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MACARANGA saccifera Pax [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
MACARANGA saccifera Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 93, t. 1. —De Wild. Miss. É. Laurent, 130, tt. 39–41; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, ii. 57; Reliq. Dewevr. ii. 212; De Wild. Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, ii. 283, and Comp. Kasai, 330; Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, 246; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 496.
Information
A shrub or tree; branches armed with spines, densely tawny-pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, rounded-ovate, deeply 3-lobed, lobes obovate-oblong or triangular, acute, margin repand or toothed, base narrowly deep-cordate, 8–10 in. long, nearly as wide, subcoriaceous, gland-dotted beneath, with a pair of marginal glandular processes at the junction with the petiole; petiole 6 in. long; stipules converted into large coriaceous acute flask-shaped sacs. Male flowers in axillary panicles; bracts ovate, acute, subtending several flowers; buds globose. Female flowers unknown.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Libreville, Klaine, 3080!Congo Lower Guinea Cataract district; between Matadi and Leopoldville, Laurent!Congo South Central Madibi, on the River Kwilu, Sapin; Equatorial district; near Eala, Pynaert, 717, 1047, Laurent, 1133, Bokakata, Dewèvre; Bangala district; near Bumba, Seret, 35; Mjolo, Laurent, 258; Seret; Aruwimi; Patalongo (Yambuya) Laurent. Kasai; Kondue, Laurent; Batempe, Laurent; between Lusambo and the Lomami, Laurent; Mukenge, Pogge, 1335! 1363!
MACARANGA saccifera Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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