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LEPISANTHES senegalensis (Poir.) Leenh. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by I. Friis & K. Vollesen [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
LEPISANTHES senegalensis (Poir.) Leenh. [family SAPINDACEAE], (1969);
Aphania senegalensis (Poir.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], (1878). Fig. 161. [type as above]
Information
Tree to 15 m tall; bark smooth, grey to brownish; branchlets brownish strigose. Leaves including petiole 3–25 cm long, subglabrous; petiole 1.5–5 cm long; leaflets in 2–3 pairs, elliptic, 6.5–21(–27) x (2–)3–8(–9) cm, entire, acute to rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base. Inflorescences pseudoterminal, of panicles from the upper leaf axils, 5–15(–20) cm long, brownish pubescent; pedicels 1–3(–7 in fruit) mm long. Sepals 5, ovate to subcircular, 2–3.5 x 1.5–3 mm. Petals 5, broadly ovate, c. 2 x 2 mm, yellowish green. Stamens 8; filaments 2–3 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 1–2 mm long; style 1–2 mm long, semi-gynobasic. Fruit 1–2-lobed, reddish; cocci ellipsoid, 10–15 x 8–11 mm. Seeds ovoid, c. 12 x 9 mm, black.
Range
S3 Eritrea, Ethiopia and widespread across Africa to Senegal.
Altitude range
c. 30 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Deshmukh JESS/86/97.
Notes
Maasar-jabis (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by I. Friis & K. Vollesen [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
LEPISANTHES senegalensis (Poir.) Leenh. [family SAPINDACEAE], (1969);
Aphania senegalensis (Poir.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], (1878). Fig. 161. [type as above]
Information
Tree to 15 m tall; bark smooth, grey to brownish; branchlets brownish strigose. Leaves including petiole 3–25 cm long, subglabrous; petiole 1.5–5 cm long; leaflets in 2–3 pairs, elliptic, 6.5–21(–27) x (2–)3–8(–9) cm, entire, acute to rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base. Inflorescences pseudoterminal, of panicles from the upper leaf axils, 5–15(–20) cm long, brownish pubescent; pedicels 1–3(–7 in fruit) mm long. Sepals 5, ovate to subcircular, 2–3.5 x 1.5–3 mm. Petals 5, broadly ovate, c. 2 x 2 mm, yellowish green. Stamens 8; filaments 2–3 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 1–2 mm long; style 1–2 mm long, semi-gynobasic. Fruit 1–2-lobed, reddish; cocci ellipsoid, 10–15 x 8–11 mm. Seeds ovoid, c. 12 x 9 mm, black.
Range
S3 Eritrea, Ethiopia and widespread across Africa to Senegal.
Altitude range
c. 30 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Deshmukh JESS/86/97.
Notes
Maasar-jabis (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by I. Friis & K. Vollesen [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
LEPISANTHES senegalensis (Poir.) Leenh. [family SAPINDACEAE], (1969);
Aphania senegalensis (Poir.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], (1878). Fig. 161. [type as above]
Information
Tree to 15 m tall; bark smooth, grey to brownish; branchlets brownish strigose. Leaves including petiole 3–25 cm long, subglabrous; petiole 1.5–5 cm long; leaflets in 2–3 pairs, elliptic, 6.5–21(–27) x (2–)3–8(–9) cm, entire, acute to rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base. Inflorescences pseudoterminal, of panicles from the upper leaf axils, 5–15(–20) cm long, brownish pubescent; pedicels 1–3(–7 in fruit) mm long. Sepals 5, ovate to subcircular, 2–3.5 x 1.5–3 mm. Petals 5, broadly ovate, c. 2 x 2 mm, yellowish green. Stamens 8; filaments 2–3 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 1–2 mm long; style 1–2 mm long, semi-gynobasic. Fruit 1–2-lobed, reddish; cocci ellipsoid, 10–15 x 8–11 mm. Seeds ovoid, c. 12 x 9 mm, black.
Range
S3 Eritrea, Ethiopia and widespread across Africa to Senegal.
Altitude range
c. 30 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Deshmukh JESS/86/97.
Notes
Maasar-jabis (Som.).
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