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Identification
Pteleopsis ritschardii De Wild. [family COMBRETACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pteleopsis anisoptera (Welw. ex M.A.Lawson) Engl. & Diels [family COMBRETACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Liben L., 1964
Related name
  • Pteleopsis ritschardii
  • Combretum anisopterum
  • Pteleopsis anisoptera

Flora

Entry for PTELEOPSIS anisoptera (Laws.) Engl. & Diels [family COMBRETACEAE]
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, (1973) Author: G. E. WICKENS
Names
PTELEOPSIS anisoptera (Laws.) Engl. & Diels [family COMBRETACEAE], in E.M. 4: 4 (1900); F.F.N.R.: 287, fig. 50/G (1962); Liben in F.C.B., Combr.: 5, fig. 1/A (1968); Exell in Kirkia 7: 227 (1970). Type: Angola, Huila, Lopolo, Welwitsch 4374 (LISU, holo., BM !, COI, K !, P, iso.)
Combretum anisopterum Laws [family COMBRETACEAE], in F.T.A. 2: 429 (1871)
Pteleopsis ritschardii De Wild. [family COMBRETACEAE], Contr. Fl. Katanga, Suppl. 2: 82 (1929). Types: Zaire, Katanga, Mukulakulu, Ritschard 1428 & Dilolo, Sapin 155 (both BR, syn.)
Information
Small tree up to 12(–18) m. high or occasionally a shrub; bark grey with longitudinal fissures; young branchlets at first pubescent, soon glabrescent. Leaves opposite, subopposite or sometimes alternate; lamina elliptic or narrowly elliptic or obovate-elliptic, up to 7 cm. long and 3.5 cm. wide, apex not or scarcely acuminate, usually apiculate or mucronate, base cuneate to rounded, at first densely sericeous-pilose, especially beneath, eventually pilose to pubescent or almost glabrous, matt or somewhat shiny above; lateral nerves 4–6 pairs, tending to form a rather acute angle with the midrib and to run parallel to the margin; petiole up to 6 mm. long; buds conical, nearly glabrous, tending to be conspicuous in the axils of the old leaves. Inflorescences of axillary subcapitate racemes up to 3 cm. long. Flowers white, hermaphrodite and ♂ in the same inflorescence, ♂ flowers similar to the hermaphrodite flowers (style present but often shorter), the ovary not developing and pedicellatefor 10 mm. Floral characters similar to P. myrtifolia. Fruit 3–4(–5)-winged, obovate to elliptic in outline, 1–1.8 cm. long, 0.6–1.2 cm. wide, glabrous, apex usually emarginate and generally with a distinct apical peg 0.5–3 mm. long, base decurrent into the stipe and usually oblique; stipe up to 2 cm. long, slender.
Range
DISTR. T4
Altitude range
840 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Kasanga, 20 June 1957, Richards 10178 !
Distribution (external)
; Zaire
Zambia
Mozambique
Rhodesia
Angola
Notes
Further gatherings of the species are required from E. Africa.

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