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Gomphia reticulata Beauv. [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
Gomphia reticulata Beauv. [family OCHNACEAE], Fl. Oware 2: 22, t. 72 (1810); Oliver in F.T.A.: 320 (1868). Type: Nigeria, Oware, Palisot de Beauvois (G, holo.)
Ouratea reticulata (Beauv.) Gilg [family OCHNACEAE], in E & P., Pf. ed. 1, 3 (6): 142 (1893); Engl. in E.J. 17: 79 (1893); Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 25 (1980)
Ouratea warneckei Engl. [family OCHNACEAE], V.E. 3 (2): 490 (1921) in clav.; Gilg in E & P. Pf. ed. 2, 21: 74 (1925); T.T.C.L.: 386 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District: Amani, Warnecke 468 (B†, holo., EA!, iso.)
Campylospermum reticulatum (P. Beauv.) Farron [family OCHNACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 35: 400 (1965) & in F.C.B., Ochnaceae: 51 (1967)
Information
Shrub or small tree 1–12 m tall with fissured bark and rose-coloured wood. Leaves mostly thin and papery but sometimes thicker; lamina narrowly elliptic to elliptic, oblong-elliptic or slightly oblanceolate, (4.2–)7–15(–23.5) cm long, (1.7–)2–5(–6) cm wide, ± acuminate to usually very narrow acute apex, narrowly cuneate at the base, finely and regularly serrate or subentire to quite entire, sometimes crinkled; venation with (6–)8–17 pairs of secondary veins and very numerous close transverse tertiary veins at right angles to the midrib but almost no reticulate tertiaries, prominent on both sides; petioles 2–6 mm long; stipules triangular, 1–6 mm long, acute, usually deciduous or persistent on young growth. Raceme-like inflorescences 2–3, usually with very slender rhachis, grouped in terminal panicles, 5–20(–30) cm long, the cymules 1–7-flowered (1–2 in East Africa) usually with a persistent bract at the base; pedicels 5–12(–20) mm long, jointed at 1–6 mm from the base; bracts linear-triangular, 1–3 mm long, finely pointed, mostly soon deciduous. Sepals ovate, 4–9 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, slightly accrescent and red in fruit. Petals orange-yellow, broadly obovate, 5–12 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, slightly emarginate at the apex, cuneate at the base. Anthers 3–10 mm long. Drupelets black, ellipsoid, 6–9 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Seeds with embryo heterocotylous, the small cotyledon external, incumbent.
Range
DISTR. U 2; K 7; T 3, 6, 7
Altitude range
300–1500 m
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Longo Mwangandi, 16 Apr. 1968, Magogo & Glover 898! & 18 Mar. 1991, Luke & Robertson 2736! & Mwele Forest, 10 Oct. 2001, Robertson 7392!TANZANIA Lushoto District East Usambara Mts, Kwamkoro Forest Reserve, 18 Nov. 1986, Ruffo & Mmari 1997!;TANZANIA Morogoro District Nguru Mts, Manyangu Forest Reserve, 18 Sept. 1960, Paulo 796!;TANZANIA Ulanga District Sanje loggers camp, Rodgers 386!UGANDA Kigezi District Ishasha Gorge, 27 Feb. 1998, Hafashimana 479!
Distribution (external)
W Africa
Congo (Kinshasa)
Bioko
Notes
In his B.J.B.B. paper (1965) Farron indicates from his synonymy that C. reticulatum is widely distributed in West to East Africa but in the F.C.B. account no distribution or synonymy outside the Congo is mentioned. Whether this is an accidental omission or due to some subsequent doubt over synonymy is not known. I am content to accept Farron’s synonymy given in 1965. Iversen 87/213 is described as a ‘scandent tree’. The single Uganda specimen seen has inflorescences only 7–8 mm long with two side branches, more graceful than in coastal material, but can be matched by much material from Congo (Kinshasa) and Cameroon.
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
Gomphia reticulata Beauv. [family OCHNACEAE], Fl. Oware 2: 22, t. 72 (1810); Oliver in F.T.A.: 320 (1868). Type: Nigeria, Oware, Palisot de Beauvois (G, holo.)
Ouratea reticulata (Beauv.) Gilg [family OCHNACEAE], in E & P., Pf. ed. 1, 3 (6): 142 (1893); Engl. in E.J. 17: 79 (1893); Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 25 (1980)
Ouratea warneckei Engl. [family OCHNACEAE], V.E. 3 (2): 490 (1921) in clav.; Gilg in E & P. Pf. ed. 2, 21: 74 (1925); T.T.C.L.: 386 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District: Amani, Warnecke 468 (B†, holo., EA!, iso.)
Campylospermum reticulatum (P. Beauv.) Farron [family OCHNACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 35: 400 (1965) & in F.C.B., Ochnaceae: 51 (1967)
Information
Shrub or small tree 1–12 m tall with fissured bark and rose-coloured wood. Leaves mostly thin and papery but sometimes thicker; lamina narrowly elliptic to elliptic, oblong-elliptic or slightly oblanceolate, (4.2–)7–15(–23.5) cm long, (1.7–)2–5(–6) cm wide, ± acuminate to usually very narrow acute apex, narrowly cuneate at the base, finely and regularly serrate or subentire to quite entire, sometimes crinkled; venation with (6–)8–17 pairs of secondary veins and very numerous close transverse tertiary veins at right angles to the midrib but almost no reticulate tertiaries, prominent on both sides; petioles 2–6 mm long; stipules triangular, 1–6 mm long, acute, usually deciduous or persistent on young growth. Raceme-like inflorescences 2–3, usually with very slender rhachis, grouped in terminal panicles, 5–20(–30) cm long, the cymules 1–7-flowered (1–2 in East Africa) usually with a persistent bract at the base; pedicels 5–12(–20) mm long, jointed at 1–6 mm from the base; bracts linear-triangular, 1–3 mm long, finely pointed, mostly soon deciduous. Sepals ovate, 4–9 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, slightly accrescent and red in fruit. Petals orange-yellow, broadly obovate, 5–12 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, slightly emarginate at the apex, cuneate at the base. Anthers 3–10 mm long. Drupelets black, ellipsoid, 6–9 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Seeds with embryo heterocotylous, the small cotyledon external, incumbent.
