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DIOSPYROS loureiriana subsp. loureiriana [family EBENACEAE]

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, (1996) Author: F. White and B. Verdcourt
Names
DIOSPYROS loureiriana subsp. loureiriana [family EBENACEAE] DIOSPYROS lotus [family EBENACEAE], sensu Lour., Fl. Cochinch.: 22 (1790), non L. D macrocalyx Klotzsch [family ], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1: 182 (1861), nom. illegit., non A. DC. Type: Mozambique, near Sena, Peters (B, holo.† ) D loureiriana (Klotzsch) Hiern forma macrocalyx [family ], in J.B. 13: 355 (1875) & in F.T.A. 3: 522 (1877) Royena macrocalyx (Klotzsch) Gürke [family EBENACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 305 (1895) & in E.J. 26: 62 (1898) Royena macrocalyx Gürke [family EBENACEAE], ; B.L. Burtt in K.B. 1935: 287 (1935) (treated as nom. nov.) DIOSPYROS usambarensis F. White [family EBENACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 33: 366 (1963); K. Coates Palgrave, Trees Southern Afr.: 753 (1977); F. White in F.Z. 7(1): 266 (1983). Type as for D. macrocalyx Klotzsch DIOSPYROS usambarensis subsp. usambarensis [family EBENACEAE], ; F. White & Caveney in B.J.B.B. 50: 396 (1980); F. White in F.Z. 7(1): 268, t. 59B (1983)
Information
Branchlets and inflorescence-axes with short mostly spreading hairs; leaves nearly always dryinggreenish black, obovate, usually shortly and abruptly acuminate at the apex; lower surface ± glabrous on lamina but with short hairs on main nerves. Fig. 6/3-4.
Range
DISTR. T 8;
Altitude range
150-650 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Masasi District Chidya, Kambona Forest Reserve, Mar. 1991, Bidgood et al. 1927!;TANZANIA Lindi District 8 km. W. of Mtama, 14 Dec. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 7651!;TANZANIA district uncertain: Rovuma R., Mar. 1861, Kirk !
Distribution (external)
Mozambique Zimbabwe
Notes
I am convinced that G. Don’ s D. loureiriana is the same as D. macrocalyx Klotzsch despite the arguments to the contrary by both B.L. Burtt and F. White. It is well known that Loureiro’ s descriptions are very often faulty but nothing else exists on the Mozambique coast which could have been mistaken for a variety of D. lotus L. Unfortunately no specimens of Loureiro’ s plant are preserved either in Paris or the British Museum. At least the procedure obviates the absurdity of having to restrict the epithet subsp usambarensis to the subSPECIES not occurring in the Usambaras (see F.W. White in F.Z. 7(1): 266 adnot. (1983)). [B.V.]
DIOSPYROS loureiriana subsp. loureiriana [family EBENACEAE]
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