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Allophylus rubifolius Hochst. ex A. Rich. Engl. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 494, (1966) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Allophylus rubifolius Hochst. ex A. Rich. Engl. [family SAPINDACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr.: 292 (1892) pro parte excl. specim. Meyer 158 fide Radlk. — Schinz in Denkschr. Math. Naturw. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 78: 427 (1905). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5, 4: 405 (1916) (“rubrifolius”). — Bak. f. in Journ. of Bot. 57: 159 (1919) — Radlk. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 2: 520 (1932). — Hauman, F.C.B. 9: 305 (1960). — Dale &Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs: 504 (1961). TAB. 100 fig. 5. Syntypes from Ethiopia.
Schmidelia rubifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family SAPINDACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 103 (1847). — Bak. in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 423 (1868). — Sim, For. Fl. Port E. Afr.: 32 (1909). Syntypes as above.
Allophylus tristis Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Sitz.-Ber. Bayer. Akad. 38, 2: 225, 237 (1909); in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 2: 542 (1932). — Bak. f., tom. cit: 188 (1919). Syntypes: Mozambique, Sena, Chiramba and Chupanga, Kirk (K); Quelimane, Stuhlmann 668(B†) ; Puguruni, Stuhlmann 670 (B†).
Information
Shrub (rarely shrublet) up to 5 m. tall or small tree; branchlets usually pale coloured, tomentose or densely pubescent and only tardily glabrescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole up to 5 cm. long, tomentose or densely pubescent; leaflets subequal or more often the terminal one up to twice as long as the lateral ones; petiolules up to 4 mm. long but leaflets usually subsessile; lamina of terminal leaflet 5–9 × 2·5–5 cm., obovate-elliptic or elliptic or rarely narrowly elliptic, usually broadest near the middle, papyraceous to chartaceous, densely pubescent to tomentose on both surfaces, minutely glandular beneath, usually with conspicuous tufts of hairs on the under surface in the axils of the lateral nerves and sometimes also in the axils of the secondary nerves, apex rounded to acute, margin irregularly crenate-serrate or dentate or remotely serrulate, base narrowly cuneate and distinctly narrowed from the middle downwards; lateral nerves 4–8 pairs. Inflorescence 4–10 cm. long, branched or unbranched. Flowers white, greenish-white or yellow, in few-flowered subsessile glomerules; pedicels up to 1·5 mm. long, sparsely pubescent or glabrous. Outer sepals 1·8 × 1·9 mm., subcircular, inner 1 × 1 mm., subcircular, all minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous, with minutely ciliate margins. Petals 1·2–1·8 × 0·8–1 mm., clavate or spathulate. Stamens with filaments 1·6 mm. long., staminodes with filaments 0·6 mm. long in the male flowers. Ovary 2-lobed, densely pubescent; style 2 mm. long, 2-fid. Fruit red or orange, 4–6 mm. in diam., subglobose, sparsely pubescent.
Habitat
Dense or open Brachystegia woodland, bush and thickets.
Range
From Ethiopia and the Congo southwards to S. Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Mozambique and Natal
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimoio, Serra de Chibata, fl. 11.ii.1948, Garcia 165 (LISC).Mozambique Z Quelimane Distr., Lugela-Mocuba, Namagoa, fl. 17.iii.1949, Faulkner 439 (COI; K; SRGH).Mozambique N Nampula, fl. 21.xi.1937, Torre 1230 (LISC).Malawi S Port Herald Distr., near Namyala R., fr. 25.iii.1961, Phipps 2740 (SRGH).Zimbabwe Umtali Commonage, fl. 17.i.1950. Chase 1923 (BM; K; SRGH).Zambia E Petauke-Sasare road, 800 m., fl. 25.i.1959; Robson 831 (K).
Notes
If this species should eventually prove to be conspecific with A. melanocarpus (E. Mey.) Radlk. (said to have black or white fruits and not recorded by Radlkofer outside S. Africa) that name would have priority.Several specimens from N. and S. Rhodesia (Davies 2697 (SRGH); Goodier 22 (LISC; SRGH); Love-more 299 (LISC; SRGH); Phelps 20 (SRGH); Phipps 2279 (K; PRE; SRGH), 2359 (SRGH); Robinson 1782 (SRGH)) seem to be predominantly A rubifolus but apparently transitional to A. africanus (Group B. griseo-tomentosus). There are also many specimens with branched inflorescences which seem nevertheless to belong to A. rubifolius although Radlkofer (loc. cit.) and Hauman (loc. cit.) restrict the species to plants with unbranched inflorescences.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 494, (1966) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Allophylus rubifolius Hochst. ex A. Rich. Engl. [family SAPINDACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr.: 292 (1892) pro parte excl. specim. Meyer 158 fide Radlk. — Schinz in Denkschr. Math. Naturw. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 78: 427 (1905). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5, 4: 405 (1916) (“rubrifolius”). — Bak. f. in Journ. of Bot. 57: 159 (1919) — Radlk. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 2: 520 (1932). — Hauman, F.C.B. 9: 305 (1960). — Dale &Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs: 504 (1961). TAB. 100 fig. 5. Syntypes from Ethiopia.
