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Pancovia golungensis Hiern Exell & Mendonça [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
Pancovia golungensis Hiern Exell & Mendonça [family SAPINDACEAE], C.F.A., 2, 1: 85 (1954). TAB. 109. Type from Angola.
Aphania golungensis Hiern [family SAPINDACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 169 (1896). Type as above.
Pancovia turbinata [family SAPINDACEAE], sensu Radlk. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 4: 804 (1932) pro parte quoad syn. Aphania golungensis et specim. angol.
Pancovia sp. [family SAPINDACEAE], — White, F.F.N.R.: 225 (1962).
Information
Slender tree c. 15 m. tall or shrub; branchlets fulvous-tomentellous at first, soon glabrescent. Leaves c. 5 cm. long; petiole up to 3 cm. long, glabrescent; leaflets 2–5-jugate; petiolules c. 3·5 mm. long; rhachis slightly ridged, glabrescent; leaflet-lamina up to 14 × 3·5 cm., narrowly oblong-elliptic, chartaceous, glabrous, with sparse bulbous glands on the reticulation of the under surface, apex rather gradually acuminate, margin entire, base narrowly to broadly cuneate; lateral nerves 10–13 pairs. Inflorescence 3–10 cm. long, usually a racemoid thyrse. Flowers dioecious, subsessile. Sepals 4–5, c. 4 mm. long, connate to halfway or further. Petals 4, 3 mm. long; lamina 1·5 × 1·5 mm., broadly triangular; claw 1·5 mm. long. Stamens 7–9; filaments 5 mm. long; staminodes shorter in female flowers. Ovary 3-lobed. Fruit 1–3-coccous; cocci 9–12 × 5–8 mm., ellipsoid, fulvous-tomentellous, ± glabrescent. Seed 10–11 × 5–7 mm., flattened-ellipsoid, glabrous.
Habitat
Montane forest and also at lower altitudes.
Distribution
Mozambique MS Umswirizwi Flats, 300 m., fl. 1906, Swynnerton 178 (BM; K).Malawi N Rumpi Distr., Mafingi Mts., fl. 21.xi.1952, White 3729 (FHO; K).
Distribution (external)
Angola
S. Africa
probably in Tanganyika
Notes
This species is still very insufficiently known from our area. It appears to differ from P. turbinata Radlk. (in Sitz.-Ber. Bayer. Akad. 8: 270 (1878)) by the larger sub-sessile flowers. It may be synonymous with P. holtzii Gilg ex Radlk. (in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 4: 802 (1932)) and if so this would extend the distribution to Tanganyika. The Angolan specimens usually have longer acumens to the leaflets (drip-tips) than the specimens from our area but Zululand material shows a tendency for the tips to become more elongated again.
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
Pancovia golungensis Hiern Exell & Mendonça [family SAPINDACEAE], C.F.A., 2, 1: 85 (1954). TAB. 109. Type from Angola.
Aphania golungensis Hiern [family SAPINDACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 169 (1896). Type as above.
Pancovia turbinata [family SAPINDACEAE], sensu Radlk. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 4: 804 (1932) pro parte quoad syn. Aphania golungensis et specim. angol.
Pancovia sp. [family SAPINDACEAE], — White, F.F.N.R.: 225 (1962).
Information
Slender tree c. 15 m. tall or shrub; branchlets fulvous-tomentellous at first, soon glabrescent. Leaves c. 5 cm. long; petiole up to 3 cm. long, glabrescent; leaflets 2–5-jugate; petiolules c. 3·5 mm. long; rhachis slightly ridged, glabrescent; leaflet-lamina up to 14 × 3·5 cm., narrowly oblong-elliptic, chartaceous, glabrous, with sparse bulbous glands on the reticulation of the under surface, apex rather gradually acuminate, margin entire, base narrowly to broadly cuneate; lateral nerves 10–13 pairs. Inflorescence 3–10 cm. long, usually a racemoid thyrse. Flowers dioecious, subsessile. Sepals 4–5, c. 4 mm. long, connate to halfway or further. Petals 4, 3 mm. long; lamina 1·5 × 1·5 mm., broadly triangular; claw 1·5 mm. long. Stamens 7–9; filaments 5 mm. long; staminodes shorter in female flowers. Ovary 3-lobed. Fruit 1–3-coccous; cocci 9–12 × 5–8 mm., ellipsoid, fulvous-tomentellous, ± glabrescent. Seed 10–11 × 5–7 mm., flattened-ellipsoid, glabrous.
