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Ochna polyarthra Verdc. [family OCHNACEAE]
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, (2005) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
Ochna polyarthra Verdc. [family OCHNACEAE], sp. nov. in Sect. Ochna ponenda affinis O. massambicensi Klotzsch confinibusque combinatione inflorescentiarum condensarum 30–40-florarum cum petalis parris 9–10 mm longis 4–5.5 latis carpellis undecim distinguitur. Typus: Tanzania, Uzaramo District: Kisarawe Forest Reserve, Mgaza 707 (K!, holo., EA, iso.)
Information
Shrub about 3.6 m tall with grey thick branches with bark ± ridged and peeling; youngest parts without obvious lenticels. Leaves not adult at flowering stage, restricted to youngest part of stems, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, about 9 cm long, 2.3 cm wide, probably ± acute at apex, cuneate at the base, margins with rather sparse aculeate teeth, venation not yet developed and prominent save at extreme base; petiole ± 8 mm long with leaf-base narrowly decurrent; stipules triangular, up to 6 mm long, striate. Flowers on leafless branches on spur shoots so closely placed that they form a tight 30–40-flowered 3.5x4.5 cm cluster at apices of branches; pedicels slender, 17–25 mm long, jointed ± 5 mm from the base. Sepals elliptic-oblong, 8–9 mm long, 2.5–4 mm wide. Petals yellow, elliptic, 9–10 mm long, 4–5.5 mm wide, unguiculate. Anthers slender, 6 mm long, opening by small apical pores, filaments 2.5 mm long. Carpels 11; stigma capitate, ± lobed. Fruits not known.
Range
DISTR. T 6 known only from the type
Altitude range
? under 200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Uzaramo District Kisarawe Forest Reserve, 16 Oct. 1965, Mgaza 707!
Notes
The specific epithet is a plural noun in apposition.
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, (2005) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
Ochna polyarthra Verdc. [family OCHNACEAE], sp. nov. in Sect. Ochna ponenda affinis O. massambicensi Klotzsch confinibusque combinatione inflorescentiarum condensarum 30–40-florarum cum petalis parris 9–10 mm longis 4–5.5 latis carpellis undecim distinguitur. Typus: Tanzania, Uzaramo District: Kisarawe Forest Reserve, Mgaza 707 (K!, holo., EA, iso.)
Information
Shrub about 3.6 m tall with grey thick branches with bark ± ridged and peeling; youngest parts without obvious lenticels. Leaves not adult at flowering stage, restricted to youngest part of stems, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, about 9 cm long, 2.3 cm wide, probably ± acute at apex, cuneate at the base, margins with rather sparse aculeate teeth, venation not yet developed and prominent save at extreme base; petiole ± 8 mm long with leaf-base narrowly decurrent; stipules triangular, up to 6 mm long, striate. Flowers on leafless branches on spur shoots so closely placed that they form a tight 30–40-flowered 3.5x4.5 cm cluster at apices of branches; pedicels slender, 17–25 mm long, jointed ± 5 mm from the base. Sepals elliptic-oblong, 8–9 mm long, 2.5–4 mm wide. Petals yellow, elliptic, 9–10 mm long, 4–5.5 mm wide, unguiculate. Anthers slender, 6 mm long, opening by small apical pores, filaments 2.5 mm long. Carpels 11; stigma capitate, ± lobed. Fruits not known.
Range
DISTR. T 6 known only from the type
Altitude range
? under 200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Uzaramo District Kisarawe Forest Reserve, 16 Oct. 1965, Mgaza 707!
Notes
The specific epithet is a plural noun in apposition.
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, (2005) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
Ochna polyarthra Verdc. [family OCHNACEAE], sp. nov. in Sect. Ochna ponenda affinis O. massambicensi Klotzsch confinibusque combinatione inflorescentiarum condensarum 30–40-florarum cum petalis parris 9–10 mm longis 4–5.5 latis carpellis undecim distinguitur. Typus: Tanzania, Uzaramo District: Kisarawe Forest Reserve, Mgaza 707 (K!, holo., EA, iso.)
Information
Shrub about 3.6 m tall with grey thick branches with bark ± ridged and peeling; youngest parts without obvious lenticels. Leaves not adult at flowering stage, restricted to youngest part of stems, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, about 9 cm long, 2.3 cm wide, probably ± acute at apex, cuneate at the base, margins with rather sparse aculeate teeth, venation not yet developed and prominent save at extreme base; petiole ± 8 mm long with leaf-base narrowly decurrent; stipules triangular, up to 6 mm long, striate. Flowers on leafless branches on spur shoots so closely placed that they form a tight 30–40-flowered 3.5x4.5 cm cluster at apices of branches; pedicels slender, 17–25 mm long, jointed ± 5 mm from the base. Sepals elliptic-oblong, 8–9 mm long, 2.5–4 mm wide. Petals yellow, elliptic, 9–10 mm long, 4–5.5 mm wide, unguiculate. Anthers slender, 6 mm long, opening by small apical pores, filaments 2.5 mm long. Carpels 11; stigma capitate, ± lobed. Fruits not known.
Range
DISTR. T 6 known only from the type
Altitude range
? under 200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Uzaramo District Kisarawe Forest Reserve, 16 Oct. 1965, Mgaza 707!
Notes
The specific epithet is a plural noun in apposition.
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