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CHRYSOPHYLLUM viridifolium Wood & Franks [family SAPOTACEAE]
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: J. H. Hemsley
Names
CHRYSOPHYLLUM viridifolium Wood & Franks [family SAPOTACEAE], in Wood, Natal Plants 6, t. 569 (1912); Gerstner in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 12: 48–49, fig. 3 (1946); Meeuse in Bothalia 7: 328 (1960); K.T.S.: 525 (1961); Meeuse in F.S.A. 26: 35 (1963). Type: South Africa, Natal, near Durban, Franks in Gov. Herb. 12520 (NH, holo., K, iso.!)
Chrysophyllum pruniforme [family SAPOTACEAE], [sensu T.S.K.: 119 (1936), non Engl.]
Chrysophyllum welwitschii [family SAPOTACEAE], [sensu Gomes e Sousa, Essen. Flor. Inhambane: 19 (1943), non Engl.]
Donella viridifolia (Wood & Franks) Aubrév. & Pellegr. [family SAPOTACEAE], in Not. Syst. 16: 248 (1960)
Information
Small to medium tree, height up to 20 m., with fluted trunk and grey bark. Young shoots, buds and young petioles with ferrugineous pubescence; older branches and petioles becoming glabrous. Petioles 4–10 mm. long. Leaf-lamina oblong to oblong-elliptic, 4–9.5 cm. long, 1.5–4.5 cm. wide, thinly coriaceous, apex tapered and acute to acuminate, base broadly cuneate and usually unequal; upper and lower surfaces glabrous, except on midrib beneath; lateral nerves very numerous and closely parallel, ± straight and slightly arcuate, scarcely ascending. Flowers very small and greenish, clustered in axils of current leaves or at old nodes; pedicels slender, 1.5–3.5 mm. long, puberulous. Sepals ± free to base, suborbicular, ± 2 mm. long, externally puberulous. Corolla-tube ± 1.5 mm. long; lobes rounded, ± 1 mm. long, ciliate. Free part of filaments ±1.5 mm. long, flattened; staminodes absent. Ovary subconical, densely pilose, tapering to a short thick style, ±1.5 mm. long. Fruit shortly stalked, yellow when ripe, subglobose, up to 3.5 cm. in diameter, glabrous. Seeds shiny brown, ± ellipsoid, but straight along one margin, laterally compressed, up to 1.8 cm. long; curved margin acute and ± keeled; scar lateral on straight margin, narrowly oblanceolate.
Range
DISTR. K4 Mozambique, Rhodesia and south to Natal
Altitude range
1500–1700 m.
Distribution
KENYA Fort Hall/Kiambu District Thika R. [gorge], 3 Mar. 1955 (fr.), Nicholson 63 !KENYA Kiambu/Nairobi District Karura Forest, Gardner in Battiscombe 938 !KENYA Nairobi Arboretum, May 1941 (fl.), Gardner 1179 in C.M. 16904!
Notes
Closely related to C. pruniforme Engl., differing only in a few details. The leaves of C. viridifolium dry green or greenish-brown, cf. darkening of C. pruniforme. The midrib of the leaf upper-surface is sunken and channelled in C. viridifolium, slightly raised or flush with the blade in C. pruniforme. The leaf-apex is usually long and tapering into a narrow acumen in C. pruniforme, while the leaf of C. viridifolium has a shorter and blunter acumen. The fruits of C. viridifolium are smaller, subglobose, cf. the ovoid to ellipsoid shapes of C. pruniforme.
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: J. H. Hemsley
Names
CHRYSOPHYLLUM viridifolium Wood & Franks [family SAPOTACEAE], in Wood, Natal Plants 6, t. 569 (1912); Gerstner in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 12: 48–49, fig. 3 (1946); Meeuse in Bothalia 7: 328 (1960); K.T.S.: 525 (1961); Meeuse in F.S.A. 26: 35 (1963). Type: South Africa, Natal, near Durban, Franks in Gov. Herb. 12520 (NH, holo., K, iso.!)
Chrysophyllum pruniforme [family SAPOTACEAE], [sensu T.S.K.: 119 (1936), non Engl.]
Chrysophyllum welwitschii [family SAPOTACEAE], [sensu Gomes e Sousa, Essen. Flor. Inhambane: 19 (1943), non Engl.]
Donella viridifolia (Wood & Franks) Aubrév. & Pellegr. [family SAPOTACEAE], in Not. Syst. 16: 248 (1960)
Information
Small to medium tree, height up to 20 m., with fluted trunk and grey bark. Young shoots, buds and young petioles with ferrugineous pubescence; older branches and petioles becoming glabrous. Petioles 4–10 mm. long. Leaf-lamina oblong to oblong-elliptic, 4–9.5 cm. long, 1.5–4.5 cm. wide, thinly coriaceous, apex tapered and acute to acuminate, base broadly cuneate and usually unequal; upper and lower surfaces glabrous, except on midrib beneath; lateral nerves very numerous and closely parallel, ± straight and slightly arcuate, scarcely ascending. Flowers very small and greenish, clustered in axils of current leaves or at old nodes; pedicels slender, 1.5–3.5 mm. long, puberulous. Sepals ± free to base, suborbicular, ± 2 mm. long, externally puberulous. Corolla-tube ± 1.5 mm. long; lobes rounded, ± 1 mm. long, ciliate. Free part of filaments ±1.5 mm. long, flattened; staminodes absent. Ovary subconical, densely pilose, tapering to a short thick style, ±1.5 mm. long. Fruit shortly stalked, yellow when ripe, subglobose, up to 3.5 cm. in diameter, glabrous. Seeds shiny brown, ± ellipsoid, but straight along one margin, laterally compressed, up to 1.8 cm. long; curved margin acute and ± keeled; scar lateral on straight margin, narrowly oblanceolate.
