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Gomphia lutambensis (Sleumer) Verdc. [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 lutambensis (Sleumer) Verdc. [family OCHNACEAE], comb. et stat. nov. Type: Tanzania, Lindi District, Lake Lutamba, Noto Plateau, Schlieben 6110 (B†, holo.)
Ouratea lutambensis Sleumer [family OCHNACEAE], in F.R. 39: 279 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 385 (1949)
Information
Shrub 4–5 m tall (scandent fide Bidgood et al.); bark brown, shining, longitudinally striate, splitting. Leaves shining in life, less so and brownish on drying, oblong, elongate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, 10–30 cm long, 3–8 cm wide, rounded at apex and base, margin crenulate, entire or with few very obscure traces of serration; midrib ± impressed above, very prominent beneath; lateral veins ± 35 with venation very densely reticulate and with some close parallel veinlets, prominent on both sides; petiole thick, 3–5 mm long; stipules triangular, 5 mm long, striate, thickened. Panicles terminal with very abbreviated branches bearing numerous persistent bracteoles, with only terminal flowers well developed; rhachis 6–13 cm long; pedicels 1.2–1.5 cm long. Sepals thin, ovate-oblong, 6–7 mm long, 3 mm wide. Petals yellow, oblong-spathulate, 9–10 mm long, 5 mm wide. Stamens 10; anthers ± 7 mm long, almost sessile. Drupelets black, subglobose, ± 6 mm in diameter (immature).
Range
DISTR. T 8 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
450–750 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Lindi District Noto Plateau, Lake Lutamba, [15 July 1935], Schlieben 6110 & Rondo Forest Reserve, 15 Feb. 1991, Bidgood et al. 1581! & S face of Rondo escarpment, Mchinjiri, Dec. 1951, Eggeling 6416!
Notes
Sleumer says this is related to G. calophylla Hook. f. (Ouratea calophylla (Hook. f.) Engl., Rhabdophyllum calophyllum (Hook. f.) Farron) but this is not so since the latter has much closer lateral veins. I do not think Farron would have referred Sleumer’s species to Rhabdophyllum. Eggeling 6116 is undoubtedly identical with Bidgood et al. 1581 and both had been identified as lutambensis by the collectors. Farron confirmed the Eggeling sheet as lutambensis in 1963. Robson had annotated it ‘not lutambensis which belongs to Calophyllae’. It is not clear if Farron or Robson saw type material.
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 lutambensis (Sleumer) Verdc. [family OCHNACEAE], comb. et stat. nov. Type: Tanzania, Lindi District, Lake Lutamba, Noto Plateau, Schlieben 6110 (B†, holo.)
Ouratea lutambensis Sleumer [family OCHNACEAE], in F.R. 39: 279 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 385 (1949)
Information
Shrub 4–5 m tall (scandent fide Bidgood et al.); bark brown, shining, longitudinally striate, splitting. Leaves shining in life, less so and brownish on drying, oblong, elongate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, 10–30 cm long, 3–8 cm wide, rounded at apex and base, margin crenulate, entire or with few very obscure traces of serration; midrib ± impressed above, very prominent beneath; lateral veins ± 35 with venation very densely reticulate and with some close parallel veinlets, prominent on both sides; petiole thick, 3–5 mm long; stipules triangular, 5 mm long, striate, thickened. Panicles terminal with very abbreviated branches bearing numerous persistent bracteoles, with only terminal flowers well developed; rhachis 6–13 cm long; pedicels 1.2–1.5 cm long. Sepals thin, ovate-oblong, 6–7 mm long, 3 mm wide. Petals yellow, oblong-spathulate, 9–10 mm long, 5 mm wide. Stamens 10; anthers ± 7 mm long, almost sessile. Drupelets black, subglobose, ± 6 mm in diameter (immature).
Range
DISTR. T 8 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
450–750 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Lindi District Noto Plateau, Lake Lutamba, [15 July 1935], Schlieben 6110 & Rondo Forest Reserve, 15 Feb. 1991, Bidgood et al. 1581! & S face of Rondo escarpment, Mchinjiri, Dec. 1951, Eggeling 6416!
Notes
Sleumer says this is related to G. calophylla Hook. f. (Ouratea calophylla (Hook. f.) Engl., Rhabdophyllum calophyllum (Hook. f.) Farron) but this is not so since the latter has much closer lateral veins. I do not think Farron would have referred Sleumer’s species to Rhabdophyllum. Eggeling 6116 is undoubtedly identical with Bidgood et al. 1581 and both had been identified as lutambensis by the collectors. Farron confirmed the Eggeling sheet as lutambensis in 1963. Robson had annotated it ‘not lutambensis which belongs to Calophyllae’. It is not clear if Farron or Robson saw type material.
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 lutambensis (Sleumer) Verdc. [family OCHNACEAE], comb. et stat. nov. Type: Tanzania, Lindi District, Lake Lutamba, Noto Plateau, Schlieben 6110 (B†, holo.)
Ouratea lutambensis Sleumer [family OCHNACEAE], in F.R. 39: 279 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 385 (1949)
Information
Shrub 4–5 m tall (scandent fide Bidgood et al.); bark brown, shining, longitudinally striate, splitting. Leaves shining in life, less so and brownish on drying, oblong, elongate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, 10–30 cm long, 3–8 cm wide, rounded at apex and base, margin crenulate, entire or with few very obscure traces of serration; midrib ± impressed above, very prominent beneath; lateral veins ± 35 with venation very densely reticulate and with some close parallel veinlets, prominent on both sides; petiole thick, 3–5 mm long; stipules triangular, 5 mm long, striate, thickened. Panicles terminal with very abbreviated branches bearing numerous persistent bracteoles, with only terminal flowers well developed; rhachis 6–13 cm long; pedicels 1.2–1.5 cm long. Sepals thin, ovate-oblong, 6–7 mm long, 3 mm wide. Petals yellow, oblong-spathulate, 9–10 mm long, 5 mm wide. Stamens 10; anthers ± 7 mm long, almost sessile. Drupelets black, subglobose, ± 6 mm in diameter (immature).
Range
DISTR. T 8 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
450–750 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Lindi District Noto Plateau, Lake Lutamba, [15 July 1935], Schlieben 6110 & Rondo Forest Reserve, 15 Feb. 1991, Bidgood et al. 1581! & S face of Rondo escarpment, Mchinjiri, Dec. 1951, Eggeling 6416!
Notes
Sleumer says this is related to G. calophylla Hook. f. (Ouratea calophylla (Hook. f.) Engl., Rhabdophyllum calophyllum (Hook. f.) Farron) but this is not so since the latter has much closer lateral veins. I do not think Farron would have referred Sleumer’s species to Rhabdophyllum. Eggeling 6116 is undoubtedly identical with Bidgood et al. 1581 and both had been identified as lutambensis by the collectors. Farron confirmed the Eggeling sheet as lutambensis in 1963. Robson had annotated it ‘not lutambensis which belongs to Calophyllae’. It is not clear if Farron or Robson saw type material.
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