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Anthocleista schweinfurthii 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 schweinfurthii Gilg [family LOGANIACEAE], in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 17: 579 (1893). — Baker in F.T.A. 4, 1: 541 (1903). — Bruce, Kew Bull. 10: 51 (1955). — Bruce & Lewis in F.T.E.A., Loganiaceae 11. (1960). — Leeuwenberg in Acta Bot. Neerl. 10, 1–53: 24, fig. 12, map 8 (1961). TAB. 76. Lectotype from Zaire.
Anthocleista nobilis Baker [family LOGANIACEAE], 1 c. p. 539, quoad spec. Schweinfurth 3037 et 3726, non G. Don.
Information
Tree 3–30 (usually 4–10) m. high. Twigs without or occasionally, especially in young plants, with short paired partially united spines, often with small broadly conical cushions. Leaves usually petiolate but often sessile in young plants or on low–level branches; lamina dark green and usually (?) glossy above, paler beneath, when dry medium to dark brown above, paler beneath, papyraceous to coriaceous, narrowly to very narrowly ovate, in young plants usually narrower, 1·75–3·5 times as long as wide, 7·45 x 3·5–18 cm., in young plants up to 100 x 30 cm. or more (?), cuneate at the base; costa more or less acute beneath; tertiary veins inconspicuous; margin not curved, but often revolute. Sepals green, rounded, when dry usually smooth, especially the outer ones, in flower uually appressed to the base of the corolla, in fruit often spreading, the outer ones orbicular or slightly broader than long, 8–13 x 9–13 mm., the inner ones usually slightly larger, becoming retuse by the development of the corolla– Corolla in the mature bud 5·5–7 times as long as the calyx, 55–61 mm. long, tapering at the apex as in the young bud, white or creamy, tube darker than the lobes, often greenish–white; tube about 3–4 times as long as the calyx, about 1–1·5 times as long as the lobes; lobes 10–11, very narrowly elliptic, reflexed. Berry globose or ellipsoid rounded or apiculate at the apex, never shrivelled when dry; thick–walled.
Habitat
In secondary or gallery forests, in thickets, or sometimes in savannas or rain forests, usually not in moist places
Range
Central Africa, from Nigeria to the Sudan in the north and Angola and Tanzania in the south
Altitude range
0–1800 m.
1800
0
Distribution
Zambia W Ndola District, Fanshawe 1684 (BR, K).Zambia N near Samfya, Lake Bangweulu, Mansa [Fort Roseberry] District, Angus 276 (BR; K, with fr. in spirit coll.), 291 (BM; BR; K, with fr. in spirit coll.).
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 schweinfurthii Gilg [family LOGANIACEAE], in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 17: 579 (1893). — Baker in F.T.A. 4, 1: 541 (1903). — Bruce, Kew Bull. 10: 51 (1955). — Bruce & Lewis in F.T.E.A., Loganiaceae 11. (1960). — Leeuwenberg in Acta Bot. Neerl. 10, 1–53: 24, fig. 12, map 8 (1961). TAB. 76. Lectotype from Zaire.
Anthocleista nobilis Baker [family LOGANIACEAE], 1 c. p. 539, quoad spec. Schweinfurth 3037 et 3726, non G. Don.
Information
Tree 3–30 (usually 4–10) m. high. Twigs without or occasionally, especially in young plants, with short paired partially united spines, often with small broadly conical cushions. Leaves usually petiolate but often sessile in young plants or on low–level branches; lamina dark green and usually (?) glossy above, paler beneath, when dry medium to dark brown above, paler beneath, papyraceous to coriaceous, narrowly to very narrowly ovate, in young plants usually narrower, 1·75–3·5 times as long as wide, 7·45 x 3·5–18 cm., in young plants up to 100 x 30 cm. or more (?), cuneate at the base; costa more or less acute beneath; tertiary veins inconspicuous; margin not curved, but often revolute. Sepals green, rounded, when dry usually smooth, especially the outer ones, in flower uually appressed to the base of the corolla, in fruit often spreading, the outer ones orbicular or slightly broader than long, 8–13 x 9–13 mm., the inner ones usually slightly larger, becoming retuse by the development of the corolla– Corolla in the mature bud 5·5–7 times as long as the calyx, 55–61 mm. long, tapering at the apex as in the young bud, white or creamy, tube darker than the lobes, often greenish–white; tube about 3–4 times as long as the calyx, about 1–1·5 times as long as the lobes; lobes 10–11, very narrowly elliptic, reflexed. Berry globose or ellipsoid rounded or apiculate at the apex, never shrivelled when dry; thick–walled.
Habitat
In secondary or gallery forests, in thickets, or sometimes in savannas or rain forests, usually not in moist places
Range
Central Africa, from Nigeria to the Sudan in the north and Angola and Tanzania in the south
Altitude range
0–1800 m.
1800
0
Distribution
Zambia W Ndola District, Fanshawe 1684 (BR, K).Zambia N near Samfya, Lake Bangweulu, Mansa [Fort Roseberry] District, Angus 276 (BR; K, with fr. in spirit coll.), 291 (BM; BR; K, with fr. in spirit coll.).
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