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Zanthoxylum holtzianum

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Filed as Zanthoxylum holtzianum (Engl.) P.G.Waterman [family RUTACEAE]

Type of Zanthoxylum holtzianum (Engl.) P.G.Waterman ssp. tenuipedicellatum Kokwaro [family RUTACEAE]

Holotype of Fagara somalensis Chiov. [family RUTACEAE]

Zanthoxylum holtzianum (Engl.) P.G.Waterman [family RUTACEAE]

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Name

Identification

Zanthoxylum holtzianum (Engl.) P.G.Waterman [family RUTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Kokwaro JO, 1975

Flora

Entry for ZANTHOXYLUM holtzianum (Engl.) Waterm. [family RUTACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Reference Sources

Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

ZANTHOXYLUM holtzianum (Engl.) Waterm. [family RUTACEAE], (1975).

Fagara somalensis Chiov. [family RUTACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, "Baddada", Senni 223 (FT holo., K iso.).

Shrub or small tree; trunk with corky bosses; branchlets usually glabrous, usually armed with straight or slightly recurved prickles. Leaves 7–9-foliolate; rhachis unarmed or rarely with 1–2 prickles; leaflets oblong-elliptic to ovate, 6–15 x 2.5–6.5 cm, obtuse to shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, with crenulate to minutely serrulate margins, the lateral leaflets with 1.5–4 mm long petiolules. Panicles terminal, ± much-branched, with mostly clustered 4-merous flowers on pedicels 1–4 mm long or more. Petals white, 1.5–3 mm long. Female flowers with solitary carpel. Follicle on short stipe, globose, 4–6 mm in diam.

Distribution (external)

Fil-fil awliyaad (Som.). The type of Fagara somalensis is the only collection known from Somalia. It belongs to subsp. holtziana. Subsp. tenuipedicellata Kokwaro, sometimes regarded as a distinct species, is confined to eastern Tanzania.