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TRICHOSCYPHA lucens Oliv. [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 435, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
TRICHOSCYPHA lucens Oliv. [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Information
A climbing shrub, attaining 30 ft. Leaves rather coriaceous, 3/4–2 ft. or more in length, rachis puberulous or glabrescent; leaflets 11–15, the lateral approximated in pairs, oval-oblong, acuminate, shining above, midrib and lateral nerves prominent beneath, early wholly glabrous or finely puberulous beneath or the impressed midrib above only minutely strigillose, 3–7 in. long, 1 1/3–2 1/3 in. broad; petiolule 3–6 lines in the male, about 1 line in the female plant in our specimens, Flowers 1 1/2–2 lines in diam., 4-merous (male only seen), sessile, in dense oblong or rounded clusters on the branches of short, spreading, terminal panicles of 4–6 in. Calyx 4-fid with ovate segments. Petals ovate, obtuse, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens equalling the petals, inserted round a hirsute disk. Young fruits silky with ferruginous hairs, subsessile or on very short, pubescent, stout pedicels.
Distribution
West Tropical Africa Upper Guinea River Muni, Mann!
Notes
Specimens, with male flowers only, of possibly a third species of Trichoscypha are in the Kew herbarium from Fernando Po (Mann). The flowers are sessile or subsessile, glomerulate, in loosely branched panicles as in T. lucens, but the leaflets, in texture like those of T. Mannii, are only about 5 to each leaf.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 435, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
TRICHOSCYPHA lucens Oliv. [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Information
A climbing shrub, attaining 30 ft. Leaves rather coriaceous, 3/4–2 ft. or more in length, rachis puberulous or glabrescent; leaflets 11–15, the lateral approximated in pairs, oval-oblong, acuminate, shining above, midrib and lateral nerves prominent beneath, early wholly glabrous or finely puberulous beneath or the impressed midrib above only minutely strigillose, 3–7 in. long, 1 1/3–2 1/3 in. broad; petiolule 3–6 lines in the male, about 1 line in the female plant in our specimens, Flowers 1 1/2–2 lines in diam., 4-merous (male only seen), sessile, in dense oblong or rounded clusters on the branches of short, spreading, terminal panicles of 4–6 in. Calyx 4-fid with ovate segments. Petals ovate, obtuse, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens equalling the petals, inserted round a hirsute disk. Young fruits silky with ferruginous hairs, subsessile or on very short, pubescent, stout pedicels.
Distribution
West Tropical Africa Upper Guinea River Muni, Mann!
Notes
Specimens, with male flowers only, of possibly a third species of Trichoscypha are in the Kew herbarium from Fernando Po (Mann). The flowers are sessile or subsessile, glomerulate, in loosely branched panicles as in T. lucens, but the leaflets, in texture like those of T. Mannii, are only about 5 to each leaf.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 435, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
TRICHOSCYPHA lucens Oliv. [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Information
A climbing shrub, attaining 30 ft. Leaves rather coriaceous, 3/4–2 ft. or more in length, rachis puberulous or glabrescent; leaflets 11–15, the lateral approximated in pairs, oval-oblong, acuminate, shining above, midrib and lateral nerves prominent beneath, early wholly glabrous or finely puberulous beneath or the impressed midrib above only minutely strigillose, 3–7 in. long, 1 1/3–2 1/3 in. broad; petiolule 3–6 lines in the male, about 1 line in the female plant in our specimens, Flowers 1 1/2–2 lines in diam., 4-merous (male only seen), sessile, in dense oblong or rounded clusters on the branches of short, spreading, terminal panicles of 4–6 in. Calyx 4-fid with ovate segments. Petals ovate, obtuse, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens equalling the petals, inserted round a hirsute disk. Young fruits silky with ferruginous hairs, subsessile or on very short, pubescent, stout pedicels.
Distribution
West Tropical Africa Upper Guinea River Muni, Mann!
Notes
Specimens, with male flowers only, of possibly a third species of Trichoscypha are in the Kew herbarium from Fernando Po (Mann). The flowers are sessile or subsessile, glomerulate, in loosely branched panicles as in T. lucens, but the leaflets, in texture like those of T. Mannii, are only about 5 to each leaf.
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