Edit History
HEISTERIA parvifolia Smith [family OLACACEAE]
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, (1968) Author: G. Ll. Lucas
Names
HEISTERIA parvifolia Smith [family OLACACEAE], in Rees, The Cyclopedia 17, No. 3 (1811); Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 346 (1868); V.E. 3(1): 85, fig. 49 (1915); Louis & J. Léon, in F.C.B. 1: 254 (1948); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 645 (1958). Type: Sierra Leone, Afzelius (BM, holo.!)
Information
Trees or shrubs up to 15 m. high. Young branches slightly winged or ridged. Petiole 5–15 mm. long, canaliculate; leaf-blade glabrous, very variable, elliptic or oblong to lanceolate, 6–25 cm. long and 2.5–12 cm. wide, acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the base, membranous when young, coriaceous when mature with the margin slightly inrolled; lateral veins (5–)6–11 pairs, ± impressed on the upper surface and only slight prominent beneath; tertiary veins laxly reticulate. Flowers creamy white, insignificant; pedicels 1.5–4 mm. long in flower and up to 10 mm. in fruit. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes ± deltoid, whitish, ± 1 mm. long in flower, enlarging to ± 3.0 cm. long and between 0.5 to 1.5 cm. wide, turning reddish-brown to dark red, spreading or enfolding the fruit. Petals oblong-lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm. long, caducous. Stamens in 2 whorls with the episepalous whorl slightly longer than the epipetalous series. Ovary outwardly ± 10-lobed. Fruit a drupe, elliposidal, 1–1.2 cm. long, 0.6–0.8 cm. across. Seed woody, 7–9 mm. long, 4–6 mm. across. Fig. 1.
Range
DISTR. U4 probably the most easterly point of distribution in a range from Senegal to the Congo Republic and Angola
Altitude range
1170 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe Botanic Garden, Aug. 1905, E. Brown 311 !
Notes
This single specimen (taken from a 9 m. tall mature tree only five years after the Botanic Garden was started) indicates that this species occurs in the Flora area, but its rather inconspicuous flowers and habit seem to have eluded collectors.
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, (1968) Author: G. Ll. Lucas
Names
HEISTERIA parvifolia Smith [family OLACACEAE], in Rees, The Cyclopedia 17, No. 3 (1811); Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 346 (1868); V.E. 3(1): 85, fig. 49 (1915); Louis & J. Léon, in F.C.B. 1: 254 (1948); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 645 (1958). Type: Sierra Leone, Afzelius (BM, holo.!)
Information
Trees or shrubs up to 15 m. high. Young branches slightly winged or ridged. Petiole 5–15 mm. long, canaliculate; leaf-blade glabrous, very variable, elliptic or oblong to lanceolate, 6–25 cm. long and 2.5–12 cm. wide, acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the base, membranous when young, coriaceous when mature with the margin slightly inrolled; lateral veins (5–)6–11 pairs, ± impressed on the upper surface and only slight prominent beneath; tertiary veins laxly reticulate. Flowers creamy white, insignificant; pedicels 1.5–4 mm. long in flower and up to 10 mm. in fruit. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes ± deltoid, whitish, ± 1 mm. long in flower, enlarging to ± 3.0 cm. long and between 0.5 to 1.5 cm. wide, turning reddish-brown to dark red, spreading or enfolding the fruit. Petals oblong-lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm. long, caducous. Stamens in 2 whorls with the episepalous whorl slightly longer than the epipetalous series. Ovary outwardly ± 10-lobed. Fruit a drupe, elliposidal, 1–1.2 cm. long, 0.6–0.8 cm. across. Seed woody, 7–9 mm. long, 4–6 mm. across. Fig. 1.
Range
DISTR. U4 probably the most easterly point of distribution in a range from Senegal to the Congo Republic and Angola
Altitude range
1170 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe Botanic Garden, Aug. 1905, E. Brown 311 !
Notes
This single specimen (taken from a 9 m. tall mature tree only five years after the Botanic Garden was started) indicates that this species occurs in the Flora area, but its rather inconspicuous flowers and habit seem to have eluded collectors.
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, (1968) Author: G. Ll. Lucas
Names
HEISTERIA parvifolia Smith [family OLACACEAE], in Rees, The Cyclopedia 17, No. 3 (1811); Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 346 (1868); V.E. 3(1): 85, fig. 49 (1915); Louis & J. Léon, in F.C.B. 1: 254 (1948); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 645 (1958). Type: Sierra Leone, Afzelius (BM, holo.!)
Information
Trees or shrubs up to 15 m. high. Young branches slightly winged or ridged. Petiole 5–15 mm. long, canaliculate; leaf-blade glabrous, very variable, elliptic or oblong to lanceolate, 6–25 cm. long and 2.5–12 cm. wide, acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the base, membranous when young, coriaceous when mature with the margin slightly inrolled; lateral veins (5–)6–11 pairs, ± impressed on the upper surface and only slight prominent beneath; tertiary veins laxly reticulate. Flowers creamy white, insignificant; pedicels 1.5–4 mm. long in flower and up to 10 mm. in fruit. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes ± deltoid, whitish, ± 1 mm. long in flower, enlarging to ± 3.0 cm. long and between 0.5 to 1.5 cm. wide, turning reddish-brown to dark red, spreading or enfolding the fruit. Petals oblong-lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm. long, caducous. Stamens in 2 whorls with the episepalous whorl slightly longer than the epipetalous series. Ovary outwardly ± 10-lobed. Fruit a drupe, elliposidal, 1–1.2 cm. long, 0.6–0.8 cm. across. Seed woody, 7–9 mm. long, 4–6 mm. across. Fig. 1.
Range
DISTR. U4 probably the most easterly point of distribution in a range from Senegal to the Congo Republic and Angola
Altitude range
1170 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe Botanic Garden, Aug. 1905, E. Brown 311 !
Notes
This single specimen (taken from a 9 m. tall mature tree only five years after the Botanic Garden was started) indicates that this species occurs in the Flora area, but its rather inconspicuous flowers and habit seem to have eluded collectors.
╳
We're sorry. You don't appear to have permission to access the item.
Full access to these resources typically requires affiliation with a partnering organization. (For example, researchers are often granted access through their affiliation with a university library.)
If you have an institutional affiliation that provides you access, try logging in via your institution
Have access with an individual account? Login here
If you would like to learn more about access options or believe you received this message in error, please contact us.