APORRHIZA paniculata Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]

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, (1998) Author: DAVIES & B. VERDCOURT
Names
APORRHIZA paniculata Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Sitz. Akad. Wiss. München 8: 339 (1878) & in E.P. IV, 165: 1135, fig. 31 (1933); F.P.S. 2: 336 (1952); Hauman in F.C.B. 9: 319 (1960); Verdc. in Journ. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. 24 (106): 65 (1963); Fouilloy & Hallé in Fl. Cameroun 16: 157 (1973) & in Fl. Gabon 23: 157 (1973) (but not occurring in Cameroon or Gabon); Beentje, K.T.S.L.: 414, fig. (1994). Type: Sudan, Nabambissoo, Schweinfurth 3041 (B†, holo., K!, P, iso.)
APORRHIZA nitida Gilg [family SAPINDACEAE], in V.E. 3(2): 280 (1921); Milne-Redh. in K.B. 1931: 272 (1931); Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 1136 (1933); T.T.C.L.: 556 (1949); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 721 (1958); Hauman in F.C.B. 9: 318 (1960); F.F.N.R.: 224 (1962); Haerdi in Acta Trop., suppl. 8: 123 (1964); Exell in F.Z. 2: 514, t. 103 (1966); Fouilloy & Hallé in Fl. Cameroun 16: 156 (1973) & in Fl. Gabon 23: 156 (1973). Type: Malawi, Blantyre, Buchanan in Medley Wood 6992 (B†, holo., K!, iso.)
Information
Tree 4.5–22 m. tall; bark smooth, grey; young parts and fruits with a short, velvety, reddish or grey-green pubescence. Petiole 1–9 cm. long, woody; rhachis 10–36 cm. long; leaflets in 3–5 pairs, subopposite; petiolules fleshy, sparsely pilose; blade oblong-elliptic or elliptic, the terminal pair largest, 9–25 cm. long, 5–9 cm. wide, the other pairs progressively smaller, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base acute, coriaceous, glabrous throughout or some hairs on the veins beneath; lateral veins in 8–11 pairs, prominent beneath, impressed above. Inflorescence-axes 20–50 cm. long; branches 2–16 cm. long. Calyx-lobes green, 2 mm. long, silky hairy; petals yellow or white, equalling the sepals, claw 1 mm. long, limb 1.5 mm. long, ovate, scale bilobed, ciliate. Stamens 7–8; filaments bent into a zigzag in bud, pilose throughout, 2.8 mm. long at maturity. Ovary rudiment in male flowers similar to but much smaller than the ovary. Mericarps 2, semicircular in outline, compressed, 1.5–2 cm. long, 1–1.2 cm. wide, densely finely adpressed-pubescent, internally glabrous and shining. Seed black, ± 1.3 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, 4/5 covered by an orange aril. Fig. 5.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 3, 4, 6, 7; Z
Altitude range
20–1200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Sheldrick’s Falls, 2 Apr. 1968, Magogo & Glover 615! & Marere pumping station, 3 Apr. 1968, Magogo & Glover 753!KENYA Tana R., plot 15B, 24 Nov. 1982, F. Hughes !TANZANIA Handeni District R. Chazi on Turiani–Mahonda road, 4 Nov. 1947, Parry in F.H. 2208!TANZANIA Mpanda District 16 km. S. of Mpanda, Sept. 1961, Procter 1941!TANZANIA Uzaramo District Vikindu Forest Reserve Aug. 1953 Paulo 123!TANZANIA Zanzibar , Jozani Forest Reserve, 29 Mar. 1981, Mturi 367!
Distribution (external)
; Nigeria
Central African Republic
Zaire
Sudan
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Notes
A. nitida and A. paniculata were separated on the colour of the indumentum, being rusty or grey-green but it varies and is not correlated with any other character. Verdcourt appears to have been the first to combine them. The authority of A. nitida is usually given as Gilg ex Milne-Redh. but there appears to be enough in Gilg’s description to validate the name.
APORRHIZA paniculata Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
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