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Vernicia fordii Hemsl. Airy Shaw [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Vernicia fordii Hemsl. Airy Shaw [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 20: 394 (1966). —Radcliffe-Smith in F.T.E.A., Euphorb. 1: 179 (1987). Type from China.
Aleurites fordii Hemsl. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 29, tt. 2801–2 (1906); in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1906: 120 (1906); 1914: 3 (1914). —Pax in Engler, Pflanzenr. [IV, fam. 147, i] 42: 132 (1910). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 199 (1949).
Information
Very like V. montana, but differing in having an appressed golden-sericeous indumentum, sessile discoid glands at the base of the leaf blade, usually bisexual inflorescences, precocious flowers, larger petals (c. 3 cm long), a sparingly-pubescent ovary and smooth or faintly lineate ± spherical fruits.
Habitat
Originally in plantations as an oil tree, but also as an ornamental, sometimes becoming naturalized
Range
Native of southern China, southern Myanmar (Burma) and northern Vietnam. Widely cultivated in the tropics generally
Altitude range
1060 m.
1060
1060
Distribution
Mozambique M Namaacha, (cultivated), st. 10.i.1948, Torre 7093 (LISC).Malawi S Thyolo (Cholo) Road, 1–4 m beyond Chigumula, fl. 10.ix.1966, Binns 356 (MAL).Zimbabwe E Mutare (Umtali), (cultivated), fl. 15.ix.1964, Loveridge 1099 (FHO; K; LISC; SRGH).
Notes
The Tung Oil Tree.
Vernicia fordii Hemsl. Airy Shaw [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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