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Streblus usambarensis

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Identification
Streblus usambarensis (Engl.) CC Berg [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Burrows, J.E.,
Related name
  • Streblus usambarensis
  • Sloetiopsis usambarensis
  • Neosloetiopsis kamerunensis
Common name
  • bubwi (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Streblus usambarensis Engl. C.C. Berg [family MORACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 6, page 13, (1991) Author: C. C. Berg
Names
Sloetiopsis usambarensis Engl. [family MORACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 39: 573, tab. on p. 574 (1907).—Rendle in F.T.A. 6, 2: 77 (1916).—C.C. Berg in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 47: 364, t. 23 (1977); in Fl. Cameroun 28: 12, t. 3 (1985); in F.T.E.A., Moraceae: 8 (1989). Type as above.
Streblus usambarensis Engl. C.C. Berg [family MORACEAE], in Proc. Konink. Ned. Akad. Weten., ser. C,91: 357 (1988). TAB. 8. Type from Tanzania.
Neosloetiopsis kamerunensis Engl. [family MORACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 51: 426, t. 1 (1914).—Rendle in F.T.A. 6, 2: 78 (1916).—Hauman in F.C.B. 1: 82 (1948).—Keay in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1: 595 (1958). Type from Cameroon.
Information
Shrub or small tree, up to 5 m. tall. Leaf lamina oblong to elliptic (lanceolate), (1)2–16 x (0.5)1.5–6 cm., subcoriaceous; apex acuminate to subcaudate, base rounded to acute, margin, at least towards the apex, crenate to serrate-dentate or subentire; both surfaces almost glabrous; lateral veins 4–13 pairs, with the tertiary venation reticulate. Petiole 2–7 mm. long; stipules 2–8 mm. long, often subpersistent. Staminate inflorescences: spike 5–50 mm. long, c. 4 mm. thick, subsessile or with a peduncle up to 1.5 mm. long. Pistillate inflorescences: peduncle 2–3 mm. long, to 5 mm. long in fruit; tepals c. 2 mm. long, to 5 mm. in fruit; stigmas (2)6–8 mm. long. Fruit c. 10 mm. long; endocarp body subglobose, c. 10 mm. in diam., black.
Habitat
Forest and forest edges and along streams
Range
from Guinea to E. Zaire, SE. Kenya and NE. Tanzania
Altitude range
0–1000 m.
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Distribution
Mozambique MS Inhamitanga Forest, Inhamitanga, iv.1970, Tinley 1912 (K; PRE; SRGH).

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