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RAPHIA Ruffia Mart. [family PALMAE]
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 8, page 97, (1902) Author: (By C. H. Wright.)
Names
RAPHIA Ruffia Mart. [family PALMAE], Palm. iii. 217. —Kunth, Enum. iii. 217; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 16, C. 131.
Raphia pedunculata P. Beauv. [family PALMAE], in Desv. Journ. Bot. ii. 87, and Fl. Owar. i. 78, t. 44, fig. 2, t. 46, fig. 2.
Sagus farinifera Gærtn. [family ], Fruct. ii. 186, t. 120, fig. 3.
Sagus Ruffia Jacq. [family ], Fragm. 7, no. 27, t. 4, fig. 2.
Sagus pedunculata Lam. [family ], Encycl. Suppl. v. 13, and Ill. iii. 357, t. 771, fig. 2 a-g.
Metroxylon Ruffia Spreng. [family PALMAE], Syst. ii. 139.
Information
Stem 6–26 ft. high, 1 ft. thick. Leaves up to 65 ft. long; petiole up to 13 ft. long, 10 lin. thick. Calyx of male flowers pedicelled. Fruit obovate or pyriform, somewhat depressed and mucronate at the apex; scales in 12–15 rows, very convex, polished, chestnut-brown, adpressedly ciliate.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Taveta, near Kilimanjaro, ex Engler.Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. ex Engler.Pemba Island Mozamb. Dist. ex Engler.German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. on the coast, and Usagara and Usambara regions, ex Engler; Kilimanjaro region; Lake Yipe and Kahe, ex Engler.
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
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 8, page 97, (1902) Author: (By C. H. Wright.)
Names
RAPHIA Ruffia Mart. [family PALMAE], Palm. iii. 217. —Kunth, Enum. iii. 217; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 16, C. 131.
Raphia pedunculata P. Beauv. [family PALMAE], in Desv. Journ. Bot. ii. 87, and Fl. Owar. i. 78, t. 44, fig. 2, t. 46, fig. 2.
Sagus farinifera Gærtn. [family ], Fruct. ii. 186, t. 120, fig. 3.
Sagus Ruffia Jacq. [family ], Fragm. 7, no. 27, t. 4, fig. 2.
Sagus pedunculata Lam. [family ], Encycl. Suppl. v. 13, and Ill. iii. 357, t. 771, fig. 2 a-g.
Metroxylon Ruffia Spreng. [family PALMAE], Syst. ii. 139.
Information
Stem 6–26 ft. high, 1 ft. thick. Leaves up to 65 ft. long; petiole up to 13 ft. long, 10 lin. thick. Calyx of male flowers pedicelled. Fruit obovate or pyriform, somewhat depressed and mucronate at the apex; scales in 12–15 rows, very convex, polished, chestnut-brown, adpressedly ciliate.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Taveta, near Kilimanjaro, ex Engler.Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. ex Engler.Pemba Island Mozamb. Dist. ex Engler.German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. on the coast, and Usagara and Usambara regions, ex Engler; Kilimanjaro region; Lake Yipe and Kahe, ex Engler.
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
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 8, page 97, (1902) Author: (By C. H. Wright.)
Names
RAPHIA Ruffia Mart. [family PALMAE], Palm. iii. 217. —Kunth, Enum. iii. 217; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 16, C. 131.
Raphia pedunculata P. Beauv. [family PALMAE], in Desv. Journ. Bot. ii. 87, and Fl. Owar. i. 78, t. 44, fig. 2, t. 46, fig. 2.
Sagus farinifera Gærtn. [family ], Fruct. ii. 186, t. 120, fig. 3.
Sagus Ruffia Jacq. [family ], Fragm. 7, no. 27, t. 4, fig. 2.
Sagus pedunculata Lam. [family ], Encycl. Suppl. v. 13, and Ill. iii. 357, t. 771, fig. 2 a-g.
Metroxylon Ruffia Spreng. [family PALMAE], Syst. ii. 139.
Information
Stem 6–26 ft. high, 1 ft. thick. Leaves up to 65 ft. long; petiole up to 13 ft. long, 10 lin. thick. Calyx of male flowers pedicelled. Fruit obovate or pyriform, somewhat depressed and mucronate at the apex; scales in 12–15 rows, very convex, polished, chestnut-brown, adpressedly ciliate.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Taveta, near Kilimanjaro, ex Engler.Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. ex Engler.Pemba Island Mozamb. Dist. ex Engler.German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. on the coast, and Usagara and Usambara regions, ex Engler; Kilimanjaro region; Lake Yipe and Kahe, ex Engler.
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
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