Schmidelia rubifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family SAPINDACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 103 (1847). — Bak. in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 423 (1868). — Sim, For. Fl. Port E. Afr.: 32 (1909). Syntypes as above.
Allophylus tristis Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Sitz.-Ber. Bayer. Akad. 38, 2: 225, 237 (1909); in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 2: 542 (1932). — Bak. f., tom. cit: 188 (1919). Syntypes: Mozambique, Sena, Chiramba and Chupanga, Kirk (K); Quelimane, Stuhlmann 668(B†) ; Puguruni, Stuhlmann 670 (B†).
Information
Shrub (rarely shrublet) up to 5 m. tall or small tree; branchlets usually pale coloured, tomentose or densely pubescent and only tardily glabrescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole up to 5 cm. long, tomentose or densely pubescent; leaflets subequal or more often the terminal one up to twice as long as the lateral ones; petiolules up to 4 mm. long but leaflets usually subsessile; lamina of terminal leaflet 5–9 × 2·5–5 cm., obovate-elliptic or elliptic or rarely narrowly elliptic, usually broadest near the middle, papyraceous to chartaceous, densely pubescent to tomentose on both surfaces, minutely glandular beneath, usually with conspicuous tufts of hairs on the under surface in the axils of the lateral nerves and sometimes also in the axils of the secondary nerves, apex rounded to acute, margin irregularly crenate-serrate or dentate or remotely serrulate, base narrowly cuneate and distinctly narrowed from the middle downwards; lateral nerves 4–8 pairs. Inflorescence 4–10 cm. long, branched or unbranched. Flowers white, greenish-white or yellow, in few-flowered subsessile glomerules; pedicels up to 1·5 mm. long, sparsely pubescent or glabrous. Outer sepals 1·8 × 1·9 mm., subcircular, inner 1 × 1 mm., subcircular, all minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous, with minutely ciliate margins. Petals 1·2–1·8 × 0·8–1 mm., clavate or spathulate. Stamens with filaments 1·6 mm. long., staminodes with filaments 0·6 mm. long in the male flowers. Ovary 2-lobed, densely pubescent; style 2 mm. long, 2-fid. Fruit red or orange, 4–6 mm. in diam., subglobose, sparsely pubescent.
Habitat
Dense or open Brachystegia woodland, bush and thickets.
Range
From Ethiopia and the Congo southwards to S. Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Mozambique and Natal
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimoio, Serra de Chibata, fl. 11.ii.1948, Garcia 165 (LISC).Mozambique Z Quelimane Distr., Lugela-Mocuba, Namagoa, fl. 17.iii.1949, Faulkner 439 (COI; K; SRGH).Mozambique N Nampula, fl. 21.xi.1937, Torre 1230 (LISC).Malawi S Port Herald Distr., near Namyala R., fr. 25.iii.1961, Phipps 2740 (SRGH).Zimbabwe Umtali Commonage, fl. 17.i.1950. Chase 1923 (BM; K; SRGH).Zambia E Petauke-Sasare road, 800 m., fl. 25.i.1959; Robson 831 (K).
Notes
If this species should eventually prove to be conspecific with A. melanocarpus (E. Mey.) Radlk. (said to have black or white fruits and not recorded by Radlkofer outside S. Africa) that name would have priority.Several specimens from N. and S. Rhodesia (Davies 2697 (SRGH); Goodier 22 (LISC; SRGH); Love-more 299 (LISC; SRGH); Phelps 20 (SRGH); Phipps 2279 (K; PRE; SRGH), 2359 (SRGH); Robinson 1782 (SRGH)) seem to be predominantly A rubifolus but apparently transitional to A. africanus (Group B. griseo-tomentosus). There are also many specimens with branched inflorescences which seem nevertheless to belong to A. rubifolius although Radlkofer (loc. cit.) and Hauman (loc. cit.) restrict the species to plants with unbranched inflorescences.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 494, (1966) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Allophylus rubifolius Hochst. ex A. Rich. Engl. [family SAPINDACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr.: 292 (1892) pro parte excl. specim. Meyer 158 fide Radlk. — Schinz in Denkschr. Math. Naturw. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 78: 427 (1905). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5, 4: 405 (1916) (“rubrifolius”). — Bak. f. in Journ. of Bot. 57: 159 (1919) — Radlk. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 2: 520 (1932). — Hauman, F.C.B. 9: 305 (1960). — Dale &Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs: 504 (1961). TAB. 100 fig. 5. Syntypes from Ethiopia.
