Name
Identification
Uvaria stuhlmannii Engl. [family ANNONACEAE ] Verified by Engler, Uvaria kirkii Oliv. ex Engl. & Diels [family ANNONACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
- Uvaria kirkii
- Uvaria stuhlmannii
Flora
Entry for UVARIA kirkii Hook. f. [family ANNONACEAE]
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, (1971) Author: B. Verdcourt
Names
UVARIA kirkii Hook. f. [family ANNONACEAE], in Bot. Mag. 98, t. 6006 (1872); Engl. & Diels in E.M. 6: 19 (1901), pro parte; T.T.C.L.: 45 (1949); Robson in F.Z. 1: 110 (1960); K.T.S.: 39 (1961). Type: a specimen grown at Kew from seeds collected at Kilwa [Quiloa], Tanganyika, by Kirk (K, holo.? not preserved, but a sheet of the species from Kilwa, collected by Kirk is at K)
UVARIA stuhlmannii Engl. [family ANNONACEAE], P.O.A. C: 178 (1895). Types: Tanganyika, “Sansibar-Küstenland” & “Sansibar-Insel”, no collectors cited (B, syn.)
Information
A small shrub 0.9–2 m. tall or sometimes scrambling to about 8 m.; young branchlets with rather coarse ferruginous hairs but glabrous when older, ridged, purplish-grey, lenticellate. Leaf-blades elliptic to oblong or obovate, 2.7–10.5(–12) cm. long, (2–)3–5(–7) cm. wide, obtuse, rounded or slightly emarginate at the apex, rounded or cordate at the base, coriaceous, mostly bluish- or greyish-green and glabrous above save for a few hairs on the impressed midrib, finely pubescent beneath with small stellate hairs and also some larger ferruginous stellate hairs when young, but almost or quiteglabrous when old; main nerves mostly impressed above and slightly-prominent beneath, but often flat and with the venation mostly obscure; petiole 2–5 mm. long, channelled, stellate-pubescent. Flowers rather large, up to 7.5 cm. in diameter, terminal or leaf-opposed, solitary; pedicels 0–3 mm. long, tomentose with pale brown or ferruginous stellate hairs; bracteoles lanceolate, 5–7 mm. long, 2–4; mm. wide, tomentose. Sepals ovate, 6–7 mm. long, 6.5 mm. wide, obtuse or acute, united at the base for up to a third of their length, entirely covering the petals in bud, tomentose on both surfaces with pale brown or ferruginous stellate hairs. Petals cream or straw-coloured, tinged green at the base or all green, obovate-orbicular to narrowly elliptic-rhomboid, the inner sometimes rather narrower, (1.5–) 3–4.5 cm. long, 0.9–3.3 cm. wide, obtuse, rounded or slightly acute, thin, finely tomentose with stellate hairs outside, mostly glabrescent inside save at apex. Stamens 1–2 mm. long, the prolongation of the connective thick, truncate or rounded. Carpels 10–20, tomentose, 10–12-ovuled. Fruiting pedicels 4–8 mm. long; monocarps 5–11, oblong-cylindrical, (1–)1.7–2.5 cm. long, 0.8–1.1 cm. wide, (3–)5–8-seeded, slightly constricted between the seeds, sometimes apiculate, densely tomentose with yellowish-fawn or grey stellate hairs, rugose or somewhat verrucose; stipes 4–8 mm. long. Seeds shining brown, variously shaped, mostly slightly curved, with traces of 3 angles or compressed, 7–10 mm. long, 4–5 mm. wide, 2.5–3.5 mm. thick, shortly divided into connivent lobes at the hilar end. Fig. 2/6, p. 11.
Range
DISTR. K7; T3, 6, 8; Z; P
Altitude range
0–450 m.
Distribution
KENYA Lamu District Lamu–Mambosasa road, Oct. 1936, Dale in F.D. 3523! & Witu Forest, Rawlins in E.A.H. 25/58/2! & Mkunumbi, Mar. 1957, Rawlins 361!TANGANYIKA Tanga District Ngomeni, 28 July 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3496!;TANGANYIKA Rufiji District Mafia I., 1 Apr. 1933, Wallace 726!TANGANYIKA Kilwa, 10 Jan. 1867, Kirk 102!ZANZIBAR Zanzibar I. , Mazizini [Massazine], 25 Nov. 1959, Faulkner 2410! & 24 Apr. 1961, Faulkner 2815!ZANZIBAR Pemba I. , near Vitongoji, 24 Jan. 1933, Vaughan 2079!
Distribution (external)
; Mozambique; has been cultivated in Jamaica
Notes
This species is recorded from the Nairobi District in K.T.S., but I have seen no material so far away from the coast. In their original monograph (E.M. 6: 19 (1901)), Engler and Diels quite misunderstood U. fruticosa Engl., which they synonymized with U. kirkii, and U. decidua, which they considered was a species very closely allied to U. kirkii; the former synonymy is repeated in T.T.C.L. Peter 31562 (Uzaramo, 29 Oct. 1925) has the leaf-margins markedly crinkled.