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Ochna monantha Gilg [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 monantha Gilg [family OCHNACEAE], in E.J. 33: 247 (1903); T.T.C.L.: 384 (1949). Types: Tanzania, ?Moshi District: ‘Massaisteppe’ between Kilimanjaro and Meru, Merker s.n. & Iringa District: Uhehe, Lukosse R., Goetze 476 (both B†, syn.) Ochna atropurpurea [family OCHNACEAE], sensu Engl. quoad Goetze 476 in E.J. 30: 356 (1901), non DC.
Information
Divaricately-branched shrub up to 1 m tall; stems grey, very densely lenticellate. Leaves immature at flowering time, elliptic, 1.8–2.3 cm long, 1.1–1.4 cm wide, ± rounded at the apex and base, obsoletely regular-serrulate at the margin; petiole ± 2 mm long. Flowers solitary at ends of short twigs; pedicels 1.3–1.4 cm long. Sepals ovate, 5.5 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, rounded. Petals yellow, broadly obovate, 11–12 mm long, 8–9 mm wide, rounded or retuse at the apex, narrowly long-unguiculate at the base. Anthers oblong, 1–1.2 mm long, dehiscing by apical pores; filaments 3 mm long. Styles joined, 4 mm long, free for a short distance at apex. Ovary 5-lobed; fruits not seen.
Range
DISTR. T 2, 7 not known elsewhere (but see Note)
Altitude range
± 800 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Moshi District between Kilimanjaro and Meru, Merker s.n.;TANZANIA Iringa District Uhehe, Lukosse R., 13 Jan. 1899, Goetze 476
Notes
I think this is probably O. inermis (Forssk.) Schweinf. but it could be a form of O. ovata F. Hoffm.; material cited as O. monantha in I.T.U. ed. 2: 280 (1952) is O. hackarsii Robyns & Lawalrée.
Ochna monantha Gilg [family OCHNACEAE]
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