Entry for SECURIDACA longipedunculata Var. parvifolia [family POLYGALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 125, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
SECURIDACA longipedunculata Var. parvifolia [family POLYGALACEAE]
Information
Leaves considerably smaller, often elliptical (wing of fruit rather abruptly narrowed at base in Angola sp.).
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea provs. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch!Niger Upper Guinea Nupe, Barter!
Notes
The bark of this plant affords the Buaze fibre of Zambesiland. Dr. Kirk brought from the Batoka Highlands a specimen in fruit only of what he considers a distinct species allied to the above, with short lateral branches reduced to sharp spines and not yielding a fibre, but the leaves and fruit afford no distinctive character. A similar plant occurs at Delagoa Bay (Forbes in Herb. Kew.). This may be the plant described by Reichenbach as Heteropterys macroptera, referred to by A. de Jussieu, Monog. Malpigh. 227.
