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PANCOVIA Willd. [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
PANCOVIA Willd. [family SAPINDACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 2: 285 (1799); Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 799 (1932), nom. conserv .
Erioglossum [family SAPINDACEAE], [sensu G.P. 1: 396 (1862) pro parte quoad spec. ex Africa; Baker in F.T.A. 1: 420 (1868) quoad E. cauliflorum, non Blume]
Information
Small trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate; leaflets entire. Inflorescences axillary, terminal or from older wood. Flowers slightly zygomorphic; calyx of (4–)5 partly united sepals, the sinuses between lobes unequal; petals (3–)4, clawed, scale lobed or elaborately fringed and appendaged on the abaxial surface; disk variously semicircular or complete, variable within same species. Stamens 7–11; filaments nearly glabrous to densely hairy. Ovary 3-lobed; style shortly 3-fid at the apex. Fruit indehiscent, either 1–3 mericarps free from the base to narrowly joined for 2/3 their length, or a 3-lobed drupe.
Range
About 13 species in tropical Africa, especially in the west; one extending to temperate South Africa.
Notes
The genus is one of great difficulty and no proper account will be possible until correlated open male and female flowers and fruits are available from every locality from which they are recorded. A great deal of material is only in bud. This account is unsatisfactory.
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
PANCOVIA Willd. [family SAPINDACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 2: 285 (1799); Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 799 (1932), nom. conserv .
Erioglossum [family SAPINDACEAE], [sensu G.P. 1: 396 (1862) pro parte quoad spec. ex Africa; Baker in F.T.A. 1: 420 (1868) quoad E. cauliflorum, non Blume]
Information
Small trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate; leaflets entire. Inflorescences axillary, terminal or from older wood. Flowers slightly zygomorphic; calyx of (4–)5 partly united sepals, the sinuses between lobes unequal; petals (3–)4, clawed, scale lobed or elaborately fringed and appendaged on the abaxial surface; disk variously semicircular or complete, variable within same species. Stamens 7–11; filaments nearly glabrous to densely hairy. Ovary 3-lobed; style shortly 3-fid at the apex. Fruit indehiscent, either 1–3 mericarps free from the base to narrowly joined for 2/3 their length, or a 3-lobed drupe.
Range
About 13 species in tropical Africa, especially in the west; one extending to temperate South Africa.
Notes
The genus is one of great difficulty and no proper account will be possible until correlated open male and female flowers and fruits are available from every locality from which they are recorded. A great deal of material is only in bud. This account is unsatisfactory.
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
PANCOVIA Willd. [family SAPINDACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 2: 285 (1799); Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 799 (1932), nom. conserv .
Erioglossum [family SAPINDACEAE], [sensu G.P. 1: 396 (1862) pro parte quoad spec. ex Africa; Baker in F.T.A. 1: 420 (1868) quoad E. cauliflorum, non Blume]
Information
Small trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate; leaflets entire. Inflorescences axillary, terminal or from older wood. Flowers slightly zygomorphic; calyx of (4–)5 partly united sepals, the sinuses between lobes unequal; petals (3–)4, clawed, scale lobed or elaborately fringed and appendaged on the abaxial surface; disk variously semicircular or complete, variable within same species. Stamens 7–11; filaments nearly glabrous to densely hairy. Ovary 3-lobed; style shortly 3-fid at the apex. Fruit indehiscent, either 1–3 mericarps free from the base to narrowly joined for 2/3 their length, or a 3-lobed drupe.
Range
About 13 species in tropical Africa, especially in the west; one extending to temperate South Africa.
Notes
The genus is one of great difficulty and no proper account will be possible until correlated open male and female flowers and fruits are available from every locality from which they are recorded. A great deal of material is only in bud. This account is unsatisfactory.
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