Range
DISTR. U 2; K 7; T 3, 6, 7
Altitude range
300–1500 m
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Longo Mwangandi, 16 Apr. 1968, Magogo & Glover 898! & 18 Mar. 1991, Luke & Robertson 2736! & Mwele Forest, 10 Oct. 2001, Robertson 7392!TANZANIA Lushoto District East Usambara Mts, Kwamkoro Forest Reserve, 18 Nov. 1986, Ruffo & Mmari 1997!;TANZANIA Morogoro District Nguru Mts, Manyangu Forest Reserve, 18 Sept. 1960, Paulo 796!;TANZANIA Ulanga District Sanje loggers camp, Rodgers 386!UGANDA Kigezi District Ishasha Gorge, 27 Feb. 1998, Hafashimana 479!
Distribution (external)
W Africa
Congo (Kinshasa)
Bioko
Notes
In his B.J.B.B. paper (1965) Farron indicates from his synonymy that C. reticulatum is widely distributed in West to East Africa but in the F.C.B. account no distribution or synonymy outside the Congo is mentioned. Whether this is an accidental omission or due to some subsequent doubt over synonymy is not known. I am content to accept Farron’s synonymy given in 1965. Iversen 87/213 is described as a ‘scandent tree’. The single Uganda specimen seen has inflorescences only 7–8 mm long with two side branches, more graceful than in coastal material, but can be matched by much material from Congo (Kinshasa) and Cameroon.
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
Gomphia reticulata Beauv. [family OCHNACEAE], Fl. Oware 2: 22, t. 72 (1810); Oliver in F.T.A.: 320 (1868). Type: Nigeria, Oware, Palisot de Beauvois (G, holo.)
Ouratea reticulata (Beauv.) Gilg [family OCHNACEAE], in E & P., Pf. ed. 1, 3 (6): 142 (1893); Engl. in E.J. 17: 79 (1893); Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 25 (1980)
Ouratea warneckei Engl. [family OCHNACEAE], V.E. 3 (2): 490 (1921) in clav.; Gilg in E & P. Pf. ed. 2, 21: 74 (1925); T.T.C.L.: 386 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District: Amani, Warnecke 468 (B†, holo., EA!, iso.)
Campylospermum reticulatum (P. Beauv.) Farron [family OCHNACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 35: 400 (1965) & in F.C.B., Ochnaceae: 51 (1967)
Information
Shrub or small tree 1–12 m tall with fissured bark and rose-coloured wood. Leaves mostly thin and papery but sometimes thicker; lamina narrowly elliptic to elliptic, oblong-elliptic or slightly oblanceolate, (4.2–)7–15(–23.5) cm long, (1.7–)2–5(–6) cm wide, ± acuminate to usually very narrow acute apex, narrowly cuneate at the base, finely and regularly serrate or subentire to quite entire, sometimes crinkled; venation with (6–)8–17 pairs of secondary veins and very numerous close transverse tertiary veins at right angles to the midrib but almost no reticulate tertiaries, prominent on both sides; petioles 2–6 mm long; stipules triangular, 1–6 mm long, acute, usually deciduous or persistent on young growth. Raceme-like inflorescences 2–3, usually with very slender rhachis, grouped in terminal panicles, 5–20(–30) cm long, the cymules 1–7-flowered (1–2 in East Africa) usually with a persistent bract at the base; pedicels 5–12(–20) mm long, jointed at 1–6 mm from the base; bracts linear-triangular, 1–3 mm long, finely pointed, mostly soon deciduous. Sepals ovate, 4–9 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, slightly accrescent and red in fruit. Petals orange-yellow, broadly obovate, 5–12 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, slightly emarginate at the apex, cuneate at the base. Anthers 3–10 mm long. Drupelets black, ellipsoid, 6–9 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Seeds with embryo heterocotylous, the small cotyledon external, incumbent.
Range
DISTR. U 2; K 7; T 3, 6, 7
Altitude range
300–1500 m
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Longo Mwangandi, 16 Apr. 1968, Magogo & Glover 898! & 18 Mar. 1991, Luke & Robertson 2736! & Mwele Forest, 10 Oct. 2001, Robertson 7392!TANZANIA Lushoto District East Usambara Mts, Kwamkoro Forest Reserve, 18 Nov. 1986, Ruffo & Mmari 1997!;TANZANIA Morogoro District Nguru Mts, Manyangu Forest Reserve, 18 Sept. 1960, Paulo 796!;TANZANIA Ulanga District Sanje loggers camp, Rodgers 386!UGANDA Kigezi District Ishasha Gorge, 27 Feb. 1998, Hafashimana 479!
Distribution (external)
W Africa
Congo (Kinshasa)
Bioko
Notes
In his B.J.B.B. paper (1965) Farron indicates from his synonymy that C. reticulatum is widely distributed in West to East Africa but in the F.C.B. account no distribution or synonymy outside the Congo is mentioned. Whether this is an accidental omission or due to some subsequent doubt over synonymy is not known. I am content to accept Farron’s synonymy given in 1965. Iversen 87/213 is described as a ‘scandent tree’. The single Uganda specimen seen has inflorescences only 7–8 mm long with two side branches, more graceful than in coastal material, but can be matched by much material from Congo (Kinshasa) and Cameroon.
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