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Schefflera volkensii

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Type of Heptapleurum volkensii Harms [family ARALIACEAE]
Schefflera volkensii Harms. [family ARALIACEAE]
Filed as Schefflera volkensii (Harms) Harms [family ARALIACEAE]
Type of Heptapleurum volkensii Engl. [family ARALIACEAE]
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Identification
Schefflera volkensii (Harms) Harms [family ARALIACEAE ] (stored under name); Heptapleurum volkensii Harms [family ARALIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for SCHEFFLERA volkensii (Engl.) Harms [family ARALIACEAE]
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, Author: J. R. TENNANT
Names
SCHEFFLERA volkensii (Engl.) Harms [family ARALIACEAE], in E. & P. Pf. 3 (8): 36, fig. 7 (1894); P.O.A. C: 297 (1895); V.E. 3 (2): 777, fig. 323 (1921); Battiscombe, Cat. Trees Kenya Col.: 86 (1926); Check-lists For. Trees & Shrubs Brit. Emp., No. 1, Uganda Prot.: 24 (1935); T.S.K.: 115 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 61 (1949); I.T.U., ed. 2: 36 (1952); K.T.S.: 56 (1961). Types: Tanganyika, Kilimanjaro, Volkens 986 (B, syn. †) & 1297 (B, syn. †, K, isosyn.!)
Heptapleurum volkensii Engl. [family ARALIACEAE], in E.J. 19, Beiblatt 47: 41 (1894)
Information
Scandent shrub or tall (sometimes spreading and much branched) tree up to 24–30 m. tall, or an epiphyte upon other trees. Petiole up to 13(–17) cm. long by 3.2(–3.8) mm. diameter, sometimes somewhat expanded at base, glabrous or sparsely hairy at tip; leaflets 4–6(–7), generally coriaceous, narrowly obovate or elliptic, occasionally oblanceolate or obovate, rarely narrowly or broadly elliptic, up to 15 cm. long by 7 cm. wide, acute to rounded or rarely slightly retuse at apex, with a generally acute, sometimes acute to rounded or broadly to narrowly cuneate base, with entire to very slightly repand, sometimes very slightly crisped margins, glabrous; petiolules up to 2.1(–2.8) cm. long by 1.9 mm. diameter. Stipules sheath-like, up to about 1–2(-l.4) cm. long. Inflorescence (fig. 5/8) a ± extended or compressed raceme of bracteate racemes of small pedunculate ± globular capitula up to 7 mm. diameter when flowers in bud; primary branches up to 23 cm. long by 4.0(–5.5) mm. diameter, generally sparsely lenticellate; secondary branches (peduncles of capitula) (5–)10(–17) mm. long, sometimes lenticellate, borne in the axils of ovate to oblate bracts up to 4 mm. long. Flowers sessile, up to 12–20 together. Fruits ± urceolate, up to 5.5 mm. long by 4(–5) mm. diameter, ± 5-ribbed, minutely puberulous or glabrous; stylopodium up to 7 mm. long; styles 5, free and spreading for up to 0.5 mm. terminally.
Range
DISTR. U3; K3–6; T2
Altitude range
1600–3230 m.
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Elgon, eastern slope above Tweedie’s saw-mill, 25 Feb. 1948 (young fr.), Hedberg 162!KENYA Nakuru District eastern Mau Forest Reserve, 30 Aug. 1949 (fr.), Maas Geesteranus 5975!KENYA Machakos/Masai Districts Chyulu Hills, 24 Apr. 1938 (young fr.), Bally 340, 470, 1151 in C.M. 7963!TANGANYIKA Masai District Ketumbaine Mt., 9 Jan. 1936 (fl.), Greenway 4293!TANGANYIKA Arusha District Meru Forest Reserve, Narok, Dec. 1951 (fl.), Watkins 577!TANGANYIKA SW. Kilimanjaro, Feb. 1928 (fl. & young fr.), Haarer 1176!UGANDA Elgon, 27 Oct. 1923 (fl. & young fr.), Snowden 805! & Jan. 1918 (young fr.), Dummer 3605! & Feb. 1940 (fr.), St. Clair-Thompson in Eggeling 3958!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia

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