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Bridelia brideliifolia Pax Fedde [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Neogoetzea brideliifolia Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 419 (1900).
Bridelia neogoetzea Gehrm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 41, Beibl. 95: 40 (1908). —Hutchinson in F.T.A. 6, 1: 619 (1912).
Bridelia brideliifolia Pax Fedde [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Just’s Bot. Jahresber. 36, 2: 413, in adnot. (1910). —Jablonszky in Engler, Pflanzenr. [IV, fam. 147, viii] 65: 83 (1915). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas 3, 2: 45 (1921) —Robyns & Tournay, Fl. Sperm. Parc Nat. Alb. 1: 448 (1948). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 200 (1949). —Eggeling & Dale, Indig. Trees Uganda, ed. 2: 117 (1952). —J. Léonard in F.C.B. 8, 1: 36 (1962). —Troupin, Fl. Pl. Lign. Rwanda: 250, fig. 86/.3 (1982); Fl. Rwanda 2: 210, fig. 63/3 (1983). —Radcliffe-Smith in F.T.E.A., Euphorb. 1: 126 (1987). Type from Tanzania.
Information
A deciduous tree up to 33 m high with a spreading crown, borne on stilt roots or with fluted buttresses up to 3 m high.Trunk spiny.Bark smooth or scaly, pinkish-brown.Branches ± flattened.Twigs dark purplish-brown or blackish. Young shoots, petioles and inflorescence axes evenly to sparingly pubescent or ± glabrous.Petioles 5–12 mm long.Stipules very fugacious; scars 3 mm long.Leaf blades 4–17 × 2–11 cm, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong, shortly acutely to obtusely acuminate at the apex, cuneate-rounded to truncate or shallowly cordate at the base, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous above with the midrib and lateral nerves sparingly pubescent above, more evenly pubescent beneath, dark green above, paler beneath, often drying blackish above and brownish beneath; lateral nerves in 11–20 pairs, cheilodromous, often branched, scarcely prominent above, prominent beneath, tertiary nerves parallel.Flowers in terminal leafless or almost leafless panicles 3–13 cm long.Male flowers: pedicels 1.5 mm long, glabrous; sepals 2.5 × 1 mm, triangular-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, pale greenish; petals 1 × 0.5 mm, spathulate-flabelliform, tridentate, yellowish-green; disk 2 mm in diameter, annular, verruculose, yellow; staminal column 1.5 mm high; anthers 0.8 mm long; pistillode 0.75 mm high, ampulliform, bifid at the apex, the lobes connivent.Female flowers subsessile or very shortly pedicellate; sepals 2 × 1.5 mm, triangular-ovate, otherwise as in male; petals oblanceolate, otherwise as in male; outer disk similar to that of male; inner disk irregularly 3-lobed, lobes c. 1 × 1 mm, ± triangular, irregularly lobulate at apex; ovary 1 × 1 mm, subglobose, 2-celled; styles 2, 1.3 mm long, united at the base, bifid, stigmas ± smooth.Fruit 9–12 × 5–7 mm, ellipsoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 1-locular by abortion, green at first, later becoming purple or purplish-black.Seed 7 × 5 mm, smooth, brown.
Habitat
On edge of dense mixed evergreen relict forest patches
Altitude range
1600–2000 m.
2000
1600
Distribution
Malawi C Ntchisi Mt. For., fr. 11.v.1984, Banda & Kaunda 2165 (K; MAL).Malawi S Goche, Kirk Range, male fls. 30.i.1959, Robson 1366 (BM; K; LISC).Malawi N Viphya Plateau 46.6 km SW of Mzuzu, male and female fls. 9.ii.1976, Pawek 10854 (K; MAL; MO; PRE; SRGH; UC).
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Rwanda
Burundi
Sudan
Uganda
Tanzania
Notes
If Léonard’s subsp. pubescentifolia (leaf lower surface pubescent to tomentellous, as opposed to puberulous or glabrescent with the midrib and main nerves pubescent or glabrescent) is kept up, then all Malawi material seen is referable to the subsp. brideliifolia.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Neogoetzea brideliifolia Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 419 (1900).
