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APORRHIZA Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
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, (1998) Author: DAVIES & B. VERDCOURT
Names
APORRHIZA Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Sitz. Akad. Wiss. München 8: 338 (1878) & in E.P. IV, 165: 1134 (1933)
Information
Small to medium-sized, monoecious trees. Leaves with 2–7(–11) pairs of entire coriaceous leaflets. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, paniculate. Flowers regular; sepals 5, nearly free, densely pubescent; petals 5, clawed, with a small to equally large bilobed scale, shaggy-hairy in the lower half; disk glabrous, lobed. Stamens (6–)7–8; filaments folded in bud; anthers oblong, sagittate at the base, glabrous. Ovary bilobed, bilocular; style short. Fruit with 2 (or 1 by abortion) diverging compressed dehiscent mericarps, externally pubescent with either grey, green or golden hairs, glabrous and reddish inside. Seeds black, bean-shaped, more than half covered by a yellow or orange aril.
Range
About 6 species in tropical Africa, poorly known apart from A. paniculata; there is a shortage of flowering material in herbaria.
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, (1998) Author: DAVIES & B. VERDCOURT
Names
APORRHIZA Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Sitz. Akad. Wiss. München 8: 338 (1878) & in E.P. IV, 165: 1134 (1933)
Information
Small to medium-sized, monoecious trees. Leaves with 2–7(–11) pairs of entire coriaceous leaflets. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, paniculate. Flowers regular; sepals 5, nearly free, densely pubescent; petals 5, clawed, with a small to equally large bilobed scale, shaggy-hairy in the lower half; disk glabrous, lobed. Stamens (6–)7–8; filaments folded in bud; anthers oblong, sagittate at the base, glabrous. Ovary bilobed, bilocular; style short. Fruit with 2 (or 1 by abortion) diverging compressed dehiscent mericarps, externally pubescent with either grey, green or golden hairs, glabrous and reddish inside. Seeds black, bean-shaped, more than half covered by a yellow or orange aril.
Range
About 6 species in tropical Africa, poorly known apart from A. paniculata; there is a shortage of flowering material in herbaria.
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, (1998) Author: DAVIES & B. VERDCOURT
Names
APORRHIZA Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Sitz. Akad. Wiss. München 8: 338 (1878) & in E.P. IV, 165: 1134 (1933)
Information
Small to medium-sized, monoecious trees. Leaves with 2–7(–11) pairs of entire coriaceous leaflets. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, paniculate. Flowers regular; sepals 5, nearly free, densely pubescent; petals 5, clawed, with a small to equally large bilobed scale, shaggy-hairy in the lower half; disk glabrous, lobed. Stamens (6–)7–8; filaments folded in bud; anthers oblong, sagittate at the base, glabrous. Ovary bilobed, bilocular; style short. Fruit with 2 (or 1 by abortion) diverging compressed dehiscent mericarps, externally pubescent with either grey, green or golden hairs, glabrous and reddish inside. Seeds black, bean-shaped, more than half covered by a yellow or orange aril.
Range
About 6 species in tropical Africa, poorly known apart from A. paniculata; there is a shortage of flowering material in herbaria.
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