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Paxiodendron usambarense

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Identification
Paxiodendron usambarense Engl. [family MONIMIACEAE ] Verified by Engler, A., Xymalos monospora Baill. [family MONIMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Paiva, J., 1970
Related name
  • Xymalos monospora
  • Paxiodendron usambarense

Flora

Entry for XYMALOS monospora Baill. [family MONIMIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 492, (1912) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
XYMALOS monospora Baill. [family MONIMIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 650;—Warb. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 6A, 53, fig. 21, A. B.; Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2444; Perkins in Engl. Pflanzenr. Monimiaceæ, 23; Sim, For. Fl. Cape Col. 288, t. 121; Burtt-Davy in Transv. Agric. Journ. v. 416, 426, t. 171; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 169.
XYMALOS usambarensis Engl. [family MONIMIACEAE], Jahrb. xxx. 310.
Xylosma monospora Harv. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], Thes. Cap. ii. 52, t. 181.
Toxicodendron acutifolium Benth. [family ANACARDIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 214.
Paxiodendron usambarense Engl. [family MONIMIACEAE], Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 182, incl. var. serratifolia.
Information
a shrub or small tree; branches glabrous; leaves alternate or almost opposite, up to 6 in. long and 2 1/2 in. wide, varying from obovate to elliptic, cuneate at the base, usually irregularly serrate, more rarely entire, glabrous; main lateral nerves forming loops about 3 lin. within the margin; petiole about 6 lin. long; inflorescence diœcious; male flowers subtended by an ovate pubescent bract shorter than the perianth; perianth nearly 1 lin. long, deeply 4-lobed, pubescent; stamens about 10; anthers shortly elliptic, subsessile; female flowers: perianth 3–5-lobed, less than 1 lin. long, pubescent outside, and with a ring of hairs inside near the base; ovary oblong, slightly longer than the perianth. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa. Known in South Africa as “wild lemon,” “lemon-wood” and “limoen hout.”
Distribution
COAST REGION Victoria East Div.; in woods at the source of the Chumie River, Tyson in Herb. MacOwan, 2962! Cathcart Div.; Amatola Range, MacOwan, 2962! British Kaffraria; without precise locality, Mrs. Barber, 10!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Kentani, Miss Pegler, 835! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 986! 1315! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1251! Gerrard, 1921! Swaziland; Forbes Reef, 5100 ft., Burtt-Davy, 2732!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; without precise locality, Cooper, 1204! Transvaal; Houtbosch mountains, Nelson, 428!

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