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Ludia mauritiana

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Identification
Ludia mauritiana J.F.Gmel. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Ludia mauritiana

Flora

Entry for LUDIA mauritiana Gmelin [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
LUDIA mauritiana Gmelin [family FLACOURTIACEAE], ,Syst. Nat., ed. 13, 1: 839 (1791); Sleumer in Adansonia, sér. 2, 12: 100 (1972). Type: Mauritius, Commerson (P, lecto.!, W, isolecto.!)
LUDIA sessiliflora Lam. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], Encycl. Méth. Bot. 3: 613 (1792); Oliv. in F.T.A. 1: 120 (1868); K.T.S.: 226 (1961). Type: Mauritius, Commerson (P, lecto. !, W, isolecto. !)
Scolopia minutiflora Sleumer [family FLACOURTIACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 12: 716 (1935). Type: Tanzania, Lindi District, Mlinguru, Schlieben 5756 (B, holo. †, BM, M, P, Z, iso. !)
Information
Shrub or small tree, rarely up to 15 m. tall, unarmed. Branchlets early greyish corticate and covered with numerous pale elongate lenticels. Leaf-blades rather variable in shape and size, oblong or oblanceolate, or obovate, or sometimes elliptic, apex usually shortly attenuate and obtuse, even rounded or a little emarginate, base cuneate, coriaceous, shining green above even when dry, entire though with a few distant impressed glands along the lower half of the edge, 3–9 cm. long, 2–4(–6) cm. broad; nerves 6–8 pairs, steeply ascending, not much different from the veins, the latter forming with the veinlets a dense network of elongate meshes which is markedly raised on both faces; petiole 2–8 mm. long. Flowers whitish-yellowish, 1–3 per axil; pedicel 0.5–1 mm. long at anthesis. Sepals ovate-suborbicular, densely pubescent outside and in the upper part of the inside, 2(–3) mm. long, reflexed at anthesis. Disk-glands 10–15, rather small. Stamens 40–60. Ovary glabrous. Fruit subovoid-globular, finely warty, reddish, 1–1.5 cm. across. Seeds 3–8(–12), ± 2 mm. across. Fig. 18.
Range
DISTR. K4, 7; T2, 3, 6, 8; Z
Altitude range
0–1750 m.
Distribution
KENYA Nairobi District Muthaiga, July 1927, Piemeisel & Kephart 37!KENYA Kwale District Jadini, Dec. 1959, Greenway 9627!KENYA Kilifi District Mida, Apr. 1938, Dale in F.D. 3864 !TANZANIA Masai/Mbulu District Lake Manyara National Park, Nov. 1962, Dingle 376!TANZANIA Lushoto District Sigi, July 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3488!TANZANIA Pangani District Boza, Nov. 1956, Tanner 3329!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Mazizini [Massazine], Mar. 1960, Faulkner 2503 !
Distribution (external)
Mozambique
Madagascar
Mauritius
Réunion
Seychelles
Aldabra

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