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Sarcophrynium arnoldianum

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Identification
Sarcophrynium arnoldianum De Wild. [family MARANTACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Megaphrynium macrostachyum (Benth.) Milne-Redh. [family MARANTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for MEGAPHRYNIUM macrostachyum (Benth.) Milne-Redh. [family MARANTACEAE]
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, (1952) Author: E. MILNE-REDHEAD
Names
MEGAPHRYNIUM macrostachyum (Benth.) Milne-Redh. [family MARANTACEAE], in K.B. 1952: 170 (1952). Type: British Cameroons: Ambas Bay, Mann 1335 (K, holo.!)
Phrynium macrostachyum Benth. [family MARANTACEAE], in G.P. 3: 653 (1883)
Phrynium benthami Baker [family MARANTACEAE], in F.T.A. 7: 323 (1889), nom. illegit. Type as M. macrostachyum (Benth.) K. Schum.
Sacrophrynium macrostachyum (Benth.) K. Schum. [family ], in E.P. IV. 48: 37 (1902); Hutch. in F.W.T.A. 2: 336 (1936); B.S.B.B. 83: 28 (1950)
Sarcophrynium arnoldianum De Wild. [family MARANTACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Congo., Bot. Sér. V, 1: 107 (1904). Type: Belgian Congo, Kasai, Lusanga, Gentil 85 (BR, lecto.)
Information
Glabrous or pubescent herb; rhizome up to 6 m. long bearing singly numerous leaves. Stem up to 2.5 m. long. Leaves with petiole up to 5 m. long but often less; calloused part 7–15 cm. long; blade ovate-elliptic, ± symmetric, normally 6 dm., occasionally up to 9 dm. long, acute or shortly acuminate, ± rounded at the base. Inflorescence arising 10–33 cm. below the calloused part of the petiole, up to 25 cm. long; internodes up to 20, 4–8 mm. long; bracts 17–23 mm. long, white; peduncle 6–10 mm. long; fleshy bracteole about 2.5 mm. long. Flowers white, tinged yellow or orange, when expanded about 2 cm. in diameter. Fruit depressed globose, about 2.5 cm. in diameter, smooth, bright scarlet, with white pulp inside, normally 3-seeded; seed as in Fig. 1/2A,p. 3, about 15 mm. long, chocolate-purple, bluish-violet or black, clothed in a deeply laciniate whitish aril. Fig. 1/2 and 2A,p. 3.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4 Sierra Leone to Belgian Congo and A.-E. Sudan
Altitude range
1130–1500 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Toro District Kilemba, 20 Febr. 1939 (fr.), Thomas 2776!;UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe Botanic Garden, probably native, Apr. 1948 (fl.), Eggeling 5770! & 15 July 1948 (fr.), Eggeling 5770A!

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