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Sideroxylon longistylum

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Identification
Sideroxylon longistylum Baker [family SAPOTACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Synsepalum brevipes (Baker) T.D.Penn. [family SAPOTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pachystela brevipes
  • Pachystela lenticellosa
  • Pachystela cinereum
  • Sideroxylon longistylum
  • Chrysophyllum cinereum
  • Sideroxylon dulcificum
  • Synsepalum brevipes

Flora

Entry for SIDEROXYLON longistylum Baker [family SAPOTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 497, (1877) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
SIDEROXYLON longistylum Baker [family SAPOTACEAE]
Information
Branchlets slender, nearly naked. Leaves short-petioled, stipulate; stipules coriaceous, subulate, 3/8– 1/2 in. long, sub-persistent; blade obovate-oblong, reaching a length of 6–7 in., and a breadth of 2–2 1/2 in. above the middle, narrowed gradually from the middle to the base, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous on both sides, with 8–10 pairs of little raised arching main veins. Flowers in copious clusters from the leafless part of the branchlets, on pedicels 1/8– 1/6 in. long, coated with thin brown tomentum. Calyx campanulate, 1/8 in. long, coated with similar thin adpressed tomentum, the 5 oblong-lanceolate erect teeth twice as long as the tube. Corolla-tube campanulate; lobes not seen. Stamens inserted a little below the top of the corolla-tube, alternate with 5 minute lanceolate staminodes inserted in the same level. Ovary silky ovoid; style 1/6 in. long, moderately stout, naked, sulcate at the stigmatose tip.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot!Upper Guinea and a plant seen in fruit only with an ellipsoid glabrous drupe an inch long, with a thin pericarp and single large seed from Liberia, Carder! and a closely allied plant, seen in bud only, from Congo, Prof. C. Smith!

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