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Encephalartos septentrionalis Schweinf. [family ZAMIACEAE]
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: R. MELVILLE
Names
Encephalartos septentrionalis Schweinf. [family ZAMIACEAE], in Bot. Zeit. 29 : 334 (1871); F.T.A. 6 (2) : 350 (1917); Schuster in E.P. IV. 1 : 122 (1932); F.C.B. 1 : 3, photo. 4 (1948); Fl. PL Sudan 1 : 1 (1950); I.T.U., ed. 2 : 104 (1952); Troupin, Fl. Parc Nat. Garamba 1 : 9 & tab. (1956). Type : Sudan, Equatoria Province, Zandeland, Gumango Hill, Schweinfurth 2952 (K, iso !)
Information
Trunk 30–200 cm. high and 30 cm. diameter. Leaves narrow oblong, tapering gradually to the base, rhachis distinctly grooved between the leaflets. Median leaflets oblong to lanceolate, ± coriaceous, upper margin ± straight, lower upcurved to the forwardly directed spiny tip, margins with 2–7 spiny teeth often crowded to the base, basal attachment 5–9 mm. wide, lower surface striate with 26–43 parallel nerves; lower leaflets ovate-lanceolate, spiny, passing to 3–2-furcate and simple spines, ceasing just above the swollen base. Male cones narrow ellipsoid or tapering in the upper half, 12–20 cm. long, 3.0–4.5 cm. diameter, peduncle 10–15 cm. long, 5–12 mm. diameter; median scales horizontal, triangular, 12–22 mm. long, bulla deflexed, 15–25 mm. wide, 6–10 mm. deep, rhomboid to plano-convex, puberulent, terminal facet lenticular to compressed-rhomboid, 1/3–2/3 as wide as the bulla. Female cones cylindrical, about 23 cm. long, 11 cm. diameter, bulla of median scales deflexed, 4.5–5.0 cm. wide, 2.0–2.7 cm. deep, rhomboid, with the adaxial margin rounded, obscurely ridged, the sagittal crest of coarse, rounded warts, abaxial face receding, seminal ridges distinct, tuberculate dentate, terminal facet rhomboid to semi-elliptic, 14–17 mm. wide, lateral lobes triangular to irregular, 3–6 mm. long with lateral facets warty ridged and the angles tuberculate dentate.
Range
DISTR. U1 ;
Altitude range
900–2400 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Acholi District Imatong Mts., Apr. 1938, Greenway 3578 ! & Lomwaga Mt., 6 Apr. 1945, Greenway & Hummel 7295 !UGANDA West Nile District W. Madi, Era Reserve, 18 Aug. 1954, F.D. 2055 !
Distribution (external)
French Sudan
Sudan
northern Belgian Congo
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: R. MELVILLE
Names
Encephalartos septentrionalis Schweinf. [family ZAMIACEAE], in Bot. Zeit. 29 : 334 (1871); F.T.A. 6 (2) : 350 (1917); Schuster in E.P. IV. 1 : 122 (1932); F.C.B. 1 : 3, photo. 4 (1948); Fl. PL Sudan 1 : 1 (1950); I.T.U., ed. 2 : 104 (1952); Troupin, Fl. Parc Nat. Garamba 1 : 9 & tab. (1956). Type : Sudan, Equatoria Province, Zandeland, Gumango Hill, Schweinfurth 2952 (K, iso !)
