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Myristica sebifera

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Isotype of Myristica sebifera A.DC. [family MYRISTICACEAE ] Verified by W.A.Rodrigues, Virola sebifera Aubl. [family MYRISTICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by W.A.Rodrigues,
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Flora

Entry for PYCNANTHUS angolensis (Welw.) Warb. [family MYRISTICACEAE]
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, (1997) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Names
PYCNANTHUS angolensis (Welw.) Warb. [family MYRISTICACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 1: 100 (1895); Exell, Cat. Vasc. Pl. S. Tomé: 278 (1944); T.T.C.L.: 367 (1949); G.C.C. Gilbert & Troupin in F.C.B. 2: 391 (1951); I.T.U., ed. 2: 267 (1952); Gossw. in Agro. Angol. 7: 397 (1953); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 61 (1954), excl. fig. 15; Fouilloy in Fl. Gabon 10: 87, t. 22 (1965) & in Fl. Cameroun 18: 91, t. 27 (1974); Hamilton, Field Guide Uganda For. Trees: 142, fig. 202 (1981). Lectotype, labelled by ?Exell at BM: Angola, Golungo Alto, Welwitsch 781 (BM, lecto.!, BM!, K! (as 581), LISC, LISU, P!, isolecto.)
Myristica sebifera [family MYRISTICACEAE], [sensu Benth. in Hook, Niger Fl.: 498 (1849), non Sw.]
Myristica sp. [family MYRISTICACEAE], sensu Welw. in Ann. Conselho Ultram. 1858: 554 (1859)
Myristica angolensis Welw. [family MYRISTICACEAE], Syn. Expl. Mad. Drog. Med.: 51 (1862); Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 913 (1900)
Myristica kombo Baill. [family MYRISTICACEAE], in Adansonia 9: 79 (1868). Type: Gabon, Duparquet 120 (P, lecto.!)
Pycnanthus microcephalus [family MYRISTICACEAE], [sensu Warb. in Ber. Pharm. Ges. Berl. 1892: 222 (1892), pro parte?, nom. invalid., non (Benth.) Warb. – see note]
Pycnanthus kombo (Baill.) Warb. [family MYRISTICACEAE], in Nova Acta Acad. Leop.-Carol. 68: 252, t. 2, 10 (1897), pro parte, & Die Muskatnuss: 374, 385, t. 4/9 (1897); Stapf in F.T.A. 6(1): 158 (1909); F.W.T.A. 1: 64, excl. fig. 15 (1927)
Pycnanthus mechowii Warb. [family MYRISTICACEAE], in Nova Acta Acad. Leop.-Carol. 68: 261, t. 10 (1897); Stapf in F.T.A. 6(1): 160 (1909). Type: ?Zaire, ?Temba Aluma (?native name; F.C.B. mentions a Mechow from “Kasai, Kwango”, possibly this one), Mechow (B, holo.†)
Pycnanthus kombo (Welw.) Warb. var. angolensis [family MYRISTICACEAE], in Nova Acta Acad. Leop.-Carol. 68: 257 (1897)
Information
Dioecious or apparently sometimes monoecious (see note), clean straight-boled tree 9–37.5 m. tall, up to 1–1.5 m. d.b.h., with or without rounded not very prominent buttresses up to 3 m. tall; crown small, the branches restricted to the summit and ± at right-angles to the trunk; young branchlets pendulous, densely ferruginous velvety; bark greyish to dark brown, fissured, rough at base; slash deep orange with white patches and copious viscous yellow or red sap (juice said to be dark brownish or tea-coloured in Nigeria and Cameroon); wood reddish. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate or occasionally ± obovate, 7.5–31(–38) cm. long, 4.3–11(–16) cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, cordate or subcordate at the base, velvety dark brown ferruginous pubescent when young, later glabrescent, at leastabove; lateral nerves 20–40 pairs; petiole 0.9–2 cm. long, ± 4 mm. wide. Inflorescences scented, axillary or borne on leafless branches, 10–15 cm. long, densely ferruginous velvety; bracts at base of individual clusters of heads of flowers 2–2.5 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, tomentose, deciduous; other bracts attain 6×4 mm. (?in young female inflorescences). Male flowers with perianth 3(–5)-fid, ± 1 mm. long; lobes obovate, covered with minute vesicular glands outside; staminal column sometimes twisted, 1–1.2 mm. long, with 2–4 exserted anthers ± 0.2 mm. long. Female flowers with broadly ovate perianth-lobes; ovary ± 0.5 mm. diameter. Fruits yellow or rusty brown, narrowly ellipsoid or oblong to globular, (2–)3–4.5 cm. long, (1.6–)2–4 cm. wide, ferruginous tomentose when young; pericarp 2–10 mm. thick; fruiting pedicels, 3–6 mm. long. Seeds dark brown, ellipsoid, 1.5–2.9 cm. long, 0.8–1.6 cm. wide; aril red or pink.

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