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Ochna insculpta

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Filed as Ochna insculpta Sleumer [family OCHNACEAE]
Filed as Ochna insculpta Sleumer [family OCHNACEAE]
Filed as Ochna insculpta Sleumer [family OCHNACEAE]
Filed as Ochna insculpta Sleumer [family OCHNACEAE]
Type of Ochna insculpta Sleumer [family OCHNACEAE]
Ochna boranensis Cufod. [family OCHNACEAE]
Ochna boranensis Cufod. [family OCHNACEAE]
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Identification
Ochna insculpta Sleumer [family OCHNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Ochna boranensis Cufod. [family OCHNACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Ochna insculpta
  • Ochna boranensis

Flora

Entry for Ochna insculpta Sleumer [family OCHNACEAE]
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, (2005) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
Ochna insculpta Sleumer [family OCHNACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 12: 68 (1934); K.T.S.: 338, fig. 66 (1961); Blundell, Wild Fl. E Afr.: 63 (1987); K.T.S.L: 122 (1994); Vollesen in Fl. Ethiopia & Eritrea 2 (2): 67, fig. 69. 2. 1 & 2 (1995). Type: Kenya, Embu District: E Mt Kenya, Kirimiri, R.E. & T.C.E. Fries 2028 (UPS!, holo., B†, iso., UPS!, iso.)
Ochna nandiensis Dale [family OCHNACEAE], Trees & Shrubs Kenya Colony: 27 (1936) nomen anglice; Jex-Blake, Gard. E Afr. ed. 4: 267 (1957) (name very widely used but never validated)
Ochna boranensis Cufod. [family OCHNACEAE], in Miss. Biol. Borana Racc.-Bot.: 138 (1939). Type: Ethiopia, Sidamo, Cufodontis 291 & 353 (FT, syn.)
Ochna sp. [family OCHNACEAE], ; Jex-Blake, Gard. E Afr. ed. 3, 208, t. 1 (1949)
Ochna sp. near macrocalyx [family OCHNACEAE], ; I.T.U. ed. 2: 281 (1952)
Information
Shrub 1–2.5 m tall or tree 7–9 m tall with smooth brown bark or sometimes rough and finely fissured; young branchlets angular or ridged, densely lenticellate; flowering branchlets often leafless. Leaves very glossy and bronze-flushed when young, thin, oblong-elliptic, 2.5–12(–14) cm long, 1.2–4.3(–5) cm wide, acute, slightly acuminate or narrowed to a ± rounded apex, cuneate to ± rounded at the base, spinulose-serrate or ± setose at the margin, the spinules subulate, facing apex; lateral veins 13–15, prominent, but the actual area of lamina around the veins very often conspicuously impressed; tertiary venation reticulate, very prominent above, less so beneath; petiole 1–3 mm long; stipules narrowly triangular, 6 mm long, 3 mm wide, serrate near tip. Flowers 1–6 in short raceme-like or subumbellate inflorescences, the rhachis 0–7 mm long or flowers solitary; pedicels 2–3.3 mm long, jointed (1–)5–7 mm from the base. Sepals ovate-oblong, 1.2–2.2 cm long, 6–8 mm wide, becoming red but scarcely enlarging in fruit up to 2.4 cm long, 1 cm wide. Petals yellow, round or elliptic, (8–)18–25 mm long, (9–)13–18 mm wide, narrowed at the base. Anthers 4–6.5 mm long, slightly longer than the filaments, opening by apical pores. Carpels 5–7; styles very shortly branched at apex. Drupelets black, ellipsoid or subcylindrical, 10–12 mm long, 7–8 mm wide (rarely 8x4.5 mm). Fig. 2 (p. 15).
Range
DISTR. U 4; K 1, 3–6; T 2
Altitude range
1050–2100 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Marsabit, 14 Feb. 1953, Gillett 15113!;KENYA Nairobi District Karura Forest, 30 Mar. 1947, Bogdan 468!;KENYA Kericho District Sotik, Nandaret Estate, Oct. 1957, Dale 1024!TANZANIA Moshi District Old Moshi, Semkiwa 78! &TANZANIA Arusha District Ngurdoto National Park, Longil, 28 Feb. 1966, Greenway & Kanuri 12400 ! & same area, Lochu, 1 Mar. 1966, Greenway & Kanuri 12407!UGANDA Mengo District Buruma Is., 20 Mar. 1904, Bagshawe 636! & km 21 on Entebbe road [from Kampala], Nov. 1937, Chandler 2031!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Notes
Gillett sent a to the botanist ‘in charge of Ochnaceae’ to be put in the covers (dated 17 May 1979) discussing the relation between O. insculpta and O. macrocalyx. He thought these could just be distinguished using size of plant, length of fruiting calyx and ecological preferences. Until the taxonomy of the variable O. macrocalyx is better understood O. insculpta is best kept distinct. It has been cultivated at various places in Nairobi but material in the Arboretum is probably part of the original cover or derived from it. Gardner in F.D. 1402 states timber tree but his specimen was collected from coppice shoots in the Nature Reserve outside the forest. I think this and other reports of O. inculpta becoming a large tree are due to confusion with O. holstii .

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