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Panax pinnatum

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Identification
Polyscias farinosa Harms [family ARALIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hutchinson & Dalziel, Panax pinnatum A.Rich. [family ARALIACEAE ] Aralia pinnata Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family ARALIACEAE ] Nothopanax farinosum Seem. [family ARALIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Aralia pinnata
  • Panax pinnatum
  • Polyscias kikuyuensis
  • Nothopanax farinosum
  • Polyscias farinosa

Flora

Entry for PANAX pinnatum A. Rich. [family ARALIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 27, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
PANAX pinnatum A. Rich. [family ARALIACEAE], in Fl. Abyss. i. 335.
Aralia pinnata Hochst. [family ARALIACEAE], in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. n. 1583.
Aralia farinosa Delil. [family ARALIACEAE], in Ferr. & Gal., Voy. Abyss. iii. 135, n. 72, teste Seemann.
Nothopanax farinosum Seem. [family ARALIACEAE], in Rev. Heder. 72.
Information
A small tree with glabrous leaves, crowded at the ends of the branches, 16 in. long, with terete subsulcate petioles, nearly a foot long. Branchlets herbaceous, thick, marked by the scars of fallen leaves, floccoso-tomentose. Leaflets 11–19, oblong, acute, cordate at the base, glaucescent, 3–5 in. long, the lower ones the longer. Umbellules many, arranged in racemes 6–8 in. long, which are placed near together in a terminal inflorescence, the main axis especially of which is covered with a farinose pale yellowish tomentum. Bracteoles tomentose, stalks of the umbellules 1/7– 1/5 in. long; rays 1/10 in. long, ovary striate, glabrous; disk conical, surmounted by 2 short styles. Young fruit 1/7 in. long.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land fl. April, Schimper! Ferret and Galinier.

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