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Maprounea africana

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Name

Identification
Maprounea membranacea Pax & K. Hoffmann [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by 184277, 1912 Maprounea membranacea Pax & K. Hoffmann [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by H.-J. Esser, 2000 Maprounea africana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Maprounea gracilis
  • Maprounea membranacea
  • Margaritaria discoidea
  • Maprounea africana
  • Phyllanthus discoideus
  • Excoecaria africana
  • Maprounea obtusa

Flora

Entry for MAPROUNEA africana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
MAPROUNEA africana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1191, partly and as to fruit only;—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 985, partly; De Wild. Miss. É. Laurent. 141, and Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, ii. 289, partly; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 499, partly; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xl. 204; Prain in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 1004; De Wild. Comp. Kasai, 342.
MAPROUNEA obtusa Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 116, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 241.
MAPROUNEA vaccinioides Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 116.
MAPROUNEA africana Pax ex Durand & De Wild. var. obtusa [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 107, partly; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 500, partly.
MAPROUNEA africana Pax & K. Hoffm. var. benguelensis [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb. Hippoman. 180.
Excœcaria magenjensis Sim [family ], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 104, t. 100 A.
Information
a tree, 15–30 ft. high, everywhere glabrous; ultimate twigs passing into the inflorescence, up to 1/2 in. long; leaves short-petioled, papery and at length somewhat coriaceous, oblong or ovate-oblong, bluntly acute or acuminate, sometimes rounded cuspidate or rounded obtuse, base rounded, margin entire, 1 1/2–2 1/4 in. long, 3/4–1 1/4 in. wide, dark shining green above, pale green beneath, distinctly reticulate; petiole 1/3– 2/3 in. long, slender; stipules small, triangular; spikes usually 2-sexual, male portion oblong or ovoid, rarely subglobose, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, dense-flowered; female flowers 1–3, basal, long-pedicelled; pedicels in fruit up to 1 1/4 in. long; male bracts narrow-lanceolate, acuminate from a broad base, each 3-flowered and each with two 2–3-partite basal glands; bracts and flowers yellowish; male calyx irregularly 2–3-lobed; stamens 2–3, exserted; ovary oblong; capsule brown, slightly 3-sulcate, 1/3– 2/5 in. across; seeds black, subglobose, smooth, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, caruncle under 1/4 the size of body of seed. null
Range
Also widely spread in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Delagoa Bay; Maputa, Sim

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