Entry for TRECULIA obovoidea N. E. Br. [family MORACEAE]
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.
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.