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Encephalartos poggei

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Identification
Encephalartos lemarinelianus De Wild. & T.Durand [family ZAMIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Encephalartos poggei Asch. [family ZAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Encephalartos lemarinelianus
  • Encephalartos poggei

Flora

Entry for ENCEPHALARTOS Poggei Aschers. [family ZAMIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 2, page 344, (1917) Author: (By D. PRAIN.)
Names
ENCEPHALARTOS Poggei Aschers. [family ZAMIACEAE], in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. xx. (1878), xxxv. —De Wild. Ic. Hort. Then. iv. 176, 184, and Not. Pl. Util. Congo, i. 388, 396; Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. ii. 84.
ENCEPHALARTOS lemarinelianus De Wild. & Durand [family ZAMIACEAE], in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxix. 80–82; De Wild. Études Fl. Bas-et Moyen-Congo, i. 9, tt. 23, 24, Not. Pl. Util. Congo, i. 390, tt. 25, 26, 28, figs. I, II, Pl. Laurent 12 (lemarinellianus), Miss. É. Laurent, 364, figs. 56, 57, 59 (lemarinellianus), and Ic. Hort. Then. iv. 176, 183; Gentil, Rev. Hort. Belg. 1904, 7, and Gard. Chron. 1904, xxxv. 370, figs. 164, 165; André, Rev. Hort. 1904, 58, fig. 23; Bois, Rev. Hort. 1907, 177, figs. 60, 61; Thonner, Blütenpfl. Afr. t. 1; Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. ii. 84; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 650.
Information
Stem short or very short, ellipsoid or subcylindric, casually forked, 1–2 ft. high, 8 in. thick, closely covered with alternating scales and persistent imbricating leaf-bases clothed with shaggy grey tomentum. Leaves 2 3/4–4 ft. long, 8–10 in. wide above the middle, glaucescent, petiole and rhachis subcylindric, clothed at first with shaggy tomentum which partially persists near the base; pinnules rigidly coriaceous, 20–60 pairs, linear-lanceolate, very slightly falcate, 4–6 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. wide, abruptly slightly unequally narrowed at the base, apex acute, pungent, margin usually entire occasionally with 2–3 diverging teeth along the lower edge, and with 1–4 diverging teeth mainly near the base rarely entire along the upper edge. Male cones peduncled, greenish or orange-yellow, narrow cylindric, 6–8 in. long, 2 1/2 in. wide; peduncles 4 in. long, nearly glabrous; scales spreading, deltoid, fertile portion 3/4 in. long, not much longer than broad, apex rhomboid, 1 in. across, the lateral angles acute, the others very obtuse, ridged and faintly faceted, not umbonate. Female cone subsessile, green, at length becoming pale salmon-coloured, oblong-ellipsoid, 8–9 in. long, 4 1/2 in. wide; apex of scales wide-rhomboid, 1 3/4–2 in. across, 2/3– 3/4 in. deep, lateral angles explanate, upper and lower very obtuse, surface divided into 3–4 facets, centre raised but not umbonate. Seeds ovoid, faintly angled, about 1 in. long; outer coat brownish-red.
Distribution
Congo South Central Lualaba-Kasai district; plateau between the Luisa and the Casserigi Rivers, Pogge; Bena-ganza, near the Luabo River, Pogge; right bank of the Lubi River, Lemarinel ! left bank of the Lulua River, near Luluabourg, Gentil; Kanda-Kanda, Gentil; between Kanda-Kanda and Lusambo, Gentil; without precise locality, Pynaert.
Notes
The Tchiondo of the Kanioka, Biondo of the Baluba, Lulondo or Kalaba Kabo of the Lulua, this species has no economic value; it occurs in dry savannahs and survives the annual grass-fires (Gentil). The leaves are deciduous, disappearing during the hot season; the fresh foliage springs up when the rains commence (Laurent). The plant has been introduced to cultivation through the efforts of Lemarinel, Laurent, Gentil and Pynaert. Lemarinel's plant has been treated by De Wildeman as distinct from that of Pogge, perhaps owing to De Wildeman's belief that Pogge's plant is an Angolan species which only occurs outside the limits of the Belgian Congo. The locality in which Pogge originally found this Cycad is, however, within the Lualaba-Kasai district, between the Kasai and the Sankuru, not far south of Mussumba; Pogge met with it again, prior to its re-discovery by Lemarinel, in a locality within the same district but 150 miles further north (Lemarinel); so far, it has not been found in Angola (Pogge). Ascherson describes the apex of the scales of the female cone as distinctly umbonate; they are, as De Wildeman remarks, raised in the centre, but there is no umbo such as that which characterises the scales of the female cone in E. Barteri and in E. Hildebrandtii .

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