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Mimusops zeyheri Sonder [family SAPOTACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 7, Part 1, page 210, (1983) Author: F. K. Kupicha
Names
Mimusops monroi S. Moore [family SAPOTACEAE], in Journ. Bot., Lond. 49:154(1911). — Eyles, tom. cit.: 437 (1916). Type: Zimbabwe, Victoria, 1909, Monro 761 (BM, holotype; SRGH, isotype). Mimusops decorifolia S. Moore [family SAPOTACEAE], loc. cit. — Eyles, loc. cit. Type: Zimbabwe, Victoria, 1909, Monro 811 (BM, holotype). Mimusops sp. [family SAPOTACEAE], — Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 499 (1954). Mimusops zeyheri Sonder [family SAPOTACEAE], in Linnaea 23: 74 (1850). — Engl., Mon. Afr.Pflanzen. 8: 73, t. 27 fig. C (1904). — Steedman, Trees etc. S. Rhod.: 62, t. 58 (1933). — O. B. Miller, B.C.L.: 46 (1948). — A. Meeuse in Fl. Pl. Afr.30:1 .1164 (1954); in Bothalia 7: 361 (1960); in Fl. Southern Afr.26: 47 (1963) pro parte excl. syn. M. kirkii. — Pardy in Rhod. Agric. Journ. 53: 517, with photogr. (1956). — F. White, F.F.N.R.: 321 (1962). — Gomes e Sousa, Dendrol. Moçamb. 2: 624 (1967) pro parte. — J. H. Hemsley in F.T.E.A., Sapotaceae: 56 (1968). — Palmer & Pitman, Trees of–Southern Afr.3: 1751, with fig. (1972) excl. syn. — Fanshawe, Check–list Woody Pl. Zambia: 29 (1973). — R. B. Drumm. in Kirkia 10: 266 (1975). Type from S. Africa (Transvaal). Mimusops zeyheri var. laurifolia Engl. [family SAPOTACEAE], loc. cit. — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr.5: 438 (1916). — Burtt Davy & Hoyle, N.C.L.: 71 (1936). — Topham, N.C.L. ed. 2: 94 (1958). Type: Malawi, 1895, Buchanan 304 (B†, holotype; BM, K, isotypes). Mimusops blantyreana Engl. [family SAPOTACEAE], op. cit.: 83 (1904). — Burtt Davy & Hoyle, op. cit.: 70 (1936). Type: Malawi, Blantyre, Buchanan 7024 (not seen).
Information
Evergreen shrub branching near the ground to tall tree with long clean trunk, 2–23 m. tall; slash white, pink or crimson; bark grey to black, smooth or shallowly grooved or roughly reticulately fissured; buttresses absent; crown (in larger specimens) wide–spreading, rounded. Young stems and leaves often densely ferrugineous appressed–pubescent, glabrescent, older twigs with longitudinally wrinkled grey bark. Leaf–lamina 3·5–11·5 x 1·4–5·5 cm., elliptic, oblong–elliptic, obovate–elliptic or lanceolate; apex tapering or acute or rounded and slightly emarginate, but most often bluntly apiculate; base acute to acuminate; petiole 0·6–3·5 cm. long. Upper leaf surface glossy, usually with prominent midrib and vein reticulation but sometimes the latter obscured beneath the thick leathery cuticle, initially or soon becoming completely glabrous. Lower surface mat, with prominent midrib and fairly conspicuous reticulation, more tardily glabrescent than above, indumentum sometimes becoming grey, sometimes persisting along midrib. Flowers sweetly scented, borne in axillary fascicles of 1–7; pedicels 10–17 mm., but elongating in fruit. Calyx 6·5–9·5 mm. long. Corolla equalling or slightly longer or shorter than calyx, white to pale brownish–yellow; lateral segments narrowly triangular or lanceolate, median segment equalling, longer or shorter than laterals, elliptic with narrow basal attachment; tube 1–2 mm. long. Anthers 2·5–3·5 mm. long. Staminodes half as long as to almost equalling corolla, shorter or longer than stamens. Gynoecium 6·5–9 mm. long. Fruit up to 4·5 cm. long, edible, plum–shaped, 1–seeded, with brittle yellow or orange epicarp and floury astringent orange pulp; fruiting calyx cupped round fruit or spreading. Seed c. 1·8 mm. long.
Habitat
In riverine fringe vegetation, also on termitaria and on rocky hill slopes.
Distribution
Mozambique M Namaacha, by R. Impamputo, fr. 20.vii.1967, Marques 2065 (BM; COI; K; LISC; LMU; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique MS Plateau E. of Haroni R., above its confluence with Lusitu, 450 m.,fi. 14.i.1969, Biegel 2&7 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique T between Marueira and Songo, fr. 7.ii.1972, Macedo 4806 (K; LISC; LMA; LMU; SRGH).Malawi S Ntcheu Distr., confluence of Dombole and Livulezi Rs., fr. l.ix.1971, Saluheni 1708 (MAL; SRGH).Malawi C Dedza Distr., Ciwau, fr. 16.x.1960, Chapman 992 (FHO; K; MAL; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Victoria Distr., Zimbabwe, Acropolis Hill, fr. 19.viii.1965, West 6733 (SRGH).Zimbabwe E Umtali Commonage, Meikle’s Jungle, fr. 27.viii.1948, Chase 869 (BM; COI; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Gwelo Distr., 16 km. E. of Gwelo, 1460 m., fr. 21.xi.1965, Biegel 576 (SRGH).Zimbabwe W Matopos, Farm Besna Kobila, 1430 m., fl. xii.1953, Miller 1985 (PRE; SRGH).Zambia S Mazabuka Distr., Kafue Gorge, c. 1000 m., fl. 4.x1.1972, Strid 2437 (C).Zambia E Nsadzu to Chipata (Fort Jameson) road, 900 m., fl. 25.xi.1958, Robson 704 (BM; K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Zambia C 142 km. N. of Kabwe (Broken Hill), fr. vii.1909, Rogers 8325 (SRGH).Zambia W Ndola Distr., Ndola Golf Course, fl. 23.x.1952, Angus 653 (BM; FHO; K; PRE).Zambia N Mansa (Fort Rosebery), fl. buds 16.viii.1952, White 3068 (BM; COI; FHO; K).Botswana SE Ootse Mt., 40 km. SE. of Gaborone, 1370 m.,fr. 23.vi.1974, Woollard 3 (SRGH).Mozambique N 10 km. from Mutual; to Malema, fl. 21.x.1953, Gomes e Sousa 4150 (COI; K; PRE).Malawi N Rumphi Distr., near Rumphi Bridge on Livingstoniaroad, fl. 20.x.1962, Adiard 507 (FHO; MAL; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Shamva Distr., Mazoe R., Golden Scar, immat. fr. 29.xii.1963, Masterson 296 (SRGH).Zambia B Zambesi Distr., Kalambosa, fr. 14.iv.1949, West 2900 (SRGH).Botswana N Chobe Distr., Serondela, near Chobe R., 915 m., x.1951, Miller B/1191 (FHO).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania Angola S. Africa (Transvaal and Natal)
Mimusops zeyheri Sonder [family SAPOTACEAE]
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