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Zanthoxylum welwitschii

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Identification
Zanthoxylum welwitschii Welw. ex Hiern [family RUTACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Fagara rubescens (Planch ex Hook.f.) Engl. [family RUTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by [?], 1962 Fagara welwitschii Engl. [family RUTACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Fagara welwitschii Engl. [family RUTACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Teclea grandifolia
  • Fagara altissima
  • Fagara welwitschii
  • Fagara rubescens
  • Zanthoxylum melanacanthum
  • Vepris grandifolia
  • Zanthoxylum welwitschii
  • Teclea welwitschii
  • Fagara bouetensis
  • Fagara klaineana

Flora

Entry for Teclea grandifolia 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
Zanthoxylum welwitschii Hiern [family RUTACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 114 (Dec. 1896). Type from Angola (Cuanza Norte).
Teclea welwitschii Hiern Verdoorn [family RUTACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1926; 408 (1926) pro parte excl. specim. Swynnerton 1322.
Teclea grandifolia Engl. [family RUTACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 23: 153 (Sept. 1896) — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 270 (1951). Syntypes from Angola (Cuanza Norte).
Information
Small evergreen tree up to 6 m. tall; branches and leaves glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 1·5–5 (6·5) cm. long, terete, sometimes slightly grooved near the apex; leaflets subsessile or with a petiolule up to 5 mm. long; lamina 7–18 x 2–7 cm., narrowly elliptic to elliptic, acuminate or acute or blunt at the apex, cuneate at the base; lateral nerves and veins numerous. Inflorescence of axillary and terminal panicles; peduncle and rhachis reddish-brown, minutely puberulous. Flowers bisexual, 4-merous, sessile, usually glomerate on the branches of the panicle; bracteoles very small, scarious, ciliolate. Sepals forming a cupuliform calyx 1·1 mm. long, including lobes 0·3 mm. long. Petals 3 × 1·1 mm., oblong, slightly imbricate in bud, reflexed. Stamens opposite the sepals, inserted at the base of a very narrow disk; filaments linear, flattened at the base, as long as the petals; anthers basifixed, 2-lobed at the base; ovary ellipsoid; style short; stigma capitate, 2-lobed. Fruit 7 × 5 mm., ovoid. Mature seeds not seen.
Habitat
Mist and riverine evergreen forest
Altitude range
800–1700 m.
1700
800
Distribution
Zambia W Mufulira, fr. x.1954, Fanshawe 1740 (K); Mwinilunga, boma, fl. 20.x.1955, Holmes 1275 (K).
Distribution (external)
Angola
Uganda
perhaps Tanganyika

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