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Combretum umbricola Engl. [family COMBRETACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 100, (1978) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Combretum umbricola Engl. [family COMBRETACEAE], [in Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1894: 17 (1894) nom. nud.] Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 288 (1895) (“umbricolum”).—Engl. & Diels in Engl., Mon. Afr. Pflanz. 3: 23, t. 5 fig. D (1899).—Exell & Garcia in Contr. Conhec. Fl. Moçamb. 2: 105 (1954).—Liben, F.C.B. Combret.: 56 (1968).—Exell in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 42: 5 (1968); in Kirkia, 7, 2: 173, t. 1 fig. 4 (1970).—Wickens, F.T.E.A., Combret.: 20, fig. 1(6), 3(6), 4(6) (1973).—Faria in Mem. Inst. Invest. Agron. Moçamb. 4: 20 (1973). TAB. 30 fig. C; TAB. 32 fig. 4. Type from Tanzania (Usambara).
Information
Small tree or shrub, sometimes scandent; branchlets densely pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, often silvery-lepidote when young. Leaves opposite; lamina 3·5–16 x 2–6·5 cm., chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, minutely verrucose and usually shiny and glabrous above, minutely silvery-lepidote otherwise glabrous beneath, apex usually acuminate, base cuneate or obtuse to rounded; lateral nerves 6–10 pairs, usually slightly impressed above; petiole up to 9(13) mm. long, glabrescent. Inflorescence up to 20 cm. long, a terminal or axillary panicle of spikes; rhachis densely fuscous-pubescent when young, ± glabrescent; bracts 1–2 mm. long, linear, caducous. Flowers sessile, white, scented. Lower receptacle c. 1 mm. long, glabrous or pubescent; upper receptacle 1·2–1·5 x 1·2–1·5 mm., often petaloid, usually not conspicuously lepidote. Sepals very shallowly triangular or little developed. Petals 0· x 1·5 mm., subreniform, glabrous. Stamen-filaments 3–4 mm. long; anthers 0·5 mm. long; style 4 mm. long, glabrous. Fruit up to 2·8 x 2·3 cm., broadly elliptic in outline, minutely lepidote otherwise usually glabrous, wings 7 mm. broad, chartaceous, apical peg 1–2 mm. long, stipe up to 5 mm. long. Scales as for the section, frequent in the areoles of the lower surface of the leaf.
Habitat
Riverine forest
Altitude range
at lower altitudes.
Distribution
Mozambique Z Mopeia, between Naquexa and Cundine, fl. 22.ii.1905, Le Testu 700 (BM).Mozambique N Malema, fr. 20.vi.1948, Pedro & Pedrógão 4341 (EA; LMJ).
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Uganda
Tanzania
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 100, (1978) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Combretum umbricola Engl. [family COMBRETACEAE], [in Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1894: 17 (1894) nom. nud.] Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 288 (1895) (“umbricolum”).—Engl. & Diels in Engl., Mon. Afr. Pflanz. 3: 23, t. 5 fig. D (1899).—Exell & Garcia in Contr. Conhec. Fl. Moçamb. 2: 105 (1954).—Liben, F.C.B. Combret.: 56 (1968).—Exell in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 42: 5 (1968); in Kirkia, 7, 2: 173, t. 1 fig. 4 (1970).—Wickens, F.T.E.A., Combret.: 20, fig. 1(6), 3(6), 4(6) (1973).—Faria in Mem. Inst. Invest. Agron. Moçamb. 4: 20 (1973). TAB. 30 fig. C; TAB. 32 fig. 4. Type from Tanzania (Usambara).
