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Macaranga saccifera

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Name

Identification
Macaranga saccifera Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Macaranga saccifera Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by HBG-formal name entry, 2010
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Flora

Entry for MACARANGA saccifera Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
MACARANGA saccifera Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 93, t. 1. —De Wild. Miss. É. Laurent, 130, tt. 39–41; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, ii. 57; Reliq. Dewevr. ii. 212; De Wild. Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, ii. 283, and Comp. Kasai, 330; Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, 246; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 496.
Information
A shrub or tree; branches armed with spines, densely tawny-pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, rounded-ovate, deeply 3-lobed, lobes obovate-oblong or triangular, acute, margin repand or toothed, base narrowly deep-cordate, 8–10 in. long, nearly as wide, subcoriaceous, gland-dotted beneath, with a pair of marginal glandular processes at the junction with the petiole; petiole 6 in. long; stipules converted into large coriaceous acute flask-shaped sacs. Male flowers in axillary panicles; bracts ovate, acute, subtending several flowers; buds globose. Female flowers unknown.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Libreville, Klaine, 3080!Congo Lower Guinea Cataract district; between Matadi and Leopoldville, Laurent!Congo South Central Madibi, on the River Kwilu, Sapin; Equatorial district; near Eala, Pynaert, 717, 1047, Laurent, 1133, Bokakata, Dewèvre; Bangala district; near Bumba, Seret, 35; Mjolo, Laurent, 258; Seret; Aruwimi; Patalongo (Yambuya) Laurent. Kasai; Kondue, Laurent; Batempe, Laurent; between Lusambo and the Lomami, Laurent; Mukenge, Pogge, 1335! 1363!

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