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Ochna rovumensis 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 rovumensis Gilg [family OCHNACEAE], in E.J. 33: 246 (1903); T.T.C.L.: 384 (1949); Robson in F.Z. 2: 238, t. 44 fig. B (1963); Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 25 (1980). Type: Tanzania, Masasi District: Rovuma R., near Makotschera, Busse 1298 (B†, holo., EA!, iso.)
Information
Shrub or tree 1.5–15 m tall with smooth grey bark with lighter patches; branches ± spreading or ascending, whitish or pale brown, glabrous, slightly peeling or puberulous in some specimens from Flora Zambesiaca area. Leaves thin, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 3–7 cm long, 1.3–3.5 cm wide, rounded to acute at the apex and sometimes shortly mucronate-aristate at tip, cuneate to rounded at the base, subentire or finely serrulate at margin, main and subsidiary lateral veins and intervening tertiary reticulate venation ± prominent on both surfaces; petiole 2–4 mm long. Flowers solitary on very short axillary shoots near tops of branches; pedicels 1–1.8 cm long, glabrous or rarely puberulous (not in East Africa), jointed at base. Sepals broadly elliptic, rounded, (0.9 fide Robson–)1.5–2 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, navicular; remaining ± closed so flower is ellipsoid, eventually becoming red and 2–3 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, at length ± spreading. Petals bright yellow, obovate, 26 mm long, 15 mm wide. Anthers 1.5–2 mm long, 1/4–1/2 as long as filaments, dehiscing by apical pores. Carpels 5; styles free towards apex, the ends spreading, with small stigmas. Drupelets ovoid-cylindric, 10 mm long, 6 mm wide.
Range
DISTR. T 6, 8
Altitude range
150–600 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Kilosa District along R. Ruaha, 10 Jan. 1956, Benedicto 101!;TANZANIA Kilwa District ± 19 km SSW of Kingupira, 28 Nov. 1976, Vollesen MRC 4170!;TANZANIA Masasi District near Makotschera, Feb. 1901, Busse 1298!
Distribution (external)
Mozambique
Malawi
Zimbabwe
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 rovumensis Gilg [family OCHNACEAE], in E.J. 33: 246 (1903); T.T.C.L.: 384 (1949); Robson in F.Z. 2: 238, t. 44 fig. B (1963); Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 25 (1980). Type: Tanzania, Masasi District: Rovuma R., near Makotschera, Busse 1298 (B†, holo., EA!, iso.)
Information
Shrub or tree 1.5–15 m tall with smooth grey bark with lighter patches; branches ± spreading or ascending, whitish or pale brown, glabrous, slightly peeling or puberulous in some specimens from Flora Zambesiaca area. Leaves thin, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 3–7 cm long, 1.3–3.5 cm wide, rounded to acute at the apex and sometimes shortly mucronate-aristate at tip, cuneate to rounded at the base, subentire or finely serrulate at margin, main and subsidiary lateral veins and intervening tertiary reticulate venation ± prominent on both surfaces; petiole 2–4 mm long. Flowers solitary on very short axillary shoots near tops of branches; pedicels 1–1.8 cm long, glabrous or rarely puberulous (not in East Africa), jointed at base. Sepals broadly elliptic, rounded, (0.9 fide Robson–)1.5–2 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, navicular; remaining ± closed so flower is ellipsoid, eventually becoming red and 2–3 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, at length ± spreading. Petals bright yellow, obovate, 26 mm long, 15 mm wide. Anthers 1.5–2 mm long, 1/4–1/2 as long as filaments, dehiscing by apical pores. Carpels 5; styles free towards apex, the ends spreading, with small stigmas. Drupelets ovoid-cylindric, 10 mm long, 6 mm wide.
Range
DISTR. T 6, 8
Altitude range
150–600 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Kilosa District along R. Ruaha, 10 Jan. 1956, Benedicto 101!;TANZANIA Kilwa District ± 19 km SSW of Kingupira, 28 Nov. 1976, Vollesen MRC 4170!;TANZANIA Masasi District near Makotschera, Feb. 1901, Busse 1298!
Distribution (external)
Mozambique
Malawi
Zimbabwe
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 rovumensis Gilg [family OCHNACEAE], in E.J. 33: 246 (1903); T.T.C.L.: 384 (1949); Robson in F.Z. 2: 238, t. 44 fig. B (1963); Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 25 (1980). Type: Tanzania, Masasi District: Rovuma R., near Makotschera, Busse 1298 (B†, holo., EA!, iso.)
Information
Shrub or tree 1.5–15 m tall with smooth grey bark with lighter patches; branches ± spreading or ascending, whitish or pale brown, glabrous, slightly peeling or puberulous in some specimens from Flora Zambesiaca area. Leaves thin, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 3–7 cm long, 1.3–3.5 cm wide, rounded to acute at the apex and sometimes shortly mucronate-aristate at tip, cuneate to rounded at the base, subentire or finely serrulate at margin, main and subsidiary lateral veins and intervening tertiary reticulate venation ± prominent on both surfaces; petiole 2–4 mm long. Flowers solitary on very short axillary shoots near tops of branches; pedicels 1–1.8 cm long, glabrous or rarely puberulous (not in East Africa), jointed at base. Sepals broadly elliptic, rounded, (0.9 fide Robson–)1.5–2 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, navicular; remaining ± closed so flower is ellipsoid, eventually becoming red and 2–3 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, at length ± spreading. Petals bright yellow, obovate, 26 mm long, 15 mm wide. Anthers 1.5–2 mm long, 1/4–1/2 as long as filaments, dehiscing by apical pores. Carpels 5; styles free towards apex, the ends spreading, with small stigmas. Drupelets ovoid-cylindric, 10 mm long, 6 mm wide.
Range
DISTR. T 6, 8
Altitude range
150–600 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Kilosa District along R. Ruaha, 10 Jan. 1956, Benedicto 101!;TANZANIA Kilwa District ± 19 km SSW of Kingupira, 28 Nov. 1976, Vollesen MRC 4170!;TANZANIA Masasi District near Makotschera, Feb. 1901, Busse 1298!
Distribution (external)
Mozambique
Malawi
Zimbabwe
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