- Family: Araliaceae Juss.
- Genus: Polyscias J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Polyscias fulva (Hiern) Harms
- Genus: Polyscias J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Tropical Africa, SW. Arabian Peninsula.
[FWTA]
Araliaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:2. 1958
- Habit
- A tