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Olax dissitiflora Oliv. [family OLACACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 1, page 328, (1963) Author: J. G. Garcia
Names
Olax dissitiflora Oliv. [family OLACACEAE], F.T.A. 1: 350 (1868). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 345 (1916). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 454 (1932). — Burtt Davy & Hoyle, N.C.L.: 56 (1936). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 387 (1949). — O. B. Mill., B.C.L.: 12 (1949). — Wild, Guide Fl. Vict. Falls: 151 (1953). — White, F.F.N.R.: 41 (1962). TAB. 66. Type: Mozambique, Sena, Kirk (K, lectotype). Olax stuhlmanni Engl. [family OLACACEAE], in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berl. 2: 283 (1899). — Bake. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 43 (1911). Syntypes from Tanganyika (Stuhlmann 8562) and Mozambique: Lourenço Marques, Schlechter 11620, of which the former is the lectotype.
Information
Shrub or small tree up to 6–12 m. tall; crown rounded, low, spreading; twigs pendulous, flexuous; bark smooth, light grey. Leaf-lamina dull deep green, 1·5–6 × 0·5–2·5 cm., elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, obtuse or acuminate and usually mucronulate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, decurrent into the petiole; midrib impressed above, somewhat prominent below; venation inconspicuous, widely reticulate; petiole 3–8 mm. long. Flowers axillary, solitary, or in short axillary racemes, sweet-scented; buds broadly clavate, 5–7 mm. long. Calyx membranous, truncate, with margin somewhat undulate. Petals 5, white, 6–8 x 0·8–1·2 mm., valvate, shortly cucullate at the apex. Fertile stamens 3–4; filaments adnate to the petals; anthers 1·2–1·6 × 0·6–0·8 mm.; staminodes 5; filaments similar to those of the fertile stamens; anthers 1·5–2·5 mm. long, divaricate; ovary c. 1·2 × 1·4 mm.; style up to 4 mm. long, cylindric; stigma capitate, 3–4-lobed. Fruit 7–9 mm. long, ellipsoid or obovoid, drupaceous, red, crowned with the persistent base of the style and enveloped nearly to the apex by the accrescent calyx.
Habitat
Deciduous woodland.
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, Santaca, fl. 27.ix.1948, Gomes e Sousa 3851 (COI; K; LISC; PRE).Mozambique GI Guijá, Massingir, Algés, fl. & fr. 19.xi.1957, Barbosa 8192 (COI; K; LISC; LMJ).Mozambique MS Sena, fl. x.1858, Kirk (K); Manica, Chimanimani, fl. 15.x.1950, Chase 2919 (BM; COI; LISC).Mozambique T between Chicoa and Chioco, fl. 25.ix.1942, Mendonça 427 (BR; COI; K; LISC; LM; SRGH).Mozambique Z Alto Molócuè, between Mugema and R. Ligonha, fl. 14.x.1949, Barbosa & Carvalho in Barbosa 4426 (K; LMJ; SRGH).Malawi S Mlanje, between Nampende and Nandiwo, st. 17.vii.1958, Chapman W/615 (SRGH).Zimbabwe S Gwanda, fl. xi.1956, Davies 2159 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Umtali, fr. 6.xi.1949, Chase 1815 (COI; K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Selukwe, fl. xi.1948, Hodgson 427/48 (SRGH).Zimbabwe W Matopo Hills, fl. x.1905, Gibbs 263 (BM; K).Mozambique N Cabo Delgado, Quissanga, Maate, fl. 11.ix.1948, Barbosa 2036 (EA; LISC; LMJ).Malawi C Salima Bay, fl. 22.ix.1935, Galpin 15020 (K); Dowa, Ngora Hill, fl. 21.x.1954, Adlard 188 (COI; K).Zimbabwe N Mtoko, Musicheri R., Fungwi Reserve, fl. 11.x.1955, Lovemore 444 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zambia S Zambezi bank, Katambora, fr. 5–11.xi.1949, West (SRGH); Lusito, fl. & fr. 25.ix.1959, Fanshawe 5215 (K); Livingstone, fl. 18.xii, Rogers 7462 (BM; K; SRGH); Victoria Falls, fr. 20.xi.1949, Wild 3114 (K; SRGH).Botswana N Ngamiland, st. 19.vi.1937, Erens 256 (SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Tanganyika Transvaal
Olax dissitiflora Oliv. [family OLACACEAE]
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