Isotype of Macaranga paxiiPrain [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Schwartz, O.,
Related name
Mareya lognium
Macaranga monandra
Macaranga paxii
Macaranga zenkeri
Flora
Entry for MACARANGA Paxii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
MACARANGA PaxiiPrain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 127.
Information
A shrub or small tree; branches sparingly armed with spines, glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, long-acuminate, base rounded, margin deeply and distantly toothed, 4–8 in. long, 3–4 in. wide, membranous, pubescent on the nerves when young especially beneath, ultimately glabrous except for a few long white hairs on the nerves beneath; petiole 3–4 in. long; stipules ovate, acute, with ciliate margins, over 1 in. long. Male flowers in rather lax lateral panicles; bracts suborbicular, obtuse, deep crenate, subtending several flowers; buds globose, minute, puberulous. Stamens 2, occasionally 1. Female flowers unknown.
