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Teclea rogersii

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Name

Identification
Teclea rogersii Mendonça [family RUTACEAE ] Vepris rogersii (Mendonça) Mziray [family RUTACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Vepris rogersii
  • Teclea rogersii

Flora

Entry for Teclea rogersii Mendonça [family RUTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 1, page 180, (1963) Author: F. A. Mendoça
Names
Teclea rogersii Mendonça [family RUTACEAE], in Mem. Junt. Invest. Ultram., Ser. 2, 28: 85 (1961). Type: N. Rhodesia, Kalomo, Rogers 26015 (K, holotype).
Teclea fischeri [family RUTACEAE], sensu White, F.F.N.R.: 170 (1962) pro parte quoad specim. White 2473.
Information
Evergreen shrub up to 3 m. tall; glabrous in all parts. Leaves petiolate, 3-foliolate; petiole 0·7–3 cm. long, broadly grooved; leaflets sessile; lamina 2–8·5 (12) × 1–2·6 (4) cm., coriaceous, elliptic, apex obtuse or rounded or sometimes shortly and broadly acuminate or sometimes emarginate, cuneate at the base; nerves and veins numerous, quite conspicuous on the upper surface, flat beneath. Inflorescence of axillary sessile glomerules, sometimes also on older leafless stems. Flowers 4-merous; buds 4·5 mm. long, narrow. Sepals 4, united into a cupuliform calyx 1 mm. long with short truncate lobes. Male flowers: petals 4, 4·5 × 0·8 mm., very narrow, slightly imbricate; stamens 4, opposite the sepals; filaments filiform, as long as the petals; anthers basifixed, 2-lobed at the base; disk obsolete, ovary vestigial, conical, glabrous; style slender. Female flowers: not seen. Fruit 11 × 7 mm., scarlet (fide Miller), black when dry, smooth; endocarp rather thin. Seed ellipsoid; testa membranous; cotyledons thick; embryo very small.
Habitat
In dry rocky places in the Colophospermum mopane belt of the Zambezi and Sabi basins.
Range
Known only from our area.
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Ndanga, north and west of Sabi-Lundi Junction, bud iv.1955, Middleton-Stokes 16 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Victoria Falls, fl. 18.xi.1949, Wild 3085 (K; USC; SRGH).Zambia S Siamambo Forest Reserve, 6 km. SE. of Choma, bud 9.ix.1957, Angus 1700 (FHO; K).Mozambique T Lupata Gorge, fl. x.1868, Kirk (K).Zimbabwe N Lomagundi, Hunyani R., near Sinoia, st. 16.v.1952, Pardy in GHS 5926 (K; SRGH).Zambia E Fort Jameson to Lundazi, km. 48, bud 26.iv.1952, White 2473 (FHO; K).

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