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Oxymitra patens

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Cleistopholis patens (Benth.) Engl. & Diels [family ANNONACEAE]
Cleistopholis patens (Benth.) Engl. & Diels [family ANNONACEAE]
Cleistopholis patens (Benth.) Engl. & Diels [family ANNONACEAE]
Cleistopholis patens (Benth.) Engl. & Diels [family ANNONACEAE]
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Identification
Cleistopholis patens (Benth.) Engl. & Diels [family ANNONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hutchinson; Dalziel, Oxymitra patens Benth. [family ANNONACEAE ]
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  • Oxymitra patens
  • Cleistopholis patens

Flora

Entry for CLEISTOPHOLIS patens (Benth.) Engl. & Diels [family ANNONACEAE]
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, (1971) Author: B. Verdcourt
Names
CLEISTOPHOLIS patens (Benth.) Engl. & Diels [family ANNONACEAE], in E.M. 6: 35, t. 12/D (1901); Boutique in F.C.B. 2: 302 (1951); I.T.U., ed. 2: 18 (1952); Keay, F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 38 (1954) & 757 (1958); R. E. Fries in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 17a (2): 69 (1959); Paiva in Mem. Soc. Brot. 19: 28 (1966); Le Thomas in Fl. Gabon 16, Annonacées: 91, t. 16/5–10 (1969). Types: Sierra Leone, Bagroo R., Mann 828 & Nigeria, R. Niger, Eppar, Barter 3267 (both K, syn.!)
Oxymitra patens Benth. [family ANNONACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. 23: 472, t. 51 (1862); Oliv. in F.T.A. 1: 34 (1868)
Information
Tree 7.5–20(–30) m. tall, with a trunk up to 10 m. tall and 20–90 cm. wide; bark greyish-white, smooth, fibrous or furrowed; branchlets glabrous, ridged. Leaf-blades elliptic, oblong-lanceolate or obovate-oblong, slightly falcate, 2.5–25(–29) cm. long, 1.2–6.3 cm. wide, narrowly acuminate at the apex, cuneate or rounded but ± decurrent at the base, subcoriaceous, discolorous, shining above, glabrous, the 10–24 lateral nerves impressed above, prominent beneath; veins reticulate; petiole channelled, 0.3–1 cm. long. Flowers 2–8 in fascicles; pedicels 0.8–2.5(–3.8) cm. long, glabrous; bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, ± 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, very deciduous. Sepals broadly ovateor almost round, 1.5–2 mm. long and wide, ciliate. Outer petals erect, green or greenish-yellow, obovate or obovate-oblong, 0.5–1.2 em. long, 2–4 mm. wide, mostly obtuse, subcoriaceous; inner petals broadly ovate or rounded, 2–2.5(–5) mm. long and wide, concave, ciliolate. Stamens obpyramidal, 0.75–1 mm. long, the connective truncate. Fruiting pedicels 1.5–2.8 cm. long, glabrous; monocarps 4–9, subglobose, ellipsoidal or transverse, 1.5–2.5 cm. long and wide, 1–2 seeded, slightly constricted between the seeds when 2-seeded, glabrous, tuberculate; stipes ± 7 mm. long. Seeds globose or ellipsoid, 1.2–1.5 cm. in diameter, tuberculate. Fig. 5.
Range
DISTR. U1, 2 W. Africa to Angola, Central African Republic and Congo
Altitude range
750–1110 m.
Distribution
UGANDA W. Nile District Zoka Forest Reserve, Feb. 1961, Philip 930!;UGANDA Bunyoro District Budongo Forest, Siba area, Oct. 1933, Eggeling 1448 ! & Mar. 1936, Eggeling 3043!;UGANDA Ankole District Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kichwamba to Kazinga, 24 Feb. 1954, Osmaston 3603!
Notes
Dale (I.T.U., ed. 2: 18 (1952)) records this species from Toro and Acholi also. Keay (F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 39 (1954)) records C. staudtii Engl. & Diels from Uganda, but the admittedly poor material I have seen from Uganda seems to have the petals of C. patens.

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