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Zanthoxylum rubescens

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Name

Identification
Fagara afzelii Engl. [family RUTACEAE ] Verified by Keay,R.W.J., 1955 Zanthoxylum rubescens (Planch. ex Hook.f.) Engl. [family RUTACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Zanthoxylum attiense
  • Fagara rubescens
  • Zanthoxylum melanacanthum
  • Fagara attiensis
  • Fagara membranifolia
  • Fagara afzelii
  • Fagara melanacantha
  • Zanthoxylum rubescens
Common name
  • ka sãnd (JB) ondiolé (JB) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • lianguiti (RdoF) (GUINEA-BISSAU, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • gnotj (CHOP fide JMD) ndenguidek (CHOP fide JMD) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ndenguidek (CHOP fide JMD) gnotj (CHOP fide JMD) horompσolé ala (AS fide JMD) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for ZANTHOXYLUM rubescens Planch. [family RUTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 303, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
ZANTHOXYLUM rubescens Planch. [family RUTACEAE], in Fl. Nigrit. 270.
Information
A glabrous prickly shrub of 6 ft. Branches reddish, with acute recurved prickles. Leaves pinnate, 8–10 in., common petiole aculeolate; leaflets “about 11,” broadly oval or oblong-elliptical with a narrow obtuse acumen, cuneate or rounded at the base, entire or obsoletely serrulate above, 2–3 1/2 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. broad. Male flowers whitish, in large, many-flowered, somewhat pyramidal, minutely puberulous, terminal panicles; tetramerous. Pedicels slender, about equalling the flower. Sepals minute, rotundate, ciliolate. Petals rather thin, elliptic-lanceolate, slightly imbricate. Rudiment of ovary minute. Female flower and fruit not seen.
Distribution
Cape Coast Upper Guinea T. Vogel!Upper Guinea (? Sierra Leone, Afzelius .)

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