Information
Small tree or shrub, sometimes scandent; branchlets densely pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, often silvery-lepidote when young. Leaves opposite; lamina 3·5–16 x 2–6·5 cm., chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, minutely verrucose and usually shiny and glabrous above, minutely silvery-lepidote otherwise glabrous beneath, apex usually acuminate, base cuneate or obtuse to rounded; lateral nerves 6–10 pairs, usually slightly impressed above; petiole up to 9(13) mm. long, glabrescent. Inflorescence up to 20 cm. long, a terminal or axillary panicle of spikes; rhachis densely fuscous-pubescent when young, ± glabrescent; bracts 1–2 mm. long, linear, caducous. Flowers sessile, white, scented. Lower receptacle c. 1 mm. long, glabrous or pubescent; upper receptacle 1·2–1·5 x 1·2–1·5 mm., often petaloid, usually not conspicuously lepidote. Sepals very shallowly triangular or little developed. Petals 0· x 1·5 mm., subreniform, glabrous. Stamen-filaments 3–4 mm. long; anthers 0·5 mm. long; style 4 mm. long, glabrous. Fruit up to 2·8 x 2·3 cm., broadly elliptic in outline, minutely lepidote otherwise usually glabrous, wings 7 mm. broad, chartaceous, apical peg 1–2 mm. long, stipe up to 5 mm. long. Scales as for the section, frequent in the areoles of the lower surface of the leaf.
Habitat
Riverine forest
Altitude range
at lower altitudes.
Distribution
Mozambique Z Mopeia, between Naquexa and Cundine, fl. 22.ii.1905, Le Testu 700 (BM).Mozambique N Malema, fr. 20.vi.1948, Pedro & Pedrógão 4341 (EA; LMJ).
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Uganda
Tanzania
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 100, (1978) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Combretum umbricola Engl. [family COMBRETACEAE], [in Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1894: 17 (1894) nom. nud.] Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 288 (1895) (“umbricolum”).—Engl. & Diels in Engl., Mon. Afr. Pflanz. 3: 23, t. 5 fig. D (1899).—Exell & Garcia in Contr. Conhec. Fl. Moçamb. 2: 105 (1954).—Liben, F.C.B. Combret.: 56 (1968).—Exell in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 42: 5 (1968); in Kirkia, 7, 2: 173, t. 1 fig. 4 (1970).—Wickens, F.T.E.A., Combret.: 20, fig. 1(6), 3(6), 4(6) (1973).—Faria in Mem. Inst. Invest. Agron. Moçamb. 4: 20 (1973). TAB. 30 fig. C; TAB. 32 fig. 4. Type from Tanzania (Usambara).
Information
Small tree or shrub, sometimes scandent; branchlets densely pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, often silvery-lepidote when young. Leaves opposite; lamina 3·5–16 x 2–6·5 cm., chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, minutely verrucose and usually shiny and glabrous above, minutely silvery-lepidote otherwise glabrous beneath, apex usually acuminate, base cuneate or obtuse to rounded; lateral nerves 6–10 pairs, usually slightly impressed above; petiole up to 9(13) mm. long, glabrescent. Inflorescence up to 20 cm. long, a terminal or axillary panicle of spikes; rhachis densely fuscous-pubescent when young, ± glabrescent; bracts 1–2 mm. long, linear, caducous. Flowers sessile, white, scented. Lower receptacle c. 1 mm. long, glabrous or pubescent; upper receptacle 1·2–1·5 x 1·2–1·5 mm., often petaloid, usually not conspicuously lepidote. Sepals very shallowly triangular or little developed. Petals 0· x 1·5 mm., subreniform, glabrous. Stamen-filaments 3–4 mm. long; anthers 0·5 mm. long; style 4 mm. long, glabrous. Fruit up to 2·8 x 2·3 cm., broadly elliptic in outline, minutely lepidote otherwise usually glabrous, wings 7 mm. broad, chartaceous, apical peg 1–2 mm. long, stipe up to 5 mm. long. Scales as for the section, frequent in the areoles of the lower surface of the leaf.
Habitat
Riverine forest
Altitude range
at lower altitudes.
Distribution
Mozambique Z Mopeia, between Naquexa and Cundine, fl. 22.ii.1905, Le Testu 700 (BM).Mozambique N Malema, fr. 20.vi.1948, Pedro & Pedrógão 4341 (EA; LMJ).
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Uganda
Tanzania
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