Information
Trunk 30–200 cm. high and 30 cm. diameter. Leaves narrow oblong, tapering gradually to the base, rhachis distinctly grooved between the leaflets. Median leaflets oblong to lanceolate, ± coriaceous, upper margin ± straight, lower upcurved to the forwardly directed spiny tip, margins with 2–7 spiny teeth often crowded to the base, basal attachment 5–9 mm. wide, lower surface striate with 26–43 parallel nerves; lower leaflets ovate-lanceolate, spiny, passing to 3–2-furcate and simple spines, ceasing just above the swollen base. Male cones narrow ellipsoid or tapering in the upper half, 12–20 cm. long, 3.0–4.5 cm. diameter, peduncle 10–15 cm. long, 5–12 mm. diameter; median scales horizontal, triangular, 12–22 mm. long, bulla deflexed, 15–25 mm. wide, 6–10 mm. deep, rhomboid to plano-convex, puberulent, terminal facet lenticular to compressed-rhomboid, 1/3–2/3 as wide as the bulla. Female cones cylindrical, about 23 cm. long, 11 cm. diameter, bulla of median scales deflexed, 4.5–5.0 cm. wide, 2.0–2.7 cm. deep, rhomboid, with the adaxial margin rounded, obscurely ridged, the sagittal crest of coarse, rounded warts, abaxial face receding, seminal ridges distinct, tuberculate dentate, terminal facet rhomboid to semi-elliptic, 14–17 mm. wide, lateral lobes triangular to irregular, 3–6 mm. long with lateral facets warty ridged and the angles tuberculate dentate.
Range
DISTR. U1 ;
Altitude range
900–2400 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Acholi District Imatong Mts., Apr. 1938, Greenway 3578 ! & Lomwaga Mt., 6 Apr. 1945, Greenway & Hummel 7295 !UGANDA West Nile District W. Madi, Era Reserve, 18 Aug. 1954, F.D. 2055 !
Distribution (external)
French Sudan
Sudan
northern Belgian Congo
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: R. MELVILLE
Names
Encephalartos septentrionalis Schweinf. [family ZAMIACEAE], in Bot. Zeit. 29 : 334 (1871); F.T.A. 6 (2) : 350 (1917); Schuster in E.P. IV. 1 : 122 (1932); F.C.B. 1 : 3, photo. 4 (1948); Fl. PL Sudan 1 : 1 (1950); I.T.U., ed. 2 : 104 (1952); Troupin, Fl. Parc Nat. Garamba 1 : 9 & tab. (1956). Type : Sudan, Equatoria Province, Zandeland, Gumango Hill, Schweinfurth 2952 (K, iso !)
Information
Trunk 30–200 cm. high and 30 cm. diameter. Leaves narrow oblong, tapering gradually to the base, rhachis distinctly grooved between the leaflets. Median leaflets oblong to lanceolate, ± coriaceous, upper margin ± straight, lower upcurved to the forwardly directed spiny tip, margins with 2–7 spiny teeth often crowded to the base, basal attachment 5–9 mm. wide, lower surface striate with 26–43 parallel nerves; lower leaflets ovate-lanceolate, spiny, passing to 3–2-furcate and simple spines, ceasing just above the swollen base. Male cones narrow ellipsoid or tapering in the upper half, 12–20 cm. long, 3.0–4.5 cm. diameter, peduncle 10–15 cm. long, 5–12 mm. diameter; median scales horizontal, triangular, 12–22 mm. long, bulla deflexed, 15–25 mm. wide, 6–10 mm. deep, rhomboid to plano-convex, puberulent, terminal facet lenticular to compressed-rhomboid, 1/3–2/3 as wide as the bulla. Female cones cylindrical, about 23 cm. long, 11 cm. diameter, bulla of median scales deflexed, 4.5–5.0 cm. wide, 2.0–2.7 cm. deep, rhomboid, with the adaxial margin rounded, obscurely ridged, the sagittal crest of coarse, rounded warts, abaxial face receding, seminal ridges distinct, tuberculate dentate, terminal facet rhomboid to semi-elliptic, 14–17 mm. wide, lateral lobes triangular to irregular, 3–6 mm. long with lateral facets warty ridged and the angles tuberculate dentate.
Range
DISTR. U1 ;
Altitude range
900–2400 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Acholi District Imatong Mts., Apr. 1938, Greenway 3578 ! & Lomwaga Mt., 6 Apr. 1945, Greenway & Hummel 7295 !UGANDA West Nile District W. Madi, Era Reserve, 18 Aug. 1954, F.D. 2055 !
Distribution (external)
French Sudan
Sudan
northern Belgian Congo
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