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Anthocleista grandiflora Gilg [family LOGANIACEAE]
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 327, (1983) Author: A. J. M. Leeuwenberg
Names
Anthocleista grandiflora Gilg [family LOGANIACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 17: 582 (1893). — Leeuwenberg in Acta. Bot. Neerl. 10 (1961) 1–53: 28, fig. 13, map 9. Type from the Comores.
Anthocleista zambesiaca Bak. [family LOGANIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1895: 99 (April 1895). — F.T.A. 4(1): 540 (1903). — Prain & Cummins in Fl. Cap. 4, 1: 1049 (1909). — Bruce in Kew Bull. 10: 54 (1955). — Bruce & Lewis in F.T.E.A., Loganiaceae: 10, f. 2 (1960). Type from Malawi: Shire Highlands, Buchanan 84 (K, holotype; isotypes: E, K).
Anthocleista insignis Galpin [family LOGANIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1895: 150 (vi — vii 1895). Type from Swaziland.
Information
Tree, 5–35 m. high, unarmed. Leaves sessile, those of larger trees sometimes petiolate; lamina medium to dark green above, paler beneath, when dry greenish, medium to dark brown, paler beneath, brittle, often thinly papyraceous to coriaceous, narrowly or very narrowly obovate, in young plants usually narrower, 1·75–3·5 (in young plants up to 5) times as long as wide, 15–70 x 7–25 cm., up to 135 x 50 cm. in young plants or low–levelled branches, narrowed to the auricles or long–decurrent into the petiole; veins conspicuous; margin not recurved. Sepals green, rounded, usually spreading when dry, the outer ones circular or broadly ovate, 5–8 x 5–8 mm., when dry rugulose outside and often pointed, the inner ones usually slightly larger. Corolla in the young bud rounded or tapering, in the mature bud 5–10 as long as the calyx, 35–60(70) mm. long, tapering at the apex, white, the limb paler than the tube which is slightly greenish outside; tube 3·8–6·5 x as long as the calyx, 1·25–2·5 x as long as the lobes; lobes 11–13, very narrowly elliptic, spreading or recurved. Berry ellipsoid, when dry irregularly shrivelled, conspicuously rugulose, acuminate.
Habitat
In open often swampy places, in rain forests, or in gallery forests, mostly in mountains
Range
East Africa, from Uganda and Kenya to Transvaal
Altitude range
0–2300 m.
2300
0
Distribution
Mozambique GI Maruma Mt., Swynnerton 27 (BM; K).Mozambique MS Báruè, Choa Mts., Catandica (Vila Gouveia), Mendonça 287 (LISC).Mozambique Z Gúruè, Andrada 1842 (COI; LISC).Malawi S Thyolo Mt., Cholo District, Brass 17854 (BR; K; MO).Zimbabwe S Bikita District, Wild 4379 (K; MO).Mozambique N Macondes Distr. between Mueda and Chomba, Gomes Pedro 5352 (LISU).Malawi C Ntchisi, Ntchisi Distr., Brass 17072 (BM; BR; EA; K; MO).Zimbabwe E Inyanga, near Nyamingura R., Phipps 1250 (BR; EA)
Distribution (external)
Zanzibar
Comores
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 327, (1983) Author: A. J. M. Leeuwenberg
Names
Anthocleista grandiflora Gilg [family LOGANIACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 17: 582 (1893). — Leeuwenberg in Acta. Bot. Neerl. 10 (1961) 1–53: 28, fig. 13, map 9. Type from the Comores.
Anthocleista zambesiaca Bak. [family LOGANIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1895: 99 (April 1895). — F.T.A. 4(1): 540 (1903). — Prain & Cummins in Fl. Cap. 4, 1: 1049 (1909). — Bruce in Kew Bull. 10: 54 (1955). — Bruce & Lewis in F.T.E.A., Loganiaceae: 10, f. 2 (1960). Type from Malawi: Shire Highlands, Buchanan 84 (K, holotype; isotypes: E, K).
Anthocleista insignis Galpin [family LOGANIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1895: 150 (vi — vii 1895). Type from Swaziland.
Information
Tree, 5–35 m. high, unarmed. Leaves sessile, those of larger trees sometimes petiolate; lamina medium to dark green above, paler beneath, when dry greenish, medium to dark brown, paler beneath, brittle, often thinly papyraceous to coriaceous, narrowly or very narrowly obovate, in young plants usually narrower, 1·75–3·5 (in young plants up to 5) times as long as wide, 15–70 x 7–25 cm., up to 135 x 50 cm. in young plants or low–levelled branches, narrowed to the auricles or long–decurrent into the petiole; veins conspicuous; margin not recurved. Sepals green, rounded, usually spreading when dry, the outer ones circular or broadly ovate, 5–8 x 5–8 mm., when dry rugulose outside and often pointed, the inner ones usually slightly larger. Corolla in the young bud rounded or tapering, in the mature bud 5–10 as long as the calyx, 35–60(70) mm. long, tapering at the apex, white, the limb paler than the tube which is slightly greenish outside; tube 3·8–6·5 x as long as the calyx, 1·25–2·5 x as long as the lobes; lobes 11–13, very narrowly elliptic, spreading or recurved. Berry ellipsoid, when dry irregularly shrivelled, conspicuously rugulose, acuminate.
Habitat
In open often swampy places, in rain forests, or in gallery forests, mostly in mountains
Range
East Africa, from Uganda and Kenya to Transvaal
Altitude range
0–2300 m.
2300
0
Distribution
Mozambique GI Maruma Mt., Swynnerton 27 (BM; K).Mozambique MS Báruè, Choa Mts., Catandica (Vila Gouveia), Mendonça 287 (LISC).Mozambique Z Gúruè, Andrada 1842 (COI; LISC).Malawi S Thyolo Mt., Cholo District, Brass 17854 (BR; K; MO).Zimbabwe S Bikita District, Wild 4379 (K; MO).Mozambique N Macondes Distr. between Mueda and Chomba, Gomes Pedro 5352 (LISU).Malawi C Ntchisi, Ntchisi Distr., Brass 17072 (BM; BR; EA; K; MO).Zimbabwe E Inyanga, near Nyamingura R., Phipps 1250 (BR; EA)
Distribution (external)
Zanzibar
Comores
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