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Brackenridgea sp. [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
Brackenridgea sp. [family OCHNACEAE]
Information
Evergreen shrub to 3 m tall; stems with ridged dark grey bark, lenticellate. Leaves elliptic, 5–9.5 cm long, 1.5–3.5 cm wide, ± acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous, closely glandular-serrate; petiole 4–8 mm long, rather thick and channelled. Flowers green in small axillary clusters with close bract scars at base; pedicels ± 5 mm long. Calyx lobes oblong-elliptic, 5–5.5 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, rounded. Petals not seen. Stamens 10; anthers 2.2 mm long, filaments 1.3 mm long. Fruits not seen.
Range
DISTR. T 6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
± 9 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Rufiji District Mafia I., Chunguruma, 1 Oct. 1937, Greenway 5355!
Notes
I am not satisfied that this is merely an evergreen form of B. zanguebarica. The gathering of Greenway is all I have seen from the island and the habitat is now unlikely to be extant.
Brackenridgea sp. [family OCHNACEAE]
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