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Peucedanum fraxinifolium

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Steganotaenia araliacea Hochst. [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Type of Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern ex Oliver [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Original material of Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern ex Oliv.; nom. illeg. [family APIACEAE]
Type of Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern [family APIACEAE]
Syntype of Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern ex Oliver [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Filed as Steganotaenia araliacea Hochst. [family APIACEAE]
Syntype of Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern ex Oliver [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Holotype of Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern ex Oliver var. petiolulasa Hiern [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Filed as Steganotaenia araliacea Hochst. [family APIACEAE]
Filed as Steganotaenia araliacea Hochst. [family APIACEAE]
Steganotaenia araliacea Hochst. [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Isotype of Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern ex Oliv. var. haemanthum Welw. ex Hiern [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Syntype of Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern ex Oliver [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Original material of Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern ex Oliv.; nom. illeg. [family APIACEAE]
Type? of Alvardia arborescens Fenzl; nom. nud. [family APIACEAE]
Filed as Steganotaenia araliacea Hochst. [family APIACEAE]
Syntype of Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern ex Oliver [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Isotype of Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern ex Oliv. var. haemanthum Welw. ex Hiern [family UMBELLIFERAE]
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Name

Identification
Peucedanum fraxinifolium Hiern [family APIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Steganotaenia araliacea Hochst. [family APIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Steganotaenia araliacea
  • Alvardia arborescens
  • Peucedanum araliaceum
  • Peucedanum fraxinifolium
  • Peucedanum welwitschii

Flora

Entry for PEUCEDANUM fraxinifolium Hiern [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 1, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
PEUCEDANUM fraxinifolium Hiern [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Steganotænia araliacea A. Rich. var. α [family ], Fl. Abyss. i. 328.
Information
A glabrous tree with terete stem and branches. Leaves pinnate, crowded near the ends of the barren branches, 8–12 in. long, bearing usually 9 leaflets; petioles less than half the whole length of the leaves; leaflets ovate-acuminate, often cordate at base, subsessile or shortly stalked, irregularly serrato-setose; lateral ones oblique and subfalcate; venation as in P. araliaceum, but less conspicuous and depressed on upper side. Umbels at ends of branches arranged on peduncles, 6–8 together in a subumbellate manner, about 5 in. long, which usually bear 2 umbels, one about 1 in. distant above the other; primary fruiting rays 1–1 1/2 in. long, secondary 1/7– 1/4 in. long. Styles very short in flower, long and slender in fruit. Bracts of involucre and involucel lanceolate, deciduous. Fruit obovato-oblong, widely cordate at apex, subcordate at base, broadly winged, thickening upwards and terminating in a flat firm disk, 1/2 in. long by 1/4– 1/3 in. wide; 3 primary ridges prominent, slender. Vittæ several, between the primary ridges, 6 (?) in the commissural face of each mericarp. Disk and anthers yellow.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Chr. Smith!Mozamb. Dist. Maganja hills, 3000 ft. alt., Meller!Abyssinia Nile Land Amba Sea, fl. May, 6000–7000 ft. alt., Schimper! (a form with 7-foliolate leaves, and leaflets caudate-acuminate, setose, shortly petiolulate).Nile Land Madi woods, fl. in December, Speke and Grant! 639. “ Steganotænia, sp. a forest tree,” Speke and Grant, Nile Journal, 635.

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