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Zanthoxylum macrophyllum

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Zanthoxylum gilletii (De Wild.) P.G.Waterman [family RUTACEAE]
Type? of Zanthoxylum macrophyllum Nutt. [family RUTACEAE]
Zanthoxylum gilletii (De Wild.) P.G.Waterman [family RUTACEAE]
Zanthoxylum gilletii (De Wild.) P.G.Waterman [family RUTACEAE]
Filed as Zanthoxylum macrophyllum Nutt. [family RUTACEAE]
Zanthoxylum gilletii (De Wild.) P.G.Waterman [family RUTACEAE]
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Identification
Zanthoxylum macrophyllum Oliv. [family RUTACEAE ] Zanthoxylum gilletii (De Wild.) P.G.Waterman [family RUTACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Zanthoxylum tricarpum
  • Zanthoxylum gilletii
  • Zanthoxylum macrophyllum

Flora

Entry for Fagara macrophylla Oliv. Engl. [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
Fagara macrophylla Oliv. Engl. [family RUTACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3, 4: 118 (1896). — White, F.F.N.R.: 170 (1962). Type from Principe.
Zanthoxylum macrophyllum Oliv. [family RUTACEAE], F.T.A. 1: 304 (1868). Type as above.
Fagara inaequalis Engl. [family RUTACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 54: 303 (1917). — Gilbert, F.C.B. 7: 88 (1958). Syntypes from southern Cameroons.
Information
Tree 10–30 m. tall; trunk usually with aculeate bosses; branches glabrous, aculeate; aculei 2–5 mm. long, conical, reddish. Leaves 20–60 cm. long; petiole 3–15 cm. long, broadly channelled or flat above at the base; rhachis 2–4 mm. in diam., terete; leaflets coriaceous, with petiolules 2–7 mm. long, alternate or subopposite; lamina (5·5) 8–17 × 3·5–5·5 cm., broadly elliptic to elliptic, gland-dots almost inconspicuous, attenuate or abruptly acuminate and obtuse at the apex, margin entire or slightly crenulate, very asymmetric at the base; lateral nerves 8–14 pairs. Flowers not seen from our area. Infructescence of rather stout terminal and sometimes also axillary panicles, up to 20 × 14 cm. Fruit 3·5 mm. in diam., sessile or subsessile or shortly stipitate, subglobose, glandular-foveolate, with a very small 5-lobed persistent calyx. Seed 2 mm. in diam., globose, black, shiny.
Habitat
In evergreen, riverine and swamp forests.
Distribution
Zambia W Mwinilunga, fr. 15;ii.1938, Milne-Redhead 4586 (BM; K).Zimbabwe E Chirinda Forest, st. 24.x.1947, Wild 2197 (COI; K; PRE; SRGH).Zambia N Fort Rosebery Distr., near Samfya, st. 31.viii.1952, Angus 354 (BM; FHO; K).
Distribution (external)
Cameroons
Congo
north of Angola

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