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Strombosia scheffleri

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Identification
Strombosia scheffleri Engl. [family OLACACEAE ]
Related name
  • Strombosia scheffleri
Common name
  • ifundu (AJC) (WEST CAMEROONS, KPE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for STROMBOSIA scheffleri Engl. [family OLACACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1968) Author: G. Ll. Lucas
Names
STROMBOSIA scheffleri Engl. [family OLACACEAE], [in N.B.G.B. 3: 84 (1900), nomen nudum ] & 5, App. 21: 4, figs. A–C (1909); Louis & J. Léon. in F.C.B. 1: 270 (1948); I.T.U., ed. 2: 282 (1952); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 678 (1958); K.T.S.: 343 (1961); Garcia in F.Z. 2: 334, t. 67 (1963). Types: Tanganyika, E. Usambara Mts., Derema, Scheffler 100 (BM, EA, K, isolecto.!) & Cameroun Republic, Bouea [Buea], Deistel 456 (B, syn.!) & Uganda, Toro, Dawe 356 (K, syn.!) & Congo Republic, Kivu Province, Semliki R., Mildbraed 2735 & Mildbraed 1211 (B, syn.)
STROMBOSIA minor Engl. [family OLACACEAE], in E.J. 43: 168 (1909). Type: Tanganyika, E. Usambara Mts., Amani, Zimmermann 965 (EA, iso. !)
STROMBOSIA toroënsis S. Moore [family OLACACEAE], in J.B. 58: 224 (1920). Type: Uganda, Toro District, Mpanga Forest, Bagshawe 1098 (BM, nolo. !)
STROMBOSIA grandifolia [family OLACACEAE], [sensu I.T.U.: 157 (1940), non Benth.]
Information
Large trees up to 30 m. high, straight-boled; bark yellow-green to grey, flaking in irregular patches; young branches often drooping, green, slightly fluted. Petiole 1–3 cm. long, usually deeply canaliculate; leaf-blade sub-coriaceous, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 6–38 cm. long, 4–10 cm. wide, acute to subacute, rounded to broadly cuneate at the base; secondary veins (4–)5–7(–10) pairs, ± impressed above and prominent beneath; tertiary veins prominent beneath, ± parallel with one another, running directly between secondary veins. Inflorescence axillary or extra-axillary, fasciculate; pedicels short, up to 5 mm. long. Flowers white to yellowish-cream. Calyx-tube small, adnate to ovary, having 5 small deltoid free lobes lost only at maturity. Petals oblong-linear, 3–5 mm. long, 1–1.5 mm. wide, upper inner half villous, practically glabrous outside. Stamen-filaments adnate to petals for at least three-quarters of their length. Ovary with disk covering apex of the ovary in a cone-like structure, ridged; style 2–4 mm. long; stigma usually 3-lobed. Fruits ± ellipsoidal, 2–3 cm. long, 1.2 cm. across, black when ripe, bearing a circular depression at the apex up to 7 mm. in diameter, from the centre of which arises the remains of the persistent style. Fig. 4.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K1, 4, 5, 7; T1, 3, 6, 7 westwards to Nigeria and southwards into Angola and Mozambique
Altitude range
800–2500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Meru, 21 Feb. 1922, Fries 1718 ! & Battiscombe 1308 !KENYA Teita Hills, Ngangao, 15 Sept. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4354 !TANGANYIKA Bukoba District Kiao I., 17 Aug. 1934, Oillman 103 !TANGANYIKA E. Usambara Mts., Kwamkoro–Sangerawe, 24 Oct. 1929, Greenway 1792 !UGANDA W. Nile District Nyapea [Neapea], Apr. 1940, Eggeling 3896!UGANDA Mbale District Elgon above Butandiga, Feb. 1940, St. Clair-Thomson in Eggeling 3940!UGANDA Masaka District Sese Is., Sozi, Dec. 1922, Maitland 431 !
Notes
The size and arrangement of the leaves vary considerably in the same tree, depending on their relative position. In Drummond & Hemsley 2412, for example, the lower leaves measure up to 37 cm. long with the interpetiolar distance being about 15 cm., whereas the upper branches bear leaves up to 7 cm. long, with an interpetiolar distance of only about 1 cm., the leaves tending to be folded about the midrib.

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