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Ricinodendron gracilius

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Name

Identification
Ricinodendron gracilius Mildbr. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Ricinodendron heudelotii
  • Ricinodendron gracilius

Flora

Entry for Ricinodendron heudelotii var. africanum [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Ricinodendron heudelotii var. africanum [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Ricinodendron africanum Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora 47: 533 (1864); in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 1111 (1866), pro parte excl. spec. Mann 825 (‘815’). —Hutchinson in F.T.A. 6, 1: 745 (1912), pro parte excl. spec. Mann 825, Heudelot 857, Johnson 448, 635. —De Wildeman, Pl. Bequaert. 3, 4: 506 (1926).
Ricinodendron heudelotii [family EUPHORBIACEAE], sensu auct. praesertim Pax in Engler, Pflanzenr. [IV, fam. 147, iii] 47: 46 (1911), pro parte excl. spec. Heudelot 857. —Robyns & Tournay, Fl. Sperm. Parc Nat. Alb. 1: 473 (1948). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 225 (1949). —Eggeling & Dale, Indig. Trees Uganda, ed. 2: 138 (1952). —F.W. Andrews, Fl. Pl. Anglo-Egypt. Sudan 2: 95 (1952). —Keay in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1, 2: 393 (1958), pro parte. —Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees & Shrubs: 218 (1961), non (Baill.) Pierre ex Heckel s. str.
Ricinodendron gracilius Mildbr. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 12: 516 (1935) (as “gracilior”). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 225 (1949). Type from Tanzania.
Barrettia umbrosa Sim [family EUPHORBIACEAE], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr.: 103, t. 71 (1909). Type: Mozambique, Quelimane Distr., without precise locality, Sim 6394 (PRE, holotype).
Information
Leaf segments subglabrous, or densely stellate-tomentose on lower surface at first, and soon glabrescent.
Habitat
In open woodland, on dark grey sandy clay soils, also in old Cashew plantations
Range
Nigeria to Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Zaire (lower Shaba) and Angola
Altitude range
80–250 m.
250
80
Distribution
Mozambique N 18 km Memba–Mazua, fr. 11.xii.1963, Torre & Paiva 9500 (LISC).
Notes
The seeds are edible.

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