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STROMBOSIOPSIS Engl. [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
STROMBOSIOPSIS Engl. [family OLACACEAE], in E. & P. Pf. 1: 148 (1897); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 16B: 19 (1935)
Information
Trees. Leaves petiolate, alternate, entire, coriaceous; veins prominent beneath, tertiary veins ± parallel to one another (as also in Strombosia). Inflorescence axillary, with the flowers borne on short lateral shoots, spike-like. Flowers hermaphrodite, 4–5-merous, sessile or very shortly pedicellate. Calyx cupuliform, slightly lobed, non-accrescent. Petals free, lanceolate-oblong to lanceolate, caducous, apiculate. Stamens 4–5, opposite and equal in number to petals; filaments minute, adnate to petals; anthers dithecous, elongated, introrse. Disk annular, small. Ovary ± submerged in receptacle, 3(–4–5)-locular, basally lobed; lobes episepalous; ovules 1 per locule, pendent, anatropous; stigma short, 3(–4–5)-lobed. Fruit a drupe.
Range
An African genus containing two species, with only one occurring in East Africa.
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
STROMBOSIOPSIS Engl. [family OLACACEAE], in E. & P. Pf. 1: 148 (1897); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 16B: 19 (1935)
Information
Trees. Leaves petiolate, alternate, entire, coriaceous; veins prominent beneath, tertiary veins ± parallel to one another (as also in Strombosia). Inflorescence axillary, with the flowers borne on short lateral shoots, spike-like. Flowers hermaphrodite, 4–5-merous, sessile or very shortly pedicellate. Calyx cupuliform, slightly lobed, non-accrescent. Petals free, lanceolate-oblong to lanceolate, caducous, apiculate. Stamens 4–5, opposite and equal in number to petals; filaments minute, adnate to petals; anthers dithecous, elongated, introrse. Disk annular, small. Ovary ± submerged in receptacle, 3(–4–5)-locular, basally lobed; lobes episepalous; ovules 1 per locule, pendent, anatropous; stigma short, 3(–4–5)-lobed. Fruit a drupe.
Range
An African genus containing two species, with only one occurring in East Africa.
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
STROMBOSIOPSIS Engl. [family OLACACEAE], in E. & P. Pf. 1: 148 (1897); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 16B: 19 (1935)
Information
Trees. Leaves petiolate, alternate, entire, coriaceous; veins prominent beneath, tertiary veins ± parallel to one another (as also in Strombosia). Inflorescence axillary, with the flowers borne on short lateral shoots, spike-like. Flowers hermaphrodite, 4–5-merous, sessile or very shortly pedicellate. Calyx cupuliform, slightly lobed, non-accrescent. Petals free, lanceolate-oblong to lanceolate, caducous, apiculate. Stamens 4–5, opposite and equal in number to petals; filaments minute, adnate to petals; anthers dithecous, elongated, introrse. Disk annular, small. Ovary ± submerged in receptacle, 3(–4–5)-locular, basally lobed; lobes episepalous; ovules 1 per locule, pendent, anatropous; stigma short, 3(–4–5)-lobed. Fruit a drupe.
Range
An African genus containing two species, with only one occurring in East Africa.
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