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ANDROSTACHYS Johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

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 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
ANDROSTACHYS Johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 439. —Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 201. Weihea (?) subpeltata Sim [family ], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 66, t. lxi. A.
Information
A tall hard-wooded tree, providing valuable timber; branchlets angular and articulated. Leaves opposite, decussate, ovate, obtuse, rounded or subcordate at the base, 1 1/4–2 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous above, more or less silky-hairy below; stipular sheath 3/4 in. long, silky-pubescent outside; petioles 1/4– 1/3 in. long, silky-hairy. Flowers yellow; peduncles 1/4– 1/3 in. long. Males: Sepals petaloid, lanceolate, with retuse or 2-lobed tips, long-pilose outside. Staminal axis 1/2–1 in. long. Females: Calyx-segments 1/4 in. long. Ovary densely pilose; style 1/4 in. long, silky. Capsule depressed, 1/2 in. long. Seeds 1/3 in. long, 1/4 in. broad; testa brown and shining.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Inhambane, O'Neill! near Beira, Johnson, 283!
Notes
We are much indebted to Mr. J. Burtt-Davy for kindly calling our attention to the plant described and figured by Sim from imperfect material as Weihea (?) subpeltata, which is undoubtedly identical. According to Sim it occurs in dense pure thickets in kloofs on the Lebombo Mountains where its timber is well known. Mr. Burtt-Davy has also forwarded to Kew a fruiting specimen collected at Ubombo, Swaziland, by B. H. Warner (7009). Both of these localities are within the area of the Flora Capensis. For further particulars see Kew Bulletin, 1912, pp. 307–8.

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 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
ANDROSTACHYS Johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 439. —Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 201. Weihea (?) subpeltata Sim [family ], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 66, t. lxi. A.
Information
A tall hard-wooded tree, providing valuable timber; branchlets angular and articulated. Leaves opposite, decussate, ovate, obtuse, rounded or subcordate at the base, 1 1/4–2 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous above, more or less silky-hairy below; stipular sheath 3/4 in. long, silky-pubescent outside; petioles 1/4– 1/3 in. long, silky-hairy. Flowers yellow; peduncles 1/4– 1/3 in. long. Males: Sepals petaloid, lanceolate, with retuse or 2-lobed tips, long-pilose outside. Staminal axis 1/2–1 in. long. Females: Calyx-segments 1/4 in. long. Ovary densely pilose; style 1/4 in. long, silky. Capsule depressed, 1/2 in. long. Seeds 1/3 in. long, 1/4 in. broad; testa brown and shining.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Inhambane, O'Neill! near Beira, Johnson, 283!
Notes
We are much indebted to Mr. J. Burtt-Davy for kindly calling our attention to the plant described and figured by Sim from imperfect material as Weihea (?) subpeltata, which is undoubtedly identical. According to Sim it occurs in dense pure thickets in kloofs on the Lebombo Mountains where its timber is well known. Mr. Burtt-Davy has also forwarded to Kew a fruiting specimen collected at Ubombo, Swaziland, by B. H. Warner (7009). Both of these localities are within the area of the Flora Capensis. For further particulars see Kew Bulletin, 1912, pp. 307–8.
ANDROSTACHYS Johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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