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Magnistipula butayei

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Identification
Hirtella sapinii Not on sheet. [family CHRYSOBALANACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Magnistipula butayei Not on sheet. [family CHRYSOBALANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Magnistipula butayei
  • Parinari sargosii
  • Magnistipula youngii
  • Hirtella sapinii
  • Magnistipula bangweolensis
  • Parinari tisserantii
  • Hirtella montana
  • Hirtella katangensis
  • Magnistipula montana
  • Parinari bangweolensis
  • Hirtella bangweolensis

Flora

Entry for MAGNISTIPULA butayei De Wild. [family CHRYSOBALANACEAE]
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, (1960) Author: R. A. GRAHAM
Names
MAGNISTIPULA butayei De Wild. [family CHRYSOBALANACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Congo Belg., Sér. 5, 2: 255 (1908). Type: Belgian Congo, basin of R. Nsele, Gillet in Butaye (BR, holo.)
Hirtella butayei (De Wild.) Brenan [family CHRYSOBALANACEAE], in Trop. Woods No. 86: 4 (1946); F. C. B. 3: 41 (1952)
Information
An evergreen tree up to 30 m. tall, with a fairly smooth grey bark and a long-branched columnar crown. Young branches velutinous with rusty-brown hairs, later glabrescent and grey. Leaves oblong-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 8.5–15.5 × 3.2 × 5.0 cm., attenuate to each end, or rounded to cordate at the base, acutely acuminate, shining on both faces, glabrous except for the midrib and primary nerves above, and glabrous beneath or with rather long rusty hairs on the very prominent midrib and primary nerves. Inflorescence paniculate, axillary (? also terminal), the branches ascending or arising ± at right angles. Flowers white, ± 7 mm. long, Calyx-tube 4 mm. long; lobes triangular, ± acute. Filaments 3–4 mm. long, connate towards the base; staminodes 1.5–1 × 75 mm. long but variable. Ovary sessile or nearly so, inserted near the rim of the receptacle.

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