- Family: Araliaceae Juss.
- Genus: Cussonia Thunb.
Cussonia zimmermannii Harms
- Genus: Cussonia Thunb.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Kenya to NE. Mozambique.
[FTEA]
Araliaceae, J. R. Tennant. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1968
- Habit
- A tree to 45 m. tall with greenish-grey fissured bark.
- Leaves
- Leaves digitately compound; petiole up to 53.5 cm. long and 5 mm. diameter, but generally considerably smaller, glabrous apart from some crisped hairs in stipular region and at junction with leaflets; leaflets 5–7(–9), sessile, chartaceous to coriaceous, lanceolate to oblanceolate, narrowly ovate and narrowly obovate, up to 25 cm. long by 8 cm. wide, but generally considerably less, caudate to acute (very rarely emarginate), with a narrowly cuneate to much attenuated base (occasionally base only a winged petiolule of up to 12 mm. long), with crenate to subentire margins, glabrous above, glabrous to slightly puberulous beneath.
- Inflorescences
- Flowering spikes up to about 12 together, up to 34 cm. long; floral bracts lanceolate to broadly ovate, up to 3.5 mm. long by up to 2 mm. wide, frequently much smaller, puberulous, sometimes glabrescent quite early on; base of spike-rhachis often clothed with larger, thicker overlapping sterile bracts.
- Fruits
- Fruits up to 6 mm. long, usually obconical to hemispherical, glabrous or puberulous.
- Figures
- Fig. 3/5, p. 10.
- Habitat
- ? Lowland rain-forest, lowland dry evergreen forest, woodland; 0–400 m.
- Distribution
- K7 T3 T6 T8 Z
[FZ]
Araliaceae, J. F. M. Cannon. Flora Zambesiaca 4. 1978
- Habit
- Tree up to 20(45) m. high.
- Leaves
- Leaves digitately compound; petioles glabrous, commonly up to 20 cm. long but lengths of 53 cm. have been recorded.
- Leaflets
- Leaflets 5–7(9), up to 10(25) × 4(8) cm., sessile, chartaceous, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs, oblanceolate (to lanceolate) or ovate (to obovate); apex long-acuminate; base cuneate to narrowly cuneate (sometimes almost creating the impression of a distinct petiole); margins crenate-serrate to subentire.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a group of up to 12 spike-like racemes, up to 35 cm. long in fruit. Base of racemes densely clothed with overlapping bracts; floral bracts lanceolate (to ovate).
- Flowers
- Flowers distinctly pedicellate, pedicels 3–5 mm.
- Stylopodium
- Stylopodium well developed, broadly conical; styles short, with shortly recurved stigmatic surfaces.
- Fruits
- Fruit hemispherical, up to 6 mm. long, glabrous to very slightly puberulous.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Habit
- Tree to 20–30 m tall
- Leaves
- Adult leaves digitately compound, with petiole up to c. 30(–50) cm long; leaflets 5–7, sessile or subsessile, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, glabrous or glabrescent, 5.5–10(–20) x 2–4(–8) cm, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, with ± crenate margins
- Inflorescences
- Flowers on short pedicels, in up to 25–30 cm long racemes, racemes often 10–12 together; bracts subtending flowers lanceolate-ovate, up to c. 2(–3) mm long
- Fruits
- Fruit subglobose, up to 6 mm long.
- Distribution
- S1 eastern Africa from Kenya southwards to Mozambique.
- Ecology
- Altitude range c. 400–560 m.
- Note
- The only Somali collection seen is from “Bur Heybe” (03° 00’N, 44° 19’E).
Native to:
Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania
Cussonia zimmermannii Harms appears in other Kew resources:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gomes e Sousa [4577], Mozambique | 6986.000 |
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 361 (1915)
Accepted by
- Calane da Silva, M., Izdine, S. & Amuse, A.B. (2004). A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Mozambique: 1-184. SABONET, Pretoria.
- Frodin, D.G. & Govaerts, R. (2003 publ. 2004). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araliaceae: 1-444. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by S. Fici [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 54 (1961).
- J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 59 (1949).
- Harms in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 53: 361 (1915).
Flora Zambesiaca
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