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Platymitium loranthifolium

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Identification
Platymitium loranthifolium Warb. [family SALVADORACEAE ] Dobera loranthifolia (Warb.) Harms [family SALVADORACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Dobera loranthifolia
  • Platymitium loranthifolium

Flora

Entry for DOBERA loranthifolia (Warb.) Harms [family SALVADORACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by Abdi M. Dahir [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
DOBERA loranthifolia (Warb.) Harms [family SALVADORACEAE], (1897);
Platymitium loranthifolium Warb. [family SALVADORACEAE], (1895). Fig. 79 A–J. [type as above]
DOBERA macalusoi Mattei [family SALVADORACEAE], (1908);. types: S2, Mogadishu, Macaluso 60 and “Brava”, Macaluso 25, S3, “Giumbo”, Macaluso 38 (all PAL syn.).
DOBERA glabra (Mattei) Fiori var. macalusoi [family SALVADORACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1913: 48 (1913);. types: S2, Mogadishu, Macaluso 60 and “Brava”, Macaluso 25, S3, “Giumbo”, Macaluso 38 (all PAL syn.).
Information
Tree, up to 15 m tall, with a bushy rounded or conical crown; bark usually rough and reticulately fissured. Leaves with petiole 4–5 mm long; blade elliptic, obovate or rarely almost round, 1.5–10 x 1.2–7.3 cm, rounded to cuneate at the base, mostly acute at the apex, glabrous or with a covering of minute glandular papillae on the lower surface; venation nearly always prominent and reticulate. Flowers white or cream, c. 3 mm long, in axillary and terminal panicles. Calyx often shortly 4-lobed, c. 2 mm long. Petals 3–3.5 mm long. Filaments 0.8–1 mm long; anthers 1–1.5 mm long. Ovules 2 but only one develops to a seed. Fruit ellipsoid, 1–1.6 x 0.7–1 cm. Seed ovoid, somewhat flattened, 0.9–1.1 x 0.6–0.7 cm.
Range
S2, 3
Altitude range
0–150 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Deshmukh 255; Beckett & White 1631.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
Notes
Garas, towsi (Som.). The fruits are edible, and the kernel is also boiled and used as a stomach medicine. The identity of the three syntypes of D. macalusoi is not quite certain.

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