FLABELLARIA paniculata Cavan. [family MALPIGHIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1968) Author: E. LAUNERT (British Museum (Natural History))
Names
FLABELLARIA paniculata Cavan. [family MALPIGHIACEAE], Diss. 9: 436, t. 264 (1790); Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 282 (1868); Engl. in Z.A.E. 2: 435 (1912) & in V.E. 3(1): 826, fig. 391 (1915); Niedenzu in E.P. IV. 141: 38, t. 10 (1928); T.T.C.L.: 296 (1949); Exell & Mendonça in C.F.A. 1: 250 (1951); F.P.S. 2: 44 (1952); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 353 (1958); Wilczek in F.C.B. 7: 215, fig. 3 (1958). Type: Sierra Leone, Smeathman in Herb. Thouin
Hiraea pinnata Willd. [family MALPIGHIACEAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 743 (1799), nom. illegit. Type: as for species
Triopteris pinnata (Willd.) Poir. [family ], Encycl. Meth. Bot. 8: 108 (1808)
Triaspis flabellaria Juss. [family MALPIGHIACEAE], Malpighi. Synops., in Ann. Sci. Nat., sér. 2, 13: 268 (1840) & in Archiv. Mus. Paris 3: 507 (1843); Hook., Niger Flora: 247 (1849), nom. illegit. Type: as for species
Flabellaria paniculata Engl. var. mollis [family MALPIGHIACEAE], P.O.A. C: 232 (1895); T.T.C.L.: 296 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Bukoba District, Stuhlmann (B, several syntypes †)
Information
A tall climber up to 15 m. in length; stems up to 10 cm. or slightly more in diameter, lenticellate, younger ones with a ± dense grey or yellowish silky indumentum. Leaf-lamina broadly elliptic, ovate, ovate-subcircular, or rarely lanceolate, 5–15 × 4–10 cm., obtuse, subacute or apiculate, rounded or subcordate at the base, subcoriaceous, upper surface usually glabrous, lower surface appressed silky-tomentose; lateral nerves 4–6 pairs; petiole 1–2.5 cm. long, canaliculate, tomentose. Inflorescences up to 20 cm. long, ± lax; bracts oblanceolate, 3–7 mm. long, deciduous or ± persistent; bracteoles very small, elliptic, ± persistent; pedicels up to 5 mm. long. Flowers ± 1 cm. in diameter. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 5–6.5 mm. long, usually reflexed, tomentose outside. Petals oblanceolate, up to 7 mm. long, entire, glabrous, rounded at the apex. Anthers elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 1.25–1.75 mm. long; filaments 2–3 mm. long, glabrous. Styles 3–4 mm. long. Samara 3–4 cm. in diameter, usually green. Fig. 7.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4; K5; T1 southern Sudan Republic, Congo Republic and Angola west to Senegal
Altitude range
1150–1650m.
Distribution
KENYA N. Kavirondo District Kakamega Forest, Dec. 1956, Verdcourt in E.A.H. 11554!TANGANYIKA Bukoba District near Kitwe, Oct. 1931, Haarer 2214! & Kabale, Sept.-Oct. 1935, Gillman 463 ! & Rubare Forest Reserve, Feb. 1958, Procter 833 !UGANDA Kigezi District Ishasha Gorge, May 1950, Purseglove 3411!UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe, Oct. 1931, Eggeling 26 in F.D. 192 ! & 21 km. on [Kampala-] Entebbe road, Nov. 1937, Chandler 2030 !
Notes
Due to its wide distribution and its climbing habit the leaves of this species show a wide range of variability in shape and size, but it seems that most of the East African plants are forming a cline with a tendency towards a ± lanceolate leaf-shape. If this can be proved a constant character when more material is available, these forms may be regarded as a distinct taxon.
FLABELLARIA paniculata Cavan. [family MALPIGHIACEAE]
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