Habitat
Montane forest and also at lower altitudes.
Distribution
Mozambique MS Umswirizwi Flats, 300 m., fl. 1906, Swynnerton 178 (BM; K).Malawi N Rumpi Distr., Mafingi Mts., fl. 21.xi.1952, White 3729 (FHO; K).
Distribution (external)
Angola
S. Africa
probably in Tanganyika
Notes
This species is still very insufficiently known from our area. It appears to differ from P. turbinata Radlk. (in Sitz.-Ber. Bayer. Akad. 8: 270 (1878)) by the larger sub-sessile flowers. It may be synonymous with P. holtzii Gilg ex Radlk. (in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 4: 802 (1932)) and if so this would extend the distribution to Tanganyika. The Angolan specimens usually have longer acumens to the leaflets (drip-tips) than the specimens from our area but Zululand material shows a tendency for the tips to become more elongated again.
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
Pancovia golungensis Hiern Exell & Mendonça [family SAPINDACEAE], C.F.A., 2, 1: 85 (1954). TAB. 109. Type from Angola.
Aphania golungensis Hiern [family SAPINDACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 169 (1896). Type as above.
Pancovia turbinata [family SAPINDACEAE], sensu Radlk. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 4: 804 (1932) pro parte quoad syn. Aphania golungensis et specim. angol.
Pancovia sp. [family SAPINDACEAE], — White, F.F.N.R.: 225 (1962).
Information
Slender tree c. 15 m. tall or shrub; branchlets fulvous-tomentellous at first, soon glabrescent. Leaves c. 5 cm. long; petiole up to 3 cm. long, glabrescent; leaflets 2–5-jugate; petiolules c. 3·5 mm. long; rhachis slightly ridged, glabrescent; leaflet-lamina up to 14 × 3·5 cm., narrowly oblong-elliptic, chartaceous, glabrous, with sparse bulbous glands on the reticulation of the under surface, apex rather gradually acuminate, margin entire, base narrowly to broadly cuneate; lateral nerves 10–13 pairs. Inflorescence 3–10 cm. long, usually a racemoid thyrse. Flowers dioecious, subsessile. Sepals 4–5, c. 4 mm. long, connate to halfway or further. Petals 4, 3 mm. long; lamina 1·5 × 1·5 mm., broadly triangular; claw 1·5 mm. long. Stamens 7–9; filaments 5 mm. long; staminodes shorter in female flowers. Ovary 3-lobed. Fruit 1–3-coccous; cocci 9–12 × 5–8 mm., ellipsoid, fulvous-tomentellous, ± glabrescent. Seed 10–11 × 5–7 mm., flattened-ellipsoid, glabrous.
Habitat
Montane forest and also at lower altitudes.
Distribution
Mozambique MS Umswirizwi Flats, 300 m., fl. 1906, Swynnerton 178 (BM; K).Malawi N Rumpi Distr., Mafingi Mts., fl. 21.xi.1952, White 3729 (FHO; K).
Distribution (external)
Angola
S. Africa
probably in Tanganyika
Notes
This species is still very insufficiently known from our area. It appears to differ from P. turbinata Radlk. (in Sitz.-Ber. Bayer. Akad. 8: 270 (1878)) by the larger sub-sessile flowers. It may be synonymous with P. holtzii Gilg ex Radlk. (in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 4: 802 (1932)) and if so this would extend the distribution to Tanganyika. The Angolan specimens usually have longer acumens to the leaflets (drip-tips) than the specimens from our area but Zululand material shows a tendency for the tips to become more elongated again.
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