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Olax pentandra Sleumer [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
Olax pentandra Sleumer [family OLACACEAE], in F.R. 38: 208 (1935); T.T.C.L.: 387(1949).
Information
Since going to press a fruiting specimen of Olax, Migeod 1007, has been found among the indeterminate material at the British Museum (Natural History). This provides evidence that O. pentandra Sleumer, based on Schlieben 5205 (B, holo.!, BM, iso.!) is specifically distinct from O. dissitiflora. It may be distinguished by the subsessile leaves, shorter pedicels (3–4 mm., not 6–10 mm. long) and the inflated calyx, which completely encloses the fruit and is up to 1.8 cm. long (not almost enclosing fruit and up to 9 mm. long); the stomatal pattern is also quite different. It seems in fact to have more affinity with certain W. African species, such as O. mannii Oliv.
Range
DISTR. T8 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
180–240 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Lindi District Tendaguru, 25 Nov. 1930, Migeod 1007! & Lake Lutamba, 1 Sept. 1934, Schlieben 5205! (also wood specimen 365 (B))

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
Olax pentandra Sleumer [family OLACACEAE], in F.R. 38: 208 (1935); T.T.C.L.: 387(1949).
Information
Since going to press a fruiting specimen of Olax, Migeod 1007, has been found among the indeterminate material at the British Museum (Natural History). This provides evidence that O. pentandra Sleumer, based on Schlieben 5205 (B, holo.!, BM, iso.!) is specifically distinct from O. dissitiflora. It may be distinguished by the subsessile leaves, shorter pedicels (3–4 mm., not 6–10 mm. long) and the inflated calyx, which completely encloses the fruit and is up to 1.8 cm. long (not almost enclosing fruit and up to 9 mm. long); the stomatal pattern is also quite different. It seems in fact to have more affinity with certain W. African species, such as O. mannii Oliv.
Range
DISTR. T8 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
180–240 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Lindi District Tendaguru, 25 Nov. 1930, Migeod 1007! & Lake Lutamba, 1 Sept. 1934, Schlieben 5205! (also wood specimen 365 (B))

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
Olax pentandra Sleumer [family OLACACEAE], in F.R. 38: 208 (1935); T.T.C.L.: 387(1949).
Information
Since going to press a fruiting specimen of Olax, Migeod 1007, has been found among the indeterminate material at the British Museum (Natural History). This provides evidence that O. pentandra Sleumer, based on Schlieben 5205 (B, holo.!, BM, iso.!) is specifically distinct from O. dissitiflora. It may be distinguished by the subsessile leaves, shorter pedicels (3–4 mm., not 6–10 mm. long) and the inflated calyx, which completely encloses the fruit and is up to 1.8 cm. long (not almost enclosing fruit and up to 9 mm. long); the stomatal pattern is also quite different. It seems in fact to have more affinity with certain W. African species, such as O. mannii Oliv.
Range
DISTR. T8 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
180–240 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Lindi District Tendaguru, 25 Nov. 1930, Migeod 1007! & Lake Lutamba, 1 Sept. 1934, Schlieben 5205! (also wood specimen 365 (B))
Olax pentandra Sleumer [family OLACACEAE]
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