conferta R.Br. [family MYRTACEAE ] (stored under name); Lophostemon confertus (R.Br.) Peter G.Wilson & J.T.Waterh. [family MYRTACEAE ]
Related name
  • Tristania depressa
  • Tristania conferta
  • Lophostemon confertus

Flora

Entry for Lophostemon confertus (R. Br.) P.G. Wilson & J.T. Waterhouse [family MYRTACEAE]
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, (2001) Author: B Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
Lophostemon confertus (R. Br.) P.G. Wilson & J.T. Waterhouse [family MYRTACEAE]
Tristania conferta R. Br. [family ], by which name it is much better known
Information
Tree 5–30 m tall, 1.3 m girth, with longitudinally furrowed stringy bark. Leaves in whorls of 4–5, elliptic to lanceolate, 7–17 cm long, 2–6.5 cm wide, acute to acuminate at apex. Flowers scented, in few-flowered axillary cymes. Calyx long white-hairy; lobes narrow and acute. Petals white. Stamens in 5 bundles with linear claws as long as petals. Fruit hemispherical to cup-shaped, 7–10 mm long, 9–12 mm wide. Fig. 3, p. 12.
Notes
Lophostemon confertus ( R. Br .) P.G. Wilson & J.T. Waterhouse has been widely grown in East Africa and is often called Brisbane box (Uganda. Mengo District: Entebbe Botanic Gardens, fide Dale. Kenya. Nairobi, Arboretum, 15 Dec. 1952, Greenway 8745; Kiambu District: Muguga?, Pudden 11; Central Kavirondo District: Maseno, 3 Oct. 1952, Abraham 9; Tanzania. Bukoba District: Dec. 1967, Kanywa 31; Lushoto District: Amani, Drackensberg Plantation 6, 17 July 1930, Greenway 2258 & Lushoto Arboretum, 12 Aug. 1970, Ngoundai 438; Njombe District: Forest Dept. trial plot 2, Jan. 1962, Procter 1988, also Nairobi, Nyeri and Kaptagat) (T.T.C.L.: 380 (1949); Dale, Introd. Trees Uganda: 69 (1953); Jex-Blake, Gard. E. Afr. ed. 4: 244 (1957)).

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