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Drypetes mossambicensis Hutchinson [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
Drypetes mossambicensis Hutchinson [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Information
A tree 35–45 ft. high; trunk large (Vasse); branchlets grey, glabrous, scarred with prominent lenticels. Leaves narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded and often emarginate at the apex, obtuse and slightly unequalsided at the base, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 1/4 in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous, prominently reticulate and glabrous on both surfaces, with about 7 pairs of much-branched lateral nerves; petiole 2 lin. long, slender, very slightly wrinkled, glabrous; stipules small and deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, tomentose within. Male flowers numerous, in axillary fascicles on the young branchlets; pedicel up to 2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 4–5, obovate, rounded at the apex, about 1 1/3 lin. long and 1 lin. broad, rusty-tomentellous outside. Stamens 5–10, usually 8; filaments rather slender, glabrous, inserted outside the folds of the disk; anthers 3/4 lin. long. Disk large, glabrous and conspicuous, with folded margins, each fold half embracing a filament. Female flowers not known.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mourassa Village, Pungoue Valley, Vasse, 319!
Notes
Allied to D. aframensis, Hutchinson, but easily distinguished by its smaller leaves, which are rounded or emarginate at the apex and obtuse and unequal-sided at the base, and the more slender petioles.
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
Drypetes mossambicensis Hutchinson [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Information
A tree 35–45 ft. high; trunk large (Vasse); branchlets grey, glabrous, scarred with prominent lenticels. Leaves narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded and often emarginate at the apex, obtuse and slightly unequalsided at the base, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 1/4 in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous, prominently reticulate and glabrous on both surfaces, with about 7 pairs of much-branched lateral nerves; petiole 2 lin. long, slender, very slightly wrinkled, glabrous; stipules small and deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, tomentose within. Male flowers numerous, in axillary fascicles on the young branchlets; pedicel up to 2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 4–5, obovate, rounded at the apex, about 1 1/3 lin. long and 1 lin. broad, rusty-tomentellous outside. Stamens 5–10, usually 8; filaments rather slender, glabrous, inserted outside the folds of the disk; anthers 3/4 lin. long. Disk large, glabrous and conspicuous, with folded margins, each fold half embracing a filament. Female flowers not known.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mourassa Village, Pungoue Valley, Vasse, 319!
Notes
Allied to D. aframensis, Hutchinson, but easily distinguished by its smaller leaves, which are rounded or emarginate at the apex and obtuse and unequal-sided at the base, and the more slender petioles.
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
Drypetes mossambicensis Hutchinson [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Information
A tree 35–45 ft. high; trunk large (Vasse); branchlets grey, glabrous, scarred with prominent lenticels. Leaves narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded and often emarginate at the apex, obtuse and slightly unequalsided at the base, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 1/4 in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous, prominently reticulate and glabrous on both surfaces, with about 7 pairs of much-branched lateral nerves; petiole 2 lin. long, slender, very slightly wrinkled, glabrous; stipules small and deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, tomentose within. Male flowers numerous, in axillary fascicles on the young branchlets; pedicel up to 2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 4–5, obovate, rounded at the apex, about 1 1/3 lin. long and 1 lin. broad, rusty-tomentellous outside. Stamens 5–10, usually 8; filaments rather slender, glabrous, inserted outside the folds of the disk; anthers 3/4 lin. long. Disk large, glabrous and conspicuous, with folded margins, each fold half embracing a filament. Female flowers not known.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mourassa Village, Pungoue Valley, Vasse, 319!
Notes
Allied to D. aframensis, Hutchinson, but easily distinguished by its smaller leaves, which are rounded or emarginate at the apex and obtuse and unequal-sided at the base, and the more slender petioles.
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