Compilation
Royena goetzei
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Name
Identification
Isotype of Royena goetzei Gurke [family EBENACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Diospyros whyteana (Hiern) F.White [family EBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by White F., 1961
Related name
- Royena goetzei
- Diospyros whyteana
Flora
Entry for DIOSPYROS whyteana (Hiern) F. White [family EBENACEAE]
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, (1996) Author: F. White and B. Verdcourt
Names
DIOSPYROS whyteana (Hiern) F. White [family EBENACEAE], in Bothalia 7: 458 (1961) & F.F.N.R.: 326, t. 58D-E (1962) & in Mitt. Bot. Staats. München 10: 94, fig. 3 (1971); De Winter in F.S.A. 26: 69 (1963); Palmer & Pitman, Trees Southern Afr. 3: 1800, t. & photo. (1973); K. Coates Palgrave, Trees Southern Afr.: 753, t. 247 (1977); F. White in F.Z. 7(1): 269, t. 59D (1983). Type: Malawi, Mt. Mulanje, Whyte (BM, holo.!)
Royena lucida L. [family EBENACEAE], sp Pl.: 397 (1753), non DIOSPYROS lucida Loud. Type: South Africa, Linnaean Herbarium 570.1 (LINN, lecto.!)
Royena whyteana Hiern [family EBENACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot., ser. 2, 4: 25 (1894)
Royena goetzei Gürke [family EBENACEAE], in E.J. 30: 372 (1901); T.T.C.L.: 189 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Mbeya District, Igala [Wigali] Pass, Goetze 1344 (B, holo.†, BM, iso.!)
Royena nyassae Gürke [family EBENACEAE], in E.J. 30: 373 (1901); T.T.C.L.: 189 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Rungwe, Goetze 1203 (B, holo.†, BM, iso.!)
Royena lucida (Hiern) De Winter & Brenan var. whyteana [family EBENACEAE], in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 499 (1954)
Information
Evergreen shrub or tree 1.2-13 m. tall; bark sepia, rough, shallowly vertically fissured with yellow slash darkening to deep yellow; young shoots red, densely hairy. Leaves drying pale reddish brown and ± shiny above, lanceolate, lanceolate-elliptic or elliptic, 2-8 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, tapering acute to subacuminate, rounded to cordate at the base, glossy and glabrous to adpressed pilose above, sparsely pilose with long hairs beneath, particularly on the midrib; margins fringed with long hairs; lateral nerves in ± 6 pairs, the venation indistinct but darker than the lamina beneath. Male flowers 5-6(-7)-merous, solitary, axillary; pedicels 0.5-2 cm. long; bracts 2, leafy, separated, ovate-lanceolate, 6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide; inflorescence indumentum of unicellular hairs and shorter multicellular glandular hairs; calyx urceolate, 3.5-7.5 mm. long, shortly toothed, with adpressed to spreading hairs; corolla white or pale orange, sometimes tinged pink, campanulate, 0.5-1.2 cm. long, 5-6-lobed to ± the middle, minutely puberulous; disk fimbriate; stamens 10, all fertile or some replaced by staminodes, 4-5 mm. long; filaments 0.5-1 mm. long, glabrous; anthers lanceolate, 3-4.5 mm. long, setulose on the distal half of the connective, otherwise glabrous; rudimentary ovary conical, tomentellous, with 4-6 locules; styles 2-3, hairy on the united basal half. Female flowers similar to the male; staminodes 6-10, 1.2 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely setulose at the apex; ovary conical, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, with 4-6 locules; styles 2-3. Fruit red, subglobose, up to 2 cm. diameter, glabrescent, the calyx green flushed red, accrescent, papery, inflated, bladder-like, 6-7-grooved, completely concealing the fruit. Seeds 4 or fewer, chestnut, oblong-subtrigonous, 7-10 mm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, with smooth endosperm. Fig. 2/15; fig. 6/7-9.
Range
DISTR. T 6-8; Zimbabwe south to South Africa (Cape Province)
Altitude range
(1350-)1500-2300 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Iringa District Mufindi, Kigogo, May 1953, Eggeling 6624!;TANZANIA Rungwe Forest Reserve, Jan. 1954, Paulo 228!;TANZANIA Njombe District Milo, 17 Oct. 1978, Archbold 2571!;TANZANIA Songea District Matengo Hills, Lupembe Hill, 29 Feb. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8903!
Distribution (external)
Mozambique
Malawi
Zambia