Schmidelia rubifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family SAPINDACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 103 (1847). — Bak. in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 423 (1868). — Sim, For. Fl. Port E. Afr.: 32 (1909). Syntypes as above.
Allophylus tristis Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Sitz.-Ber. Bayer. Akad. 38, 2: 225, 237 (1909); in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 2: 542 (1932). — Bak. f., tom. cit: 188 (1919). Syntypes: Mozambique, Sena, Chiramba and Chupanga, Kirk (K); Quelimane, Stuhlmann 668(B†) ; Puguruni, Stuhlmann 670 (B†).
Information
Shrub (rarely shrublet) up to 5 m. tall or small tree; branchlets usually pale coloured, tomentose or densely pubescent and only tardily glabrescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole up to 5 cm. long, tomentose or densely pubescent; leaflets subequal or more often the terminal one up to twice as long as the lateral ones; petiolules up to 4 mm. long but leaflets usually subsessile; lamina of terminal leaflet 5–9 × 2·5–5 cm., obovate-elliptic or elliptic or rarely narrowly elliptic, usually broadest near the middle, papyraceous to chartaceous, densely pubescent to tomentose on both surfaces, minutely glandular beneath, usually with conspicuous tufts of hairs on the under surface in the axils of the lateral nerves and sometimes also in the axils of the secondary nerves, apex rounded to acute, margin irregularly crenate-serrate or dentate or remotely serrulate, base narrowly cuneate and distinctly narrowed from the middle downwards; lateral nerves 4–8 pairs. Inflorescence 4–10 cm. long, branched or unbranched. Flowers white, greenish-white or yellow, in few-flowered subsessile glomerules; pedicels up to 1·5 mm. long, sparsely pubescent or glabrous. Outer sepals 1·8 × 1·9 mm., subcircular, inner 1 × 1 mm., subcircular, all minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous, with minutely ciliate margins. Petals 1·2–1·8 × 0·8–1 mm., clavate or spathulate. Stamens with filaments 1·6 mm. long., staminodes with filaments 0·6 mm. long in the male flowers. Ovary 2-lobed, densely pubescent; style 2 mm. long, 2-fid. Fruit red or orange, 4–6 mm. in diam., subglobose, sparsely pubescent.
Habitat
Dense or open Brachystegia woodland, bush and thickets.
Range
From Ethiopia and the Congo southwards to S. Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Mozambique and Natal
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimoio, Serra de Chibata, fl. 11.ii.1948, Garcia 165 (LISC).Mozambique Z Quelimane Distr., Lugela-Mocuba, Namagoa, fl. 17.iii.1949, Faulkner 439 (COI; K; SRGH).Mozambique N Nampula, fl. 21.xi.1937, Torre 1230 (LISC).Malawi S Port Herald Distr., near Namyala R., fr. 25.iii.1961, Phipps 2740 (SRGH).Zimbabwe Umtali Commonage, fl. 17.i.1950. Chase 1923 (BM; K; SRGH).Zambia E Petauke-Sasare road, 800 m., fl. 25.i.1959; Robson 831 (K).
Notes
If this species should eventually prove to be conspecific with A. melanocarpus (E. Mey.) Radlk. (said to have black or white fruits and not recorded by Radlkofer outside S. Africa) that name would have priority.Several specimens from N. and S. Rhodesia (Davies 2697 (SRGH); Goodier 22 (LISC; SRGH); Love-more 299 (LISC; SRGH); Phelps 20 (SRGH); Phipps 2279 (K; PRE; SRGH), 2359 (SRGH); Robinson 1782 (SRGH)) seem to be predominantly A rubifolus but apparently transitional to A. africanus (Group B. griseo-tomentosus). There are also many specimens with branched inflorescences which seem nevertheless to belong to A. rubifolius although Radlkofer (loc. cit.) and Hauman (loc. cit.) restrict the species to plants with unbranched inflorescences.
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