PLEIOCARPA pycnantha (K. Schum.) Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]

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, (2002) Author: E.A. OMINO
Names
PLEIOCARPA pycnantha (K. Schum.) Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in F.T.A. 4, 1: 99 (1902); I.T.U. ed. 2: 29 (1952); Pichon in Bull. Soc. Brot. sér. 2 (27): 128, t. 4/1 (1953); Huber in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 63 (1963); Hamilton, Field Guide Uganda For. Trees: 164 (1981); Kupicha in F.Z. 7 (2): 432, t. 99 (1985); K.T.S.L.: 482, ill. (1994); Omino in Wageningen Agric. Univ. Pap. 96 (1): 146 (1996). Type: Uganda, Masaka District, Sese Is., Stuhlmann 1216 (B†, holo., K!, fragm., iso.)
Hunteria pycnantha K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in E.J. 23: 222 (1896)
Pleiocarpa tubicina Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in K.B. 1898: 304 (1898); De Wild. & Durand in Ann. Mus. Congo Bot., ser. 2, 1, 1: 37 (1899) & 1, 2: 150 (1901). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), lower Congo R., Dewèvre 945 (BR, holo., K!, iso.)
Pleiocarpa microcarpa Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in F.T.A. 4, 1: 102 (1902). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Niamniam land, Mbrowole R., Schweinfurth 3073 (K!, holo.)
Pleiocarpa bagshawei S. Moore [family APOCYNACEAE], in J. Bot. 45: 49 (1907). Type: Uganda, Toro Distr., Dura [Durro] Forest, Bagshawe 1086 (BM!, holo.)
Pleiocarpa pycnantha (Stapf) Pichon var. tubicina [family APOCYNACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Brot. sér. 2 (27): 132, map c (1953); Huber in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 63 (1963)
Pleiocarpa sp. near swynnertonii [family APOCYNACEAE], of T.T.C.L.: 54 (1949)
Information
Tree 1.5–20(–30) m high; trunk 2–50 cm in diameter; bark smooth or slightly rough, pale to dark grey; wood hard, durable. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3–5, petiolate; blade narrowly elliptic to oblong, rarely obovate, 4–23 cm long, 1.1–8 cm wide, apex acute to acuminate with acumen 4–12 mm long, cuneate at the base or decurrent intothe petiole; petiole 5–20 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, rarely terminal, 10–30(–40)-flowered; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Flowers white, fragrant or not; sepals broadly ovate to elliptic, up to 2.5 mm long; corolla white to orange-yellow; tube greenish white, 6.2–10.5 mm long; lobes ovate or elliptic to suborbicular, 1.3–4.5(–4.8) mm long, up to 3.5 mm wide; stamens inserted 4.6–8(–9.5) mm from the base; pistil glabrous, 4.6–8.6(–9.7) mm long; pistil head ellipsoid to ovoid. Fruits yellow, subglobose to pyriform, sometimes stipitate, 13–23(–30) mm long, up to 24 mm in diameter; seeds ellipsoid to oblong, 6.5–13.5×4.5–9.5×2–4 mm. Fig. 13 (p. 40). 
Range
DISTR. U 2, 4; K 4, 7; T 1, 3, 4, 6, 8; Z tropical Africa from Senegal in the W to Angola, Zambia and Mozambique
Altitude range
0–2300 m
Distribution
KENYA Meru District Meru National Park, Kindani camp site, 28 Sept 1980, Hamilton 738!;KENYA Kwale District Mwele Mdogo Forest, Shimba Hills, 6 Jan. 1988, Luke 893A!;KENYA Lamu District Witu Forest Reserve, 18 Nov. 1988, Luke & Robertson 1405!TANZANIA Bukoba District Kaigi, 1935, Gillman 352!;TANZANIA Mpanda District Kungwe Mt, 11 Sept. 1959, Harley 9587A!;TANZANIA Lindi District Mchinjiri, Rondo plateau, Mar. 1952, Semsei 679!TANZANIA Zanzibar, Chwaka mile 17, Mar. 1962, Faulkner 3022UGANDA Toro District Kibale Forest Reserve, Mar. 1943, Blair-Simpson 5245!;UGANDA Ankole District Kalinzu Forest, 27 Oct. 1969, Synnott 410!;UGANDA Mengo District near Budo, Mar. 1932, Eggeling 517!
Notes
USES. Wood hard, used for construction and implements; roots used in palm wine
PLEIOCARPA pycnantha (K. Schum.) Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
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