Teclea nobilisDel. [family RUTACEAE], (1843). Fig. 116. [type as above]
Information
Shrub or tree; bark smooth, grey; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate or rarely subopposite, (1–)3-foliolate, glabrous; petiole 1.5–8 cm long, terete; leaflets lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–18 x 1.5–5.5 cm, acute to acuminate or rarely obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base into petiolule up to 1 cm long, entire. Panicles often contracted and raceme-like. Petals yellowish, 2.5–4 mm long. Male flowers with 4(–5) stamens; pistillode glabrous. Female flowers with 4 or 5 staminodes; ovary subglobose, glabrous; stigma disk-shaped, 1 mm in diam. Drupe obovoid, 6–11.5 x 5–6 mm long, glabrous, red.
Range
N1–3 Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, East Africa and southwards to Zimbabwe
Baran, barrho, buro (Som.). The Somali plants are extreme in their small leaves (leaflets often c. 5–6 x 1.5–2 cm) and small flowers, and may merit taxonomic recognition at some level.
