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Zanha Hiern [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
Zanha Hiern [family SAPINDACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 128 (1896). Dialiopsis Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], [in Busse,Ber. Forschungsr. Deutsch-Ostafr.: 21 (1902) nom. nud.] in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr.Ill: 207 (1907).
Information
Medium-sized trees. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets 3–7-jugate. Inflorescence a short to very short paniculate thyrse usually borne on a short shoot. Flowers dioecious, actinomorphic. Sepals 4–5(6). Petals 0. Disk small. Stamens (3) 4–7, coiled in bud; staminodes of female flowers anantherous. Ovary 2-locular, loculi 2-ovulate; style short; stigma 2-lobed; pistillode absent in male flowers. Fruit 1-locular (by abortion), ± drupaceous. Seed 1, pendulous from the apex of the loculus; testa provided with stomata; arillode absent.
Range
A genus of two species in tropical Africa.

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
Zanha Hiern [family SAPINDACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 128 (1896). Dialiopsis Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], [in Busse,Ber. Forschungsr. Deutsch-Ostafr.: 21 (1902) nom. nud.] in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr.Ill: 207 (1907).
Information
Medium-sized trees. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets 3–7-jugate. Inflorescence a short to very short paniculate thyrse usually borne on a short shoot. Flowers dioecious, actinomorphic. Sepals 4–5(6). Petals 0. Disk small. Stamens (3) 4–7, coiled in bud; staminodes of female flowers anantherous. Ovary 2-locular, loculi 2-ovulate; style short; stigma 2-lobed; pistillode absent in male flowers. Fruit 1-locular (by abortion), ± drupaceous. Seed 1, pendulous from the apex of the loculus; testa provided with stomata; arillode absent.
Range
A genus of two species in tropical Africa.

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
Zanha Hiern [family SAPINDACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 128 (1896). Dialiopsis Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], [in Busse,Ber. Forschungsr. Deutsch-Ostafr.: 21 (1902) nom. nud.] in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr.Ill: 207 (1907).
Information
Medium-sized trees. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets 3–7-jugate. Inflorescence a short to very short paniculate thyrse usually borne on a short shoot. Flowers dioecious, actinomorphic. Sepals 4–5(6). Petals 0. Disk small. Stamens (3) 4–7, coiled in bud; staminodes of female flowers anantherous. Ovary 2-locular, loculi 2-ovulate; style short; stigma 2-lobed; pistillode absent in male flowers. Fruit 1-locular (by abortion), ± drupaceous. Seed 1, pendulous from the apex of the loculus; testa provided with stomata; arillode absent.
Range
A genus of two species in tropical Africa.
Zanha Hiern [family SAPINDACEAE]
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