Neoboutonia mannii Benth. [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
Conceveiba africana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora 47, 34: 530 (1864); in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 897 (1866). Type as above.
Neoboutonia mannii Benth. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 13: sub tt. 1298, 1299 (1879), in adnot. —Prain in F.T.A. 6, 1: 920 (1912). —Keay in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1, 2: 404 (1958). Type from Principe.
Neoboutonia africana Müll. Arg. Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engler and Prantl., Pflanzenfam. 3, 5: 57 (1890); in Engler, Pflanzenr. [IV, fam. 147, vii] 63: 75 (1914). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas (Veg. Erde 9) 3, 2: 68 (1921). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 221 (1949). —Topham, Check List For. Trees Shrubs Nyasaland Prot.: 52 (1958), non Müll. Arg. Type as above.
Information
A tree up to 20 m in height, very like N. melleri but differing in the following ways: leaves often denticulate on the margins, hirsute-pubescent or pilose on both surfaces; male flower buds pubescent; female calyx lobes 1 mm long, shorter than the calyx tube, broadly triangular-ovate.
Habitat
Submontane and escarpment evergreen riverine forest beside perennial streams, and plateau or watershed swamp forest (mushitu)
Range
throughout tropical Africa from Guinea to Uganda and south to Mozambique
Altitude range
1750 m.
1750
1750
Distribution
Zambia W Mwinilunga, y. fr. 20.x.1955, Holmes 1286 (K; NDO).Mozambique MS Tsetserra, st. 7.vi.1971, Müller & Gordon 1829 (SRGH).Malawi S Zomba Mountain, male fl. x.1929, Clements 40 (MAL).Zambia N 35 km north of Mpika, Muchinga Escarpment, st. 28.xi.1952, White 3761 (FHO; K).
Notes
This species may prove to be conspecific with N. melleri when more material is examined.
Neoboutonia mannii Benth. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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