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Strychnos usambarensis [family STRYCHNACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Strychnos usambarensis [family STRYCHNACEAE]
Common names
S. micans S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40: 146 (1911); Verdoorn in Bothalia 3: 587 (1939). Type: S. Rhodesia, Chirinda Forest, Swynnerton 125 (K, iso.).
Information
Trees from about 2-15 m tall. Branchlets very slender, terete, young twigs with a thin white skin, splitting longitudinally and peeling, leaving dark coloured twigs with small lenticels; leaf-bases persistent, prominent, upturned. Leaves shiny dark green above, slightly lighter beneath, ovate-lanceolate, often folding longitudinally, acuminate in the upper half, 3-5-5-5 cm long and 1-2-5 cm broad, shortly cuneate to rounded at the base, acute at the apex, 3-nerved from near the base, sometimes 5-nerved but outer pair not distinct and often running into the margin, inner pair arising 2-4 mm above the base and running parallel with the margin and about 2-4 mm within it, tertiary veins not conspicuous; margin sometimes crisped; petiole about 6 mm long. Inflorescence a few-flowered compound cyme, more or less oblong in outline, about 1 • 5 cm long, peduncle and pedicels glabrous or very minutely and sparsely papillose pubescent; pedicels about 1 -5 mm long; bracts cucullate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, about 1 mm lo
Habitat
Characterised by its 4-merous flowers, stipitate, 1-2-seeded fruits and long-acuminate leaves.
Use
3. Strychnos usambarensis Gilg in Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 311 (1895); Bruce in Kew Bull. 1955: 627 (1956); Verdoorn in Fl. PI. Afr. 32: t. 1242 (1957); Bruce & Lewis in F.T.E.A. Loganiaceae: 34(1960). Type: Tanganyika, Usambara, Hoist 3582 (K, iso.).
Range
Occurs in high forest, relict forest, deep wooded gorges, rocky banks of streams, in deep valleys or coastal bush. Recorded from Uganda and Kenya southwards to the Transvaal and Natal.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Strychnos usambarensis [family STRYCHNACEAE]
Common names
S. micans S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40: 146 (1911); Verdoorn in Bothalia 3: 587 (1939). Type: S. Rhodesia, Chirinda Forest, Swynnerton 125 (K, iso.).
Information
Trees from about 2-15 m tall. Branchlets very slender, terete, young twigs with a thin white skin, splitting longitudinally and peeling, leaving dark coloured twigs with small lenticels; leaf-bases persistent, prominent, upturned. Leaves shiny dark green above, slightly lighter beneath, ovate-lanceolate, often folding longitudinally, acuminate in the upper half, 3-5-5-5 cm long and 1-2-5 cm broad, shortly cuneate to rounded at the base, acute at the apex, 3-nerved from near the base, sometimes 5-nerved but outer pair not distinct and often running into the margin, inner pair arising 2-4 mm above the base and running parallel with the margin and about 2-4 mm within it, tertiary veins not conspicuous; margin sometimes crisped; petiole about 6 mm long. Inflorescence a few-flowered compound cyme, more or less oblong in outline, about 1 • 5 cm long, peduncle and pedicels glabrous or very minutely and sparsely papillose pubescent; pedicels about 1 -5 mm long; bracts cucullate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, about 1 mm lo
Habitat
Characterised by its 4-merous flowers, stipitate, 1-2-seeded fruits and long-acuminate leaves.
Use
3. Strychnos usambarensis Gilg in Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 311 (1895); Bruce in Kew Bull. 1955: 627 (1956); Verdoorn in Fl. PI. Afr. 32: t. 1242 (1957); Bruce & Lewis in F.T.E.A. Loganiaceae: 34(1960). Type: Tanganyika, Usambara, Hoist 3582 (K, iso.).
Range
Occurs in high forest, relict forest, deep wooded gorges, rocky banks of streams, in deep valleys or coastal bush. Recorded from Uganda and Kenya southwards to the Transvaal and Natal.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Strychnos usambarensis [family STRYCHNACEAE]
Common names
S. micans S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40: 146 (1911); Verdoorn in Bothalia 3: 587 (1939). Type: S. Rhodesia, Chirinda Forest, Swynnerton 125 (K, iso.).
Information
Trees from about 2-15 m tall. Branchlets very slender, terete, young twigs with a thin white skin, splitting longitudinally and peeling, leaving dark coloured twigs with small lenticels; leaf-bases persistent, prominent, upturned. Leaves shiny dark green above, slightly lighter beneath, ovate-lanceolate, often folding longitudinally, acuminate in the upper half, 3-5-5-5 cm long and 1-2-5 cm broad, shortly cuneate to rounded at the base, acute at the apex, 3-nerved from near the base, sometimes 5-nerved but outer pair not distinct and often running into the margin, inner pair arising 2-4 mm above the base and running parallel with the margin and about 2-4 mm within it, tertiary veins not conspicuous; margin sometimes crisped; petiole about 6 mm long. Inflorescence a few-flowered compound cyme, more or less oblong in outline, about 1 • 5 cm long, peduncle and pedicels glabrous or very minutely and sparsely papillose pubescent; pedicels about 1 -5 mm long; bracts cucullate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, about 1 mm lo
Habitat
Characterised by its 4-merous flowers, stipitate, 1-2-seeded fruits and long-acuminate leaves.
Use
3. Strychnos usambarensis Gilg in Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 311 (1895); Bruce in Kew Bull. 1955: 627 (1956); Verdoorn in Fl. PI. Afr. 32: t. 1242 (1957); Bruce & Lewis in F.T.E.A. Loganiaceae: 34(1960). Type: Tanganyika, Usambara, Hoist 3582 (K, iso.).
Range
Occurs in high forest, relict forest, deep wooded gorges, rocky banks of streams, in deep valleys or coastal bush. Recorded from Uganda and Kenya southwards to the Transvaal and Natal.
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