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Rhaphiostylis beninensis Hook. f. ex Hook. Planch. ex Benth. [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
Rhaphiostylis beninensis Hook. f. ex Hook. Planch. ex Benth. [family ICACINACEAE], in Hook., Niger Fl.: 259, t. 28 “Apodytes beninensis” (1849). — R.E.Fr., Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 130 (1914). — Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 2: 256 (1921), “Raphiostyles”. — Sleumer in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20b: 368 (1942). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 343 (1951). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 638 (1958). — Boutique, F.C.B., 9: 275 (1960). — White, F.F.N.R.: 221 (1962). TAB. 73. Type from Liberia.
Apodytes beninensis Hook. f. ex Hook. [family ICACINACEAE], Ic. Pl. 8: t. 778 (1848). — Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 355 (1868). Type as above.
Ptychopetalum cuspidatum R.E.Fr. [family ICACINACEAE], Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 23, fig. 3 (1914). Type: N. Rhodesia, Mano R., near Lake Bangweulu, Fries 762 (UPS, holotype).
Information
A glabrous straggling evergreen shrub or woody liane; bark smooth, dark grey; young branches dark purple. Leaf-lamina 7–15 × 2·5–5·5 cm., glossy dark green, pale below, drying blackish, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, apex abruptly or gradually acuminate with obtuse acumen up to 2 cm. long, cuneate or slightly rounded at the base; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; petiole c. 0·4 cm. long, wrinkled. Flowers c. 6 mm. long in bud, sweet-scented, in 4 — many-flowered, supra-axillary fascicles; pedicels glabrous, ± equalling the flowers. Petals white. Fruit markedly reticulate-wrinkled, oblique on the stipe, broad-ovoid, red at maturity, drying glossy black.
Habitat
In semi-deciduous and evergreen thickets, especially on sandy loam.
Range
from Senegambia to the Congo and Angola
Distribution
Zambia W Kitwe, fl. 2.vii.1955, Fanshawe 2358 (EA; K; LISC); Kitwe, forest nursery, 12 mth. seedlings 29.viii.1959, Fanshawe 5160 (K).Mozambique N Cabo Delgado, Macondes, between Mueda and Chomba, fl. 25.ix.1948, Pedro & Pedrógão 5355 (EA; LMJ).Zimbabwe E Chirinda, st. x.1947, Chase 498 (K; SRGH).Zambia N Luwingu Distr., Chiluvi I., L. Bangweulu, fl. & fr. 13.x.1947, Brenan 8095 (BM; BR; EA; 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
Rhaphiostylis beninensis Hook. f. ex Hook. Planch. ex Benth. [family ICACINACEAE], in Hook., Niger Fl.: 259, t. 28 “Apodytes beninensis” (1849). — R.E.Fr., Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 130 (1914). — Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 2: 256 (1921), “Raphiostyles”. — Sleumer in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20b: 368 (1942). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 343 (1951). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 638 (1958). — Boutique, F.C.B., 9: 275 (1960). — White, F.F.N.R.: 221 (1962). TAB. 73. Type from Liberia.
Apodytes beninensis Hook. f. ex Hook. [family ICACINACEAE], Ic. Pl. 8: t. 778 (1848). — Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 355 (1868). Type as above.
Ptychopetalum cuspidatum R.E.Fr. [family ICACINACEAE], Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 23, fig. 3 (1914). Type: N. Rhodesia, Mano R., near Lake Bangweulu, Fries 762 (UPS, holotype).
Information
A glabrous straggling evergreen shrub or woody liane; bark smooth, dark grey; young branches dark purple. Leaf-lamina 7–15 × 2·5–5·5 cm., glossy dark green, pale below, drying blackish, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, apex abruptly or gradually acuminate with obtuse acumen up to 2 cm. long, cuneate or slightly rounded at the base; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; petiole c. 0·4 cm. long, wrinkled. Flowers c. 6 mm. long in bud, sweet-scented, in 4 — many-flowered, supra-axillary fascicles; pedicels glabrous, ± equalling the flowers. Petals white. Fruit markedly reticulate-wrinkled, oblique on the stipe, broad-ovoid, red at maturity, drying glossy black.
Habitat
In semi-deciduous and evergreen thickets, especially on sandy loam.
Range
from Senegambia to the Congo and Angola
Distribution
Zambia W Kitwe, fl. 2.vii.1955, Fanshawe 2358 (EA; K; LISC); Kitwe, forest nursery, 12 mth. seedlings 29.viii.1959, Fanshawe 5160 (K).Mozambique N Cabo Delgado, Macondes, between Mueda and Chomba, fl. 25.ix.1948, Pedro & Pedrógão 5355 (EA; LMJ).Zimbabwe E Chirinda, st. x.1947, Chase 498 (K; SRGH).Zambia N Luwingu Distr., Chiluvi I., L. Bangweulu, fl. & fr. 13.x.1947, Brenan 8095 (BM; BR; EA; 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
Rhaphiostylis beninensis Hook. f. ex Hook. Planch. ex Benth. [family ICACINACEAE], in Hook., Niger Fl.: 259, t. 28 “Apodytes beninensis” (1849). — R.E.Fr., Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 130 (1914). — Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 2: 256 (1921), “Raphiostyles”. — Sleumer in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20b: 368 (1942). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 343 (1951). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 638 (1958). — Boutique, F.C.B., 9: 275 (1960). — White, F.F.N.R.: 221 (1962). TAB. 73. Type from Liberia.
Apodytes beninensis Hook. f. ex Hook. [family ICACINACEAE], Ic. Pl. 8: t. 778 (1848). — Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 355 (1868). Type as above.
Ptychopetalum cuspidatum R.E.Fr. [family ICACINACEAE], Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 23, fig. 3 (1914). Type: N. Rhodesia, Mano R., near Lake Bangweulu, Fries 762 (UPS, holotype).
Information
A glabrous straggling evergreen shrub or woody liane; bark smooth, dark grey; young branches dark purple. Leaf-lamina 7–15 × 2·5–5·5 cm., glossy dark green, pale below, drying blackish, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, apex abruptly or gradually acuminate with obtuse acumen up to 2 cm. long, cuneate or slightly rounded at the base; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; petiole c. 0·4 cm. long, wrinkled. Flowers c. 6 mm. long in bud, sweet-scented, in 4 — many-flowered, supra-axillary fascicles; pedicels glabrous, ± equalling the flowers. Petals white. Fruit markedly reticulate-wrinkled, oblique on the stipe, broad-ovoid, red at maturity, drying glossy black.
Habitat
In semi-deciduous and evergreen thickets, especially on sandy loam.
Range
from Senegambia to the Congo and Angola
Distribution
Zambia W Kitwe, fl. 2.vii.1955, Fanshawe 2358 (EA; K; LISC); Kitwe, forest nursery, 12 mth. seedlings 29.viii.1959, Fanshawe 5160 (K).Mozambique N Cabo Delgado, Macondes, between Mueda and Chomba, fl. 25.ix.1948, Pedro & Pedrógão 5355 (EA; LMJ).Zimbabwe E Chirinda, st. x.1947, Chase 498 (K; SRGH).Zambia N Luwingu Distr., Chiluvi I., L. Bangweulu, fl. & fr. 13.x.1947, Brenan 8095 (BM; BR; EA; K).
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