- Family: Dichapetalaceae Baill.
- Genus: Dichapetalum Thouars
Dichapetalum barbosae Torre
- Genus: Dichapetalum Thouars
This species is accepted, and its native range is SE. Tanzania to Mozambique.
[FTEA]
Dichapetalaceae, F.J. Breteler (Agricultural University, Wageningen). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1988
- Habit
- Liana, lianescent shrub or shrub.
- Branches
- Branches glabrous or nearly so, usually with rather small dispersed lenticels; branchlets shortly appressed pubescent, often densely so when young, glabrescent, usually lenticellate when older.
- Stipules
- Stipules usually early caducous, narrowly triangular-subulate, (1–)2–3 mm. long, shortly appressed pubescent.
- Leaves
- Petiole (2–)4–7(–11) mm. long, shortly appressed pubescent, glabrescent; blade coriaceous, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or ovate, rounded to obtuse or truncate-cordate and subequal at base, gradually tapering into an obtuse or truncate or sometimes acute tip, (5–)8–15(–18) × (2–)3–6(–9) cm., glabrous or on one or both surfaces sparsely shortly appressed pubescent on midrib and on the (6–)7–9(–12) pairs of main lateral nerves, soon glabrescent, when young sometimes sparsely pubescent on the entire upper surface, margins usually not or only slightly revolute.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescences 3–5 times branched, tomentose; peduncle 2–5 mm. long; bracts and bracteoles minute, triangular, ± 0.5–1.5 mm. long; pedicel 1–2.5 mm. long, the upper part 0–0.5 mm. long.
- Calyx
- Sepals erect or slightly spreading, occasionally some sepals reflexed, oblong, (3–)3.5–4.5(–5) × 1–2 mm., obtuse, rounded or acutish, both sides tomentose, more densely so outside.
- Corolla
- Petals narrowly obovate-oblong in outline, (4–)4.5–5.5(–6) mm. long, split 1–1.5 mm., inside loosely long-pilose below split, outside more appressed pilose below split.
- Stamens
- Stamens as long as or slightly shorter than the petals, erect; filaments hairy like the petals but usually less densely so to subglabrous.
- Pistil
- Pistil 4.5–5.5(–6.5) mm. long, lanate; ovary 3-locular.
- Fruits
- Fruits obovoid-ellipsoid or subglobose, usually lobed when more than 1-seeded, slightly laterally compressed, 13–20 mm. long, 9–14(–20) mm. in diameter, 1–2(–3)-seeded, densely tomentellous, in dried fruits slightly wrinkled and often obscurely muricate; endocarp inside with up to ± 3 mm. long, golden-brown, acicular minutely barbed hairs.
- Seeds
- Seeds ellipsoid, ± 6–12 mm. long, 4–8 mm. in diameter.
- Habitat
- Riverine forest and secondary woodland; 250–500 m.
- Distribution
- T8
[FZ]
Dichapetalaceae, A. R. Torre. Flora Zambesiaca 2:1. 1963
- Habit
- Scandent shrub; branches and branchlets terete, pubescent; bark longitudinally striate, covered with small and numerous lenticels.
- Leaves
- Leaves 5–12 × 2–5 cm., oblong-elliptic or oblong, papyraceous, glabrous on both surfaces, subacute or obtuse at the apex, subrounded or obtuse at the base; lateral nerves 5–6 pairs, slightly conspicuous above, prominent below; petiole c. 5 mm. long, pubescent or glabrescent; stipules c. 2 mm. long, subulate, caducous.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence cymose, short, axillary; peduncle 1–3 mm. long, free; pedicels c. 1 mm. long, articulated at the base of calyx; bracts small, caducous.
- Calyx
- Sepals c. 3 mm. long, oblong, tomentose.
- Corolla
- Petals c. 4 mm. long, lanceolate, pubescent, glabrous at the apex, 2-lobed.
- Stamens
- Stamens c. 4 mm. long.
- Pistil
- Ovary tomentose; style c. 3·5 mm. long, pubescent, shortly 3-lobed.
- Fruits
- Fruit c. 1·5 × 1 cm., subellipsoid, densely and shortly whitish-tomentose.
[FZ]
Dichapetalaceae, A. R. Torre. Flora Zambesiaca 2:1. 1963
- Habit
- An erect or scandent shrub; young branches sparsely pubescent, later glabrous; bark longitudinally striate, lenticellate.
- Leaves
- Leaf-lamina 7–15 × 3·5–6 cm., glabrous on both surfaces, chartaceous, oblong-elliptic, obtuse to acute at the apex, rounded at the base; lateral nerves 7–9 pairs, slightly conspicuous above, prominent below; petiole 5–10 mm. long and c. 2 mm. diam., sparsely pubescent, later glabrescent; stipules c. 2 mm. long, subulate, caducous.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a many-flowered axillary cyme, shortly pedunculate; peduncle 3–6 mm. long; pedicels c. 1 mm. long, articulated at the base of the calyx.
- Calyx
- Sepals c. 4 mm. long, oblong, tomentose.
- Corolla
- Petals c. 4 mm. long, with pubescent claw, glabrous at the apex, 2-lobed.
- Stamens
- Stamens c. 4 mm. long.
- Pistil
- Ovary tomentose; style c. 4·5 mm. long, pubescent, apex glabrous, shortly 3-lobed.
- Fruits
- Fruit c. 2 cm. long, subglobose, densely and shortly whitish-tomentellous.
Native to:
Mozambique, Tanzania
Dichapetalum barbosae Torre appears in other Kew resources:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 1972 | Andrada [1359], Mozambique | K000432251 | paratype | |
| Jan 1, 1972 | Barbosa [2280], Mozambique | K000432252 | paratype | |
| Jan 1, 1972 | Barbosa [s.n.], Mozambique | K000432253 | paratype | |
| Jan 1, 1972 | Barbosa [2085], Mozambique | K000432254 | isotype | |
| Lock [88/78], Tanzania | 53247.000 |
First published in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 36: 68 (1962)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.
- Exell, A.W., Fernandes, A. & Wild, H. (eds.) (1963). Flora Zambesiaca 2(1): 1-351. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Breteler in Med. Landbouwh. 73–13: 78, fig. 17 (1973).
- Torre in Flora Zambesiaca 2: 323 (1963).
- Torre in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 36: 68, t. 2 (1962)
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