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Rhaphiostylis scandens

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Identification
Rhaphiostylis scandens Engl. [family ICACINACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Rhaphiostylis beninensis (Hook.f. ex Planch.) Planch. ex Benth. [family ICACINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Rhaphiostylis beninensis
  • Rhaphiostylis scandens

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Entry for RHAPHIOSTYLIS beninensis (Planch.) Benth. [family ICACINACEAE]
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, (1968) Author: G. Ll. Lucas
Names
RHAPHIOSTYLIS beninensis (Planch.) Benth. [family ICACINACEAE], in Hook., Niger Fl.: 259, t. 28 (1849); Engl. in V.E. 3(2): 256 (1921), as “Raphiostyles ”; Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 20B: 368 (1942); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 638 (1958); Boutique in F.C.B. 9: 275 (1960); F.F.N.R.: 221 (1962); Mendes in F.Z. 2: 347, t. 73 (1963). Type: Liberia, Cape Palmas, T. Vogel 46 (K, holo.!)
Apodytes beninensis Planch. [family ICACINACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 8, t. 778 (1848); F.T.A. 1: 355 (1868), excl. var. β
Rhaphiostylis stuhlmannii Engl. [family ICACINACEAE], in E.J. 17: 72 (1893), as “Raphiostyles”; T.T.C.L.: 252 (1949). Type: Uganda, Sese Is., Stuhlmann 1221 (B, holo.†, K, iso.!)
Rhaphiostylis scandens Engl. [family ICACINACEAE], in E.J. 43: 183 (1909), as “Raphiostyles ”. Types: Tanganyika, E. Usambara Mts., Derema, Scheffler 146 (B, syn.†, EA, K, isosyn.!) & Scheffler 165 (B, syn.†, EA, isosyn.!) & Amani, Braun in Herb. Amani 1444 (B, syn.†, EA, isosyn.!)
Information
Scandent shrub or liane up to 15 m. long, often 5–6 cm. in diameter; branches glabrous, reddish-brown when young, becoming grey with age. Leaf-blade elliptic to lanceolate, 5–15 cm. long, 2–8 cm. wide, abruptly or gradually acuminate, cuneate to ± rounded at the base, glabrous, coriaceous, dark green above, paler beneath, with the midrib slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, and with 4–5(–6) pairs of secondary veins prominent on both surfaces; petiole 3–5 mm. long, canaliculate. Flowers few to many in ± axillary fascicles, pedicellate; bracts minute. Calyx 0.4–0.7 mm. long; lobes deltoid, ciliate. Petals free, white, drying black, linear, up to 7 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide. Ovary ovoid, up to 1 mm. long, glabrous or with a few hairs at the apex; style eccentric, filiform, up to 4 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, persistent; stigma capitate. Fruit broadly ovoid, obliquely dorsi-ventrally compressed, up to 1.3 cm. long and 2 cm. wide and 1 cm. thick, red when mature, glossy black and characteristically reticulately wrinkled on drying. Fig. 3, p. 7.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4; T1, 3, 4, 6 westwards to Senegal and southwards to Mozambique, Rhodesia and Angola
Altitude range
900–1350 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Bukoba District Katoma, Gillman 346!TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Amani, 21 Dec. 1928, Oreenway 1066!TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Turiani, Nov. 1954, Semsei 1932!UGANDA Toro District Kibale Forest, Mar. 1943, St. Clair-Thompson in Eggeling 5248!UGANDA Ankole District Mbarara,Oct. 1925, Maitland 881!UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe, Oct. 1937, Chandler 1953!

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