Pseudospondias microcarpa(A.Rich.) Engl. [family ANACARDIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hutchinson; Dalziel, Spondias microcarpaA.Rich. [family ANACARDIACEAE ]
Related name
Spondias microcarpa
Pseudospondias microcarpa
Flora
Entry for SPONDIAS microcarpa Rich. [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 435, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
SPONDIAS microcarpaRich. [family ANACARDIACEAE], in Fl. Seneg. i. 151. t. 40.
? SPONDIAS ZanzeeDon [family ], (, Gen. Syst. ii. 79.)
Information
A glabrous tree. Leaves 5–13-foliolate, 9–18 in. long; leaflets rather coriaceous, alternate or subopposite, ovate-oblong or the terminal elliptical, lateral very oblique, acuminate, upper margin at the base rounded, glabrous, reticulate, entire, distinctly petiolulate, 3–6 in. long, 1 1/2–3 in. broad; petiolules 1/4– 1/2 in. Male flowers 4–5-merous, very small, about 1 line in diam., whitish, usually subsessile, in laxly branching panicles of 1/2–1 ft. or more from the axils of the upper leaves. Calyx-lobes ovate. Petals distinctly imbricate. Stamens 8 or 10, around a crenate disk. Rudiment of ovary 4-fid. Drupe fleshy, ovoid, the size of a grape, yellow, with a 1–4-celled putamen.
Distribution
Senegal Upper Guinea Perrottet!
Notes
This plant having been referred to Tapiria by M. Planchon in the Kew herbarium, this genus is stated to be African in the ‘Genera Plantarum’ of Messrs. Bentham and Hooker, but in a few young fruits attached to the Kew specimens the ovary is certainly not 1-celled and consequently must be referred to Spondieæ, although it does not appear to be a good Spondias .
