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Treculia obovoidea

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Name

Identification
Treculia staudtii Not on sheet. [family MORACEAE ] Verified by Berg, C.C., Treculia obovoidea N.E.Br. [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Ancoba ficifolia
  • Treculia brieyi
  • Treculia obovoidea
  • Acanthotreculia winkleri
  • Oncoba ficifolia
  • Treculia staudtii
  • Treculia acuminata
Common name
  • oken (Catterall; Keay) (NIGERIA, BOKYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ogoni (auctt.) (NIGERIA, EJAGHAM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for TRECULIA obovoidea N. E. Br. [family MORACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 2, page 17, (1916) Author: (By J. HUTCHINSON AND A. B. Rendle)
Names
TRECULIA obovoidea N. E. Br. [family MORACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 361.
TRECULIA Staudtii Engl. [family MORACEAE], in Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. i. zum ii.-iv. 120, and Monogr. Morac. Afr. 33, t. xiv. fig. A.
TRECULIA Staudtii Engl. var. angustifolia [family MORACEAE], l.c. 34.
Information
A tree 30 ft. high; young branchlets at first very minutely puberulous. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, obtusely and rather abruptly acuminate, slightly narrowed to or subcuneate at the apex, 3–7 in. long, 1–3 1/2 in. broad, chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves, veins, petiole and stipules as in T. acuminata. Male heads and bracts as in T. acuminata, but the former ellipsoid or obovoid, 1/4– 1/2 in. long, up to 5 lin. in diam. Basal bracts rather lax and distant, ovate, acute, closely puberulous outside, ciliolate. Perianth tubular, lobed at the apex, lobes acute, shortly ciliate. Stamens mostly 3.
Distribution
Nigeria Upper Guinea Old Calabar River, Mann, 2303! Thomson, 104! Oban, Talbot, 2316a! 2321! 2335!Cameroons Upper Guinea Johann Albrechtshöhe, Staudt, 633! 685! 934! Lolodorf, Staudt, 270! Bipinde, Zenker, 2526! 3776!
Notes
I have not seen an example of the genus Acanthotreculia, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 546 (A. Winkleri, Engl. l.c. 548, fig. 2), founded on female material collected by Winkler (1283) and Zenker (2295) in the Cameroons; but Engler's figure depicts a plant which I have little doubt is the female of Treculia obovoidea, N. E. Br. The same prickly female receptacle occurs in T. acuminata, Baill., but in that species, as in the male heads, it is globose and not ellipsoid as in Engler's plant. The male receptacles of T. obovoidea are, however, ellipsoid or obovoid, and a corresponding shape might be expected in the case of the female, a condition which is fulfilled in Engler's Acanthotreculia.

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