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Schmidelia affinis

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Name

Identification
Allophylus africanus [family SAPINDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Schmidelia affinis Guill. & Perr. [family SAPINDACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Schmidelia africana
  • Allophyllus africanus
  • Schmidelia affinis
  • Schmidelia racemosa
  • Ornitrophe schmidelia
  • Allophylus africanus

Flora

Entry for SCHMIDELIA affinis Guill. et Perr. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 416, (1868) Author: (by Mr. J. G. Baker).
Names
SCHMIDELIA affinis Guill. et Perr. [family SAPINDACEAE], Fl. Seneg. i. 121.
Information
A tree, 20 ft. high, with woody, finely grey-villose, terete, ultimate branches. Petioles firm, woody, 1–2 in. long. Leaflets 3, nearly sessile, oblong-cuneate, the central one about 4 in. long by half as broad, the point bluntish, the edge very nearly entire, texture subcoriaceous, upper surface dark green and glabrous, lower finely grey-downy all over with the main veins rather prominent. Flowers in a copious terminal panicle and in smaller axillary ones on firm, woody, finely grey-downy peduncles, 1–2 in. long. Branches racemose, the flowers crowded, about 1/2 line long. Sepals boat-shaped and ciliated; the petals shorter than the sepals, villose on the inner face. Stamens exserted. Ovaries ovoid, villose. Mature fruit not seen.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Perrottet!Niger Upper Guinea ravine near Nupe, Barter!
Notes
General habit of S. africana, from which it differs by its shorter spikes and entire leaflets finely downy beneath.

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