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Ochna hackarsii Robyns & Lawalrée [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 hackarsii Robyns & Lawalrée [family OCHNACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 18: 27 (1947); Robyns, F.P.N.A. 1: 614 (1948); van der Ben, Expl. Hydrobiol. Lacs Kivu, Edouard et Albert IV (1): 156 (1959); Bamps, F.C.B. Ochnaceae: 21 (1967). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), plain of Lake Edward, Hackars s.n. (BR, holo., K!, fragment)
Ochna monantha [family OCHNACEAE], sensu I.T.U. ed. 2: 280 (1952), non Gilg
Information
Slender shrub 2–4.5 m tall; bark green, very smooth; slash pink, thin and fibrous; branches purplish brown, graceful, the youngest parts with dense small lenticels, later finely ridged. Leaves thin, copper-coloured when young, elliptic, 3–9 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, narrowed to an acute, subacute or ± rounded apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, crinkly at margin when dry, crenate-serrate, the serrations often ending in inwardly curved teeth, lateral veins and reticulate tertiary venation not very evident, finely raised on both surfaces; petiole 1–3 mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–9 mm long, very shortly 2–3-fimbriate at apex, soon falling. Buds slender, fusiform, ± 7 mm long. Inflorescences 1(–2)-flowered; pedicel 1–1.5 cm (–2.2 cm in fruit) long, jointed 4–10 mm from base. Sepals elliptic, 5–6 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, becoming a brilliant dark rich red in fruit and up to 15 mm long, 8–9 mm wide. Petals yellow, obovate, 9 mm long, 6 mm wide. Anthers 1.5 mm long, opening by apical pores; filaments 2–2.5 mm long. Carpels 5; style 5–6 mm long, 5-fid at apex. Drupelets ovoid, 6–8 mm long, 5–6 mm wide.
Range
DISTR. U 2, 4
Altitude range
750–1300 m
Distribution
UGANDA Bunyoro District Murchison Falls, Apr. 1933, Eggeling 1222 in F.D. 1328!;UGANDA Ankole District Kagera R., Kyanstone I., 26 Oct. 1963, Langdale Brown 161!;UGANDA Mengo District Singo, Bukomero, Apr. 1950, Sangster 1048!
Distribution (external)
E Congo (Kinshasa)
Rwanda
Burundi
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 hackarsii Robyns & Lawalrée [family OCHNACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 18: 27 (1947); Robyns, F.P.N.A. 1: 614 (1948); van der Ben, Expl. Hydrobiol. Lacs Kivu, Edouard et Albert IV (1): 156 (1959); Bamps, F.C.B. Ochnaceae: 21 (1967). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), plain of Lake Edward, Hackars s.n. (BR, holo., K!, fragment)
Ochna monantha [family OCHNACEAE], sensu I.T.U. ed. 2: 280 (1952), non Gilg
Information
Slender shrub 2–4.5 m tall; bark green, very smooth; slash pink, thin and fibrous; branches purplish brown, graceful, the youngest parts with dense small lenticels, later finely ridged. Leaves thin, copper-coloured when young, elliptic, 3–9 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, narrowed to an acute, subacute or ± rounded apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, crinkly at margin when dry, crenate-serrate, the serrations often ending in inwardly curved teeth, lateral veins and reticulate tertiary venation not very evident, finely raised on both surfaces; petiole 1–3 mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–9 mm long, very shortly 2–3-fimbriate at apex, soon falling. Buds slender, fusiform, ± 7 mm long. Inflorescences 1(–2)-flowered; pedicel 1–1.5 cm (–2.2 cm in fruit) long, jointed 4–10 mm from base. Sepals elliptic, 5–6 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, becoming a brilliant dark rich red in fruit and up to 15 mm long, 8–9 mm wide. Petals yellow, obovate, 9 mm long, 6 mm wide. Anthers 1.5 mm long, opening by apical pores; filaments 2–2.5 mm long. Carpels 5; style 5–6 mm long, 5-fid at apex. Drupelets ovoid, 6–8 mm long, 5–6 mm wide.
Range
DISTR. U 2, 4
Altitude range
750–1300 m
Distribution
UGANDA Bunyoro District Murchison Falls, Apr. 1933, Eggeling 1222 in F.D. 1328!;UGANDA Ankole District Kagera R., Kyanstone I., 26 Oct. 1963, Langdale Brown 161!;UGANDA Mengo District Singo, Bukomero, Apr. 1950, Sangster 1048!
Distribution (external)
E Congo (Kinshasa)
Rwanda
Burundi
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 hackarsii Robyns & Lawalrée [family OCHNACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 18: 27 (1947); Robyns, F.P.N.A. 1: 614 (1948); van der Ben, Expl. Hydrobiol. Lacs Kivu, Edouard et Albert IV (1): 156 (1959); Bamps, F.C.B. Ochnaceae: 21 (1967). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), plain of Lake Edward, Hackars s.n. (BR, holo., K!, fragment)
Ochna monantha [family OCHNACEAE], sensu I.T.U. ed. 2: 280 (1952), non Gilg
Information
Slender shrub 2–4.5 m tall; bark green, very smooth; slash pink, thin and fibrous; branches purplish brown, graceful, the youngest parts with dense small lenticels, later finely ridged. Leaves thin, copper-coloured when young, elliptic, 3–9 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, narrowed to an acute, subacute or ± rounded apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, crinkly at margin when dry, crenate-serrate, the serrations often ending in inwardly curved teeth, lateral veins and reticulate tertiary venation not very evident, finely raised on both surfaces; petiole 1–3 mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–9 mm long, very shortly 2–3-fimbriate at apex, soon falling. Buds slender, fusiform, ± 7 mm long. Inflorescences 1(–2)-flowered; pedicel 1–1.5 cm (–2.2 cm in fruit) long, jointed 4–10 mm from base. Sepals elliptic, 5–6 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, becoming a brilliant dark rich red in fruit and up to 15 mm long, 8–9 mm wide. Petals yellow, obovate, 9 mm long, 6 mm wide. Anthers 1.5 mm long, opening by apical pores; filaments 2–2.5 mm long. Carpels 5; style 5–6 mm long, 5-fid at apex. Drupelets ovoid, 6–8 mm long, 5–6 mm wide.
Range
DISTR. U 2, 4
Altitude range
750–1300 m
Distribution
UGANDA Bunyoro District Murchison Falls, Apr. 1933, Eggeling 1222 in F.D. 1328!;UGANDA Ankole District Kagera R., Kyanstone I., 26 Oct. 1963, Langdale Brown 161!;UGANDA Mengo District Singo, Bukomero, Apr. 1950, Sangster 1048!
Distribution (external)
E Congo (Kinshasa)
Rwanda
Burundi
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