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Warburgia elongata Verdcourt [family CANELLACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1958) Author: B. VERDCOURT
Names
Warburgia elongata Verdcourt [family CANELLACEAE], in K.B. 1954: 544 (1955). Type: Tanganyika, Uzaramo District, Vikindu, Eggeling 6813! (EA, holo., K, iso.)
Information
Small tree or evergreen shrub with 1–6 stems up to 6 m. tall, with rounded spreading crown; branchlets ultimately drooping. Bark thin, grey-brown, smooth, with scattered cinnamon-coloured lenticels. Leaves papery, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, slightly falcate, densely pellucid-punctate, acute at the apex, cuneate and narrowly winged at the base, lamina 4–15 cm. long and 2–5.5 cm. broad, minutely rugulose, margins slightly reflexed, petioles 3–7 mm. long. Flowers axillary, solitary or in 2–flowered cymes; pedicels 2 mm. long. Bracts 2–3 mm. long and 3.2–4.5 mm. wide, very obtuse. Sepals convex, elliptic or obovate-spathulate, apically rounded, 4–6.5 mm. long and 2–4.5 mm. wide. Petals 3.5–6 mm. long and 1.5–2.5 mm. wide. Staminal tube 5 mm. long, thecae 2–2.5 mm. long. Ovary 4.5 mm. long, ovules ± 26. Fruit clavate, elongate, narrowed to the base, 5.5–6 cm. long and 2 cm. in diameter at the widest part, acute at the apex. Mature seeds unknown.
Range
DISTR. T6 apparently endemic; further collecting will probably show it to be more widely distributed
Altitude range
30 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Uzaramo District Vikindu Forest, Sept. 1953, Paulo 157! & May 1954 (fl.), Eggeling 6813! & May 1954 (fr.), Omari 15!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1958) Author: B. VERDCOURT
Names
Warburgia elongata Verdcourt [family CANELLACEAE], in K.B. 1954: 544 (1955). Type: Tanganyika, Uzaramo District, Vikindu, Eggeling 6813! (EA, holo., K, iso.)
Information
Small tree or evergreen shrub with 1–6 stems up to 6 m. tall, with rounded spreading crown; branchlets ultimately drooping. Bark thin, grey-brown, smooth, with scattered cinnamon-coloured lenticels. Leaves papery, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, slightly falcate, densely pellucid-punctate, acute at the apex, cuneate and narrowly winged at the base, lamina 4–15 cm. long and 2–5.5 cm. broad, minutely rugulose, margins slightly reflexed, petioles 3–7 mm. long. Flowers axillary, solitary or in 2–flowered cymes; pedicels 2 mm. long. Bracts 2–3 mm. long and 3.2–4.5 mm. wide, very obtuse. Sepals convex, elliptic or obovate-spathulate, apically rounded, 4–6.5 mm. long and 2–4.5 mm. wide. Petals 3.5–6 mm. long and 1.5–2.5 mm. wide. Staminal tube 5 mm. long, thecae 2–2.5 mm. long. Ovary 4.5 mm. long, ovules ± 26. Fruit clavate, elongate, narrowed to the base, 5.5–6 cm. long and 2 cm. in diameter at the widest part, acute at the apex. Mature seeds unknown.
Range
DISTR. T6 apparently endemic; further collecting will probably show it to be more widely distributed
Altitude range
30 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Uzaramo District Vikindu Forest, Sept. 1953, Paulo 157! & May 1954 (fl.), Eggeling 6813! & May 1954 (fr.), Omari 15!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1958) Author: B. VERDCOURT
Names
Warburgia elongata Verdcourt [family CANELLACEAE], in K.B. 1954: 544 (1955). Type: Tanganyika, Uzaramo District, Vikindu, Eggeling 6813! (EA, holo., K, iso.)
Information
Small tree or evergreen shrub with 1–6 stems up to 6 m. tall, with rounded spreading crown; branchlets ultimately drooping. Bark thin, grey-brown, smooth, with scattered cinnamon-coloured lenticels. Leaves papery, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, slightly falcate, densely pellucid-punctate, acute at the apex, cuneate and narrowly winged at the base, lamina 4–15 cm. long and 2–5.5 cm. broad, minutely rugulose, margins slightly reflexed, petioles 3–7 mm. long. Flowers axillary, solitary or in 2–flowered cymes; pedicels 2 mm. long. Bracts 2–3 mm. long and 3.2–4.5 mm. wide, very obtuse. Sepals convex, elliptic or obovate-spathulate, apically rounded, 4–6.5 mm. long and 2–4.5 mm. wide. Petals 3.5–6 mm. long and 1.5–2.5 mm. wide. Staminal tube 5 mm. long, thecae 2–2.5 mm. long. Ovary 4.5 mm. long, ovules ± 26. Fruit clavate, elongate, narrowed to the base, 5.5–6 cm. long and 2 cm. in diameter at the widest part, acute at the apex. Mature seeds unknown.
Range
DISTR. T6 apparently endemic; further collecting will probably show it to be more widely distributed
Altitude range
30 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Uzaramo District Vikindu Forest, Sept. 1953, Paulo 157! & May 1954 (fl.), Eggeling 6813! & May 1954 (fr.), Omari 15!
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