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Syzygium sclerophyllum

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Name

Identification
Syzygium sclerophyllum Thwaites [family MYRTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Thwaites, 1859
Related name
  • Syzygium bokorense
  • Syzygium intermedium
  • Syzygium masukuense
  • Syzygium cordatum
  • Syzygium sclerophyllum
  • Syzygium micklethwaitii
  • Syzygium unrecorded

Flora

Entry for SYZYGIUM micklethwaitii subsp. micklethwaitii [family MYRTACEAE]
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, (2001) Author: B Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
SYZYGIUM micklethwaitii subsp. micklethwaitii [family MYRTACEAE]
SYZYGIUM sclerophyllum Brenan [family MYRTACEAE], in K.B. 4: 79 (1949) & T.T.C.L.: 380 (1949); Beentje in Utafiti 1: 50 (1988) & K.T.S.L.: 127 (1994), non Thwaites
Information
Leaves elliptic with ± slender petioles or if round or subcordate and ± sessile then petiole remnant narrow.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 3, 6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
1350(Kenya)–2250 m
Distribution
KENYA Teita District Taita Hills, Mbololo Hill, 31 Dec. 1971, Faden et al. 71/1002 & 8 km NNE of Ngerenyi, Ngangao, 15 Sept. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4360! & summit of Sagalla Hill, 4 Feb. 1953, Bally 8711!TANZANIA Lushoto District W Usambaras, between Magamba and Gologolo, 6 Nov. 1947, Brenan & Greenway 8295! & 8296! & Matondwe, near summit of mountain above Kwai, 29 May 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 2811!TANZANIA Morogoro District S Ngurus, Ruhamba peak, 2 Apr. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1985!
Notes
Mabberley & Salehe 1495 (Kilosa District, Ukaguru Mts, Mamiwa Forest Reserve, summit of Mamiwa, 16 Aug. 1972, in mist forest at 2310 m – a dominant tree with Polyscias ) has to be regarded as a form of subsp. micklethwaitii but the inflorescence is pedunculate and has longer axes. Mgaza 611 (W Usambaras, Shagayu Forest, 30 Sept. 1964) with leaves up to 13.5 cm long, 8.5 cm wide is probably from a sapling or sucker shoot. There is great variation in the prominence of the venation in herbarium specimens from obscure to clear-cut and very prominent, correlated with a dull to very shiny surface e.g. in Faden et al. 386 from Kenya, Mbololo Hill, 13 May 1985.

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