Range
DISTR. K4 Mozambique, Rhodesia and south to Natal
Altitude range
1500–1700 m.
Distribution
KENYA Fort Hall/Kiambu District Thika R. [gorge], 3 Mar. 1955 (fr.), Nicholson 63 !KENYA Kiambu/Nairobi District Karura Forest, Gardner in Battiscombe 938 !KENYA Nairobi Arboretum, May 1941 (fl.), Gardner 1179 in C.M. 16904!
Notes
Closely related to C. pruniforme Engl., differing only in a few details. The leaves of C. viridifolium dry green or greenish-brown, cf. darkening of C. pruniforme. The midrib of the leaf upper-surface is sunken and channelled in C. viridifolium, slightly raised or flush with the blade in C. pruniforme. The leaf-apex is usually long and tapering into a narrow acumen in C. pruniforme, while the leaf of C. viridifolium has a shorter and blunter acumen. The fruits of C. viridifolium are smaller, subglobose, cf. the ovoid to ellipsoid shapes of C. pruniforme.
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: J. H. Hemsley
Names
CHRYSOPHYLLUM viridifolium Wood & Franks [family SAPOTACEAE], in Wood, Natal Plants 6, t. 569 (1912); Gerstner in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 12: 48–49, fig. 3 (1946); Meeuse in Bothalia 7: 328 (1960); K.T.S.: 525 (1961); Meeuse in F.S.A. 26: 35 (1963). Type: South Africa, Natal, near Durban, Franks in Gov. Herb. 12520 (NH, holo., K, iso.!)
Chrysophyllum pruniforme [family SAPOTACEAE], [sensu T.S.K.: 119 (1936), non Engl.]
Chrysophyllum welwitschii [family SAPOTACEAE], [sensu Gomes e Sousa, Essen. Flor. Inhambane: 19 (1943), non Engl.]
Donella viridifolia (Wood & Franks) Aubrév. & Pellegr. [family SAPOTACEAE], in Not. Syst. 16: 248 (1960)
Information
Small to medium tree, height up to 20 m., with fluted trunk and grey bark. Young shoots, buds and young petioles with ferrugineous pubescence; older branches and petioles becoming glabrous. Petioles 4–10 mm. long. Leaf-lamina oblong to oblong-elliptic, 4–9.5 cm. long, 1.5–4.5 cm. wide, thinly coriaceous, apex tapered and acute to acuminate, base broadly cuneate and usually unequal; upper and lower surfaces glabrous, except on midrib beneath; lateral nerves very numerous and closely parallel, ± straight and slightly arcuate, scarcely ascending. Flowers very small and greenish, clustered in axils of current leaves or at old nodes; pedicels slender, 1.5–3.5 mm. long, puberulous. Sepals ± free to base, suborbicular, ± 2 mm. long, externally puberulous. Corolla-tube ± 1.5 mm. long; lobes rounded, ± 1 mm. long, ciliate. Free part of filaments ±1.5 mm. long, flattened; staminodes absent. Ovary subconical, densely pilose, tapering to a short thick style, ±1.5 mm. long. Fruit shortly stalked, yellow when ripe, subglobose, up to 3.5 cm. in diameter, glabrous. Seeds shiny brown, ± ellipsoid, but straight along one margin, laterally compressed, up to 1.8 cm. long; curved margin acute and ± keeled; scar lateral on straight margin, narrowly oblanceolate.
Range
DISTR. K4 Mozambique, Rhodesia and south to Natal
Altitude range
1500–1700 m.
Distribution
KENYA Fort Hall/Kiambu District Thika R. [gorge], 3 Mar. 1955 (fr.), Nicholson 63 !KENYA Kiambu/Nairobi District Karura Forest, Gardner in Battiscombe 938 !KENYA Nairobi Arboretum, May 1941 (fl.), Gardner 1179 in C.M. 16904!
Notes
Closely related to C. pruniforme Engl., differing only in a few details. The leaves of C. viridifolium dry green or greenish-brown, cf. darkening of C. pruniforme. The midrib of the leaf upper-surface is sunken and channelled in C. viridifolium, slightly raised or flush with the blade in C. pruniforme. The leaf-apex is usually long and tapering into a narrow acumen in C. pruniforme, while the leaf of C. viridifolium has a shorter and blunter acumen. The fruits of C. viridifolium are smaller, subglobose, cf. the ovoid to ellipsoid shapes of C. pruniforme.
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