Bridelia neogoetzea Gehrm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 41, Beibl. 95: 40 (1908). —Hutchinson in F.T.A. 6, 1: 619 (1912).
Bridelia brideliifolia Pax Fedde [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Just’s Bot. Jahresber. 36, 2: 413, in adnot. (1910). —Jablonszky in Engler, Pflanzenr. [IV, fam. 147, viii] 65: 83 (1915). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas 3, 2: 45 (1921) —Robyns & Tournay, Fl. Sperm. Parc Nat. Alb. 1: 448 (1948). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 200 (1949). —Eggeling & Dale, Indig. Trees Uganda, ed. 2: 117 (1952). —J. Léonard in F.C.B. 8, 1: 36 (1962). —Troupin, Fl. Pl. Lign. Rwanda: 250, fig. 86/.3 (1982); Fl. Rwanda 2: 210, fig. 63/3 (1983). —Radcliffe-Smith in F.T.E.A., Euphorb. 1: 126 (1987). Type from Tanzania.
Information
A deciduous tree up to 33 m high with a spreading crown, borne on stilt roots or with fluted buttresses up to 3 m high.Trunk spiny.Bark smooth or scaly, pinkish-brown.Branches ± flattened.Twigs dark purplish-brown or blackish. Young shoots, petioles and inflorescence axes evenly to sparingly pubescent or ± glabrous.Petioles 5–12 mm long.Stipules very fugacious; scars 3 mm long.Leaf blades 4–17 × 2–11 cm, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong, shortly acutely to obtusely acuminate at the apex, cuneate-rounded to truncate or shallowly cordate at the base, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous above with the midrib and lateral nerves sparingly pubescent above, more evenly pubescent beneath, dark green above, paler beneath, often drying blackish above and brownish beneath; lateral nerves in 11–20 pairs, cheilodromous, often branched, scarcely prominent above, prominent beneath, tertiary nerves parallel.Flowers in terminal leafless or almost leafless panicles 3–13 cm long.Male flowers: pedicels 1.5 mm long, glabrous; sepals 2.5 × 1 mm, triangular-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, pale greenish; petals 1 × 0.5 mm, spathulate-flabelliform, tridentate, yellowish-green; disk 2 mm in diameter, annular, verruculose, yellow; staminal column 1.5 mm high; anthers 0.8 mm long; pistillode 0.75 mm high, ampulliform, bifid at the apex, the lobes connivent.Female flowers subsessile or very shortly pedicellate; sepals 2 × 1.5 mm, triangular-ovate, otherwise as in male; petals oblanceolate, otherwise as in male; outer disk similar to that of male; inner disk irregularly 3-lobed, lobes c. 1 × 1 mm, ± triangular, irregularly lobulate at apex; ovary 1 × 1 mm, subglobose, 2-celled; styles 2, 1.3 mm long, united at the base, bifid, stigmas ± smooth.Fruit 9–12 × 5–7 mm, ellipsoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 1-locular by abortion, green at first, later becoming purple or purplish-black.Seed 7 × 5 mm, smooth, brown.
Habitat
On edge of dense mixed evergreen relict forest patches
Altitude range
1600–2000 m.
2000
1600
Distribution
Malawi C Ntchisi Mt. For., fr. 11.v.1984, Banda & Kaunda 2165 (K; MAL).Malawi S Goche, Kirk Range, male fls. 30.i.1959, Robson 1366 (BM; K; LISC).Malawi N Viphya Plateau 46.6 km SW of Mzuzu, male and female fls. 9.ii.1976, Pawek 10854 (K; MAL; MO; PRE; SRGH; UC).
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Rwanda
Burundi
Sudan
Uganda
Tanzania
Notes
If Léonard’s subsp. pubescentifolia (leaf lower surface pubescent to tomentellous, as opposed to puberulous or glabrescent with the midrib and main nerves pubescent or glabrescent) is kept up, then all Malawi material seen is referable to the subsp. brideliifolia.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Neogoetzea brideliifolia Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 419 (1900).
Bridelia neogoetzea Gehrm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 41, Beibl. 95: 40 (1908). —Hutchinson in F.T.A. 6, 1: 619 (1912).
Bridelia brideliifolia Pax Fedde [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Just’s Bot. Jahresber. 36, 2: 413, in adnot. (1910). —Jablonszky in Engler, Pflanzenr. [IV, fam. 147, viii] 65: 83 (1915). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas 3, 2: 45 (1921) —Robyns & Tournay, Fl. Sperm. Parc Nat. Alb. 1: 448 (1948). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 200 (1949). —Eggeling & Dale, Indig. Trees Uganda, ed. 2: 117 (1952). —J. Léonard in F.C.B. 8, 1: 36 (1962). —Troupin, Fl. Pl. Lign. Rwanda: 250, fig. 86/.3 (1982); Fl. Rwanda 2: 210, fig. 63/3 (1983). —Radcliffe-Smith in F.T.E.A., Euphorb. 1: 126 (1987). Type from Tanzania.
Information
A deciduous tree up to 33 m high with a spreading crown, borne on stilt roots or with fluted buttresses up to 3 m high.Trunk spiny.Bark smooth or scaly, pinkish-brown.Branches ± flattened.Twigs dark purplish-brown or blackish. Young shoots, petioles and inflorescence axes evenly to sparingly pubescent or ± glabrous.Petioles 5–12 mm long.Stipules very fugacious; scars 3 mm long.Leaf blades 4–17 × 2–11 cm, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong, shortly acutely to obtusely acuminate at the apex, cuneate-rounded to truncate or shallowly cordate at the base, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous above with the midrib and lateral nerves sparingly pubescent above, more evenly pubescent beneath, dark green above, paler beneath, often drying blackish above and brownish beneath; lateral nerves in 11–20 pairs, cheilodromous, often branched, scarcely prominent above, prominent beneath, tertiary nerves parallel.Flowers in terminal leafless or almost leafless panicles 3–13 cm long.Male flowers: pedicels 1.5 mm long, glabrous; sepals 2.5 × 1 mm, triangular-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, pale greenish; petals 1 × 0.5 mm, spathulate-flabelliform, tridentate, yellowish-green; disk 2 mm in diameter, annular, verruculose, yellow; staminal column 1.5 mm high; anthers 0.8 mm long; pistillode 0.75 mm high, ampulliform, bifid at the apex, the lobes connivent.Female flowers subsessile or very shortly pedicellate; sepals 2 × 1.5 mm, triangular-ovate, otherwise as in male; petals oblanceolate, otherwise as in male; outer disk similar to that of male; inner disk irregularly 3-lobed, lobes c. 1 × 1 mm, ± triangular, irregularly lobulate at apex; ovary 1 × 1 mm, subglobose, 2-celled; styles 2, 1.3 mm long, united at the base, bifid, stigmas ± smooth.Fruit 9–12 × 5–7 mm, ellipsoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 1-locular by abortion, green at first, later becoming purple or purplish-black.Seed 7 × 5 mm, smooth, brown.
Habitat
On edge of dense mixed evergreen relict forest patches
Altitude range
1600–2000 m.
2000
1600
Distribution
Malawi C Ntchisi Mt. For., fr. 11.v.1984, Banda & Kaunda 2165 (K; MAL).Malawi S Goche, Kirk Range, male fls. 30.i.1959, Robson 1366 (BM; K; LISC).Malawi N Viphya Plateau 46.6 km SW of Mzuzu, male and female fls. 9.ii.1976, Pawek 10854 (K; MAL; MO; PRE; SRGH; UC).
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Rwanda
Burundi
Sudan
Uganda
Tanzania
Notes
If Léonard’s subsp. pubescentifolia (leaf lower surface pubescent to tomentellous, as opposed to puberulous or glabrescent with the midrib and main nerves pubescent or glabrescent) is kept up, then all Malawi material seen is referable to the subsp. brideliifolia.
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