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APODYTES dimidiata Arn. [family ICACINACEAE]
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
APODYTES dimidiata Arn. [family ICACINACEAE], in Hook., Journ. Bot. 3: 155 (1840); F.T.A. 1: 355 (1868), pro parte, excl. specim. Schimper; P.O.A. C: 248 (1895); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 20B: 367, fig. 103/C–E (1942); T.T.C.L.: 251 (1949); I.T.U., ed. 2: 161, t. 7 (1952); E.P.A.: 487 (1958); Boutique in F.C.B. 9: 273 (1960); K.T.S.: 238, fig. 47, t. 14 (1961); F.F.N.R.: 221 (1962); Mendes in F.Z. 2: 343, t. 72 (1963). Type: South Africa, Durban [Port Natal], Drège (K, syn.!)
Information
Trees or much branched shrubs up to 25 m. high, the larger trees with fluted trunks. Bark smooth, grey; young branches glabrous to sparsely pubescent; older branches grey-brown with pale lenticels. Leaf-blade very variable, ovate-elliptic or broadly elliptic to oblong, 2–15 cm. long, 1.5–8 cm. wide, shortly acuminate or acute to obtuse, cuneate, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, the margin slightly recurved, with the midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, and the secondary veins inconspicuous, turning black on drying. Flowers many, usually in terminal panicles, rarely axillary, shortly pedicellate or sessile, sweet-scented; bracts minute or absent. Calyx small, up to 0.5 mm. long, with 5 deltoid lobes. Petals 5, free, white, drying black, linear, ± 5 mm. long and 1 mm. wide. Ovary ovoid, up to 0.7 mm. long; style eccentric, with the stigmatic surface slightly enlarged at apex, persistent. Fruit oblique, asymmetric, oblong-obovate, laterally compressed, 5–11 mm. long, 5–9 mm. high, 3–4 mm. wide, glabrous or pubescent, black with the lateral lobe red.
Notes
VARIATION (of species as a whole). Leaf-shape, often so distinctive in outline, is of no value in separating these varieties. Specimens with typically acute leaf-apices from Ethiopia, with glabrous ovaries, have their counterparts with pubescent ovaries in T1 and 4. There is a marked geographical trend, however, with specimens from South Africa all having pubescent ovaries (var. dimidiata), while as one moves northwards this material is replaced by the form with glabrous ovaries (var. acutifolia), until in Ethiopia only var. acutifolia is to be found. Where the two varieties occur side by side, intermediates may well be found in the Flora area.
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
APODYTES dimidiata Arn. [family ICACINACEAE], in Hook., Journ. Bot. 3: 155 (1840); F.T.A. 1: 355 (1868), pro parte, excl. specim. Schimper; P.O.A. C: 248 (1895); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 20B: 367, fig. 103/C–E (1942); T.T.C.L.: 251 (1949); I.T.U., ed. 2: 161, t. 7 (1952); E.P.A.: 487 (1958); Boutique in F.C.B. 9: 273 (1960); K.T.S.: 238, fig. 47, t. 14 (1961); F.F.N.R.: 221 (1962); Mendes in F.Z. 2: 343, t. 72 (1963). Type: South Africa, Durban [Port Natal], Drège (K, syn.!)
Information
Trees or much branched shrubs up to 25 m. high, the larger trees with fluted trunks. Bark smooth, grey; young branches glabrous to sparsely pubescent; older branches grey-brown with pale lenticels. Leaf-blade very variable, ovate-elliptic or broadly elliptic to oblong, 2–15 cm. long, 1.5–8 cm. wide, shortly acuminate or acute to obtuse, cuneate, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, the margin slightly recurved, with the midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, and the secondary veins inconspicuous, turning black on drying. Flowers many, usually in terminal panicles, rarely axillary, shortly pedicellate or sessile, sweet-scented; bracts minute or absent. Calyx small, up to 0.5 mm. long, with 5 deltoid lobes. Petals 5, free, white, drying black, linear, ± 5 mm. long and 1 mm. wide. Ovary ovoid, up to 0.7 mm. long; style eccentric, with the stigmatic surface slightly enlarged at apex, persistent. Fruit oblique, asymmetric, oblong-obovate, laterally compressed, 5–11 mm. long, 5–9 mm. high, 3–4 mm. wide, glabrous or pubescent, black with the lateral lobe red.
Notes
VARIATION (of species as a whole). Leaf-shape, often so distinctive in outline, is of no value in separating these varieties. Specimens with typically acute leaf-apices from Ethiopia, with glabrous ovaries, have their counterparts with pubescent ovaries in T1 and 4. There is a marked geographical trend, however, with specimens from South Africa all having pubescent ovaries (var. dimidiata), while as one moves northwards this material is replaced by the form with glabrous ovaries (var. acutifolia), until in Ethiopia only var. acutifolia is to be found. Where the two varieties occur side by side, intermediates may well be found in the Flora area.
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
APODYTES dimidiata Arn. [family ICACINACEAE], in Hook., Journ. Bot. 3: 155 (1840); F.T.A. 1: 355 (1868), pro parte, excl. specim. Schimper; P.O.A. C: 248 (1895); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 20B: 367, fig. 103/C–E (1942); T.T.C.L.: 251 (1949); I.T.U., ed. 2: 161, t. 7 (1952); E.P.A.: 487 (1958); Boutique in F.C.B. 9: 273 (1960); K.T.S.: 238, fig. 47, t. 14 (1961); F.F.N.R.: 221 (1962); Mendes in F.Z. 2: 343, t. 72 (1963). Type: South Africa, Durban [Port Natal], Drège (K, syn.!)
Information
Trees or much branched shrubs up to 25 m. high, the larger trees with fluted trunks. Bark smooth, grey; young branches glabrous to sparsely pubescent; older branches grey-brown with pale lenticels. Leaf-blade very variable, ovate-elliptic or broadly elliptic to oblong, 2–15 cm. long, 1.5–8 cm. wide, shortly acuminate or acute to obtuse, cuneate, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, the margin slightly recurved, with the midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, and the secondary veins inconspicuous, turning black on drying. Flowers many, usually in terminal panicles, rarely axillary, shortly pedicellate or sessile, sweet-scented; bracts minute or absent. Calyx small, up to 0.5 mm. long, with 5 deltoid lobes. Petals 5, free, white, drying black, linear, ± 5 mm. long and 1 mm. wide. Ovary ovoid, up to 0.7 mm. long; style eccentric, with the stigmatic surface slightly enlarged at apex, persistent. Fruit oblique, asymmetric, oblong-obovate, laterally compressed, 5–11 mm. long, 5–9 mm. high, 3–4 mm. wide, glabrous or pubescent, black with the lateral lobe red.
Notes
VARIATION (of species as a whole). Leaf-shape, often so distinctive in outline, is of no value in separating these varieties. Specimens with typically acute leaf-apices from Ethiopia, with glabrous ovaries, have their counterparts with pubescent ovaries in T1 and 4. There is a marked geographical trend, however, with specimens from South Africa all having pubescent ovaries (var. dimidiata), while as one moves northwards this material is replaced by the form with glabrous ovaries (var. acutifolia), until in Ethiopia only var. acutifolia is to be found. Where the two varieties occur side by side, intermediates may well be found in the Flora area.
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