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Leptaulus zenkeri Engl. [family ICACINACEAE]
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 340, (1963) Author: E. J. Mendes
Names
Leptaulus zenkeri Engl. [family ICACINACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 43: 179 (1909). — Sleumer in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20b: 358 (1942). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 341 (1951). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 637 (1958). — Boutique, F.C.B. 9: 262, fig. 4B (1960). — White, F.F.N.R.: 221 (1962) (“Leptaulis”). TAB. 71. Syntypes from the Cameroons.
Information
Evergreen shrub or small tree, up to 6 m. high; bark pale grey-brown; twigs sparsely puberulous or glabrous. Leaves petiolate; lamina 3–12 × 1·2–5 cm., elliptic to narrowly elliptic, apex abruptly caudate-acuminate with a linear obtuse or slightly spathulate acumen 1/3–1/6 the length of the lamina, broadly cuneate at base. Flowers white, drying chrome-yellow, (1) 3–5 in axillary shortly pedunculate cymes. Calyx-lobes narrowly triangular, 1·5–2 mm. long. Petals united into a tube c. 5 mm. long; lobes triangular, c. 1·5 mm. long. Ovary 1–1·5 mm. long; style as long as the corolla tube, pubescent-hirsute throughout, persisting after anthesis. Drupe c. 1·5 × 0·6 cm., oblong-ellipsoid. Seed c. 1 × 0·4 cm., oblong-ellipsoid.
Habitat
in forest-relics (muteshi), in understorey of dry evergreen forest and in evergreen riverine forest.
Range
from Nigeria to the Congo and Angola (Cabinda)
Distribution
Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., near Kalene Hill Mission, island in ZambeziZambia N Abercorn, Chinakila, young fr. 29.iii.1960, Fanshawe 5584 (K);
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 340, (1963) Author: E. J. Mendes
Names
Leptaulus zenkeri Engl. [family ICACINACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 43: 179 (1909). — Sleumer in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20b: 358 (1942). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 341 (1951). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 637 (1958). — Boutique, F.C.B. 9: 262, fig. 4B (1960). — White, F.F.N.R.: 221 (1962) (“Leptaulis”). TAB. 71. Syntypes from the Cameroons.
Information
Evergreen shrub or small tree, up to 6 m. high; bark pale grey-brown; twigs sparsely puberulous or glabrous. Leaves petiolate; lamina 3–12 × 1·2–5 cm., elliptic to narrowly elliptic, apex abruptly caudate-acuminate with a linear obtuse or slightly spathulate acumen 1/3–1/6 the length of the lamina, broadly cuneate at base. Flowers white, drying chrome-yellow, (1) 3–5 in axillary shortly pedunculate cymes. Calyx-lobes narrowly triangular, 1·5–2 mm. long. Petals united into a tube c. 5 mm. long; lobes triangular, c. 1·5 mm. long. Ovary 1–1·5 mm. long; style as long as the corolla tube, pubescent-hirsute throughout, persisting after anthesis. Drupe c. 1·5 × 0·6 cm., oblong-ellipsoid. Seed c. 1 × 0·4 cm., oblong-ellipsoid.
Habitat
in forest-relics (muteshi), in understorey of dry evergreen forest and in evergreen riverine forest.
Range
from Nigeria to the Congo and Angola (Cabinda)
Distribution
Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., near Kalene Hill Mission, island in ZambeziZambia N Abercorn, Chinakila, young fr. 29.iii.1960, Fanshawe 5584 (K);
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 340, (1963) Author: E. J. Mendes
Names
Leptaulus zenkeri Engl. [family ICACINACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 43: 179 (1909). — Sleumer in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20b: 358 (1942). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 341 (1951). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 637 (1958). — Boutique, F.C.B. 9: 262, fig. 4B (1960). — White, F.F.N.R.: 221 (1962) (“Leptaulis”). TAB. 71. Syntypes from the Cameroons.
Information
Evergreen shrub or small tree, up to 6 m. high; bark pale grey-brown; twigs sparsely puberulous or glabrous. Leaves petiolate; lamina 3–12 × 1·2–5 cm., elliptic to narrowly elliptic, apex abruptly caudate-acuminate with a linear obtuse or slightly spathulate acumen 1/3–1/6 the length of the lamina, broadly cuneate at base. Flowers white, drying chrome-yellow, (1) 3–5 in axillary shortly pedunculate cymes. Calyx-lobes narrowly triangular, 1·5–2 mm. long. Petals united into a tube c. 5 mm. long; lobes triangular, c. 1·5 mm. long. Ovary 1–1·5 mm. long; style as long as the corolla tube, pubescent-hirsute throughout, persisting after anthesis. Drupe c. 1·5 × 0·6 cm., oblong-ellipsoid. Seed c. 1 × 0·4 cm., oblong-ellipsoid.
Habitat
in forest-relics (muteshi), in understorey of dry evergreen forest and in evergreen riverine forest.
Range
from Nigeria to the Congo and Angola (Cabinda)
Distribution
Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., near Kalene Hill Mission, island in ZambeziZambia N Abercorn, Chinakila, young fr. 29.iii.1960, Fanshawe 5584 (K);
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