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Allophylus chirindensis Bak. f. [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 chirindensis Bak. f. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 48 (1911); in Journ. of Bot. 57: 188 (1919). Type: S. Rhodesia, Chirinda Forest, Swynnerton 112 (BM, holotype).
Information
Small to medium-sized tree up to 15 m. tall; bark silver-grey; branchlets greyish-white with prominent lenticels, glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 3–11 cm. long, glabrous; leaflets subequal or the terminal one up to 1 1/2 times as long as the lateral ones; petiolules up to 12 mm. long in the terminal leaflet, usually much shorter in the lateral ones; lamina of terminal leaflet up to 17 × 9 cm., elliptic, membranous to thinly papyraceous, sometimes minutely pubescent on the nerves and with occasional tufts of hairs in the axils of the lateral nerves on the under surface, otherwise glabrous, apex acute to rounded and sometimes slightly acuminate, margin crenate or crenate-serrate or serrate, base cuneate to narrowly cuneate; lateral nerves 10–13 pairs. Inflorescence up to 27 cm. long, branched, sparsely pubescent to glabrous. Flowers white or yellow in few- to several-flowered sub-sessile glomerules; pedicels up to 4 mm. long, glabrous. Outer sepals 1·8 × 1·8 mm., subcircular, glabrous, inner 1·8 × 1 mm., elliptic, concave, glabrous. Petals 1·5 × 1 mm., spathulate. Stamens with filaments 2 mm. long; staminodes 0·6 mm. long in the 9 flowers. Ovary 2-lobed, minutely pubescent; style 1·5 mm. long, 2-fid. Fruit red, 7 mm. in diam., subglobose, minutely pubescent when young, glabrescent, 1 coccus usually developing.
Habitat
evergreen forest.
Range
Known only from the Eastern Distr. of S. Rhodesia.
Altitude range
Medium-altitude
1500
500
inferred from medium
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Mt. Belinda Forest, fl. 4.i.1948, McGregor 1/48 (BM; FHO; SRGH).
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 chirindensis Bak. f. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 48 (1911); in Journ. of Bot. 57: 188 (1919). Type: S. Rhodesia, Chirinda Forest, Swynnerton 112 (BM, holotype).
Information
Small to medium-sized tree up to 15 m. tall; bark silver-grey; branchlets greyish-white with prominent lenticels, glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 3–11 cm. long, glabrous; leaflets subequal or the terminal one up to 1 1/2 times as long as the lateral ones; petiolules up to 12 mm. long in the terminal leaflet, usually much shorter in the lateral ones; lamina of terminal leaflet up to 17 × 9 cm., elliptic, membranous to thinly papyraceous, sometimes minutely pubescent on the nerves and with occasional tufts of hairs in the axils of the lateral nerves on the under surface, otherwise glabrous, apex acute to rounded and sometimes slightly acuminate, margin crenate or crenate-serrate or serrate, base cuneate to narrowly cuneate; lateral nerves 10–13 pairs. Inflorescence up to 27 cm. long, branched, sparsely pubescent to glabrous. Flowers white or yellow in few- to several-flowered sub-sessile glomerules; pedicels up to 4 mm. long, glabrous. Outer sepals 1·8 × 1·8 mm., subcircular, glabrous, inner 1·8 × 1 mm., elliptic, concave, glabrous. Petals 1·5 × 1 mm., spathulate. Stamens with filaments 2 mm. long; staminodes 0·6 mm. long in the 9 flowers. Ovary 2-lobed, minutely pubescent; style 1·5 mm. long, 2-fid. Fruit red, 7 mm. in diam., subglobose, minutely pubescent when young, glabrescent, 1 coccus usually developing.
Habitat
evergreen forest.
Range
Known only from the Eastern Distr. of S. Rhodesia.
Altitude range
Medium-altitude
1500
500
inferred from medium
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Mt. Belinda Forest, fl. 4.i.1948, McGregor 1/48 (BM; FHO; SRGH).
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 chirindensis Bak. f. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 48 (1911); in Journ. of Bot. 57: 188 (1919). Type: S. Rhodesia, Chirinda Forest, Swynnerton 112 (BM, holotype).
Information
Small to medium-sized tree up to 15 m. tall; bark silver-grey; branchlets greyish-white with prominent lenticels, glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 3–11 cm. long, glabrous; leaflets subequal or the terminal one up to 1 1/2 times as long as the lateral ones; petiolules up to 12 mm. long in the terminal leaflet, usually much shorter in the lateral ones; lamina of terminal leaflet up to 17 × 9 cm., elliptic, membranous to thinly papyraceous, sometimes minutely pubescent on the nerves and with occasional tufts of hairs in the axils of the lateral nerves on the under surface, otherwise glabrous, apex acute to rounded and sometimes slightly acuminate, margin crenate or crenate-serrate or serrate, base cuneate to narrowly cuneate; lateral nerves 10–13 pairs. Inflorescence up to 27 cm. long, branched, sparsely pubescent to glabrous. Flowers white or yellow in few- to several-flowered sub-sessile glomerules; pedicels up to 4 mm. long, glabrous. Outer sepals 1·8 × 1·8 mm., subcircular, glabrous, inner 1·8 × 1 mm., elliptic, concave, glabrous. Petals 1·5 × 1 mm., spathulate. Stamens with filaments 2 mm. long; staminodes 0·6 mm. long in the 9 flowers. Ovary 2-lobed, minutely pubescent; style 1·5 mm. long, 2-fid. Fruit red, 7 mm. in diam., subglobose, minutely pubescent when young, glabrescent, 1 coccus usually developing.
Habitat
evergreen forest.
Range
Known only from the Eastern Distr. of S. Rhodesia.
Altitude range
Medium-altitude
1500
500
inferred from medium
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Mt. Belinda Forest, fl. 4.i.1948, McGregor 1/48 (BM; FHO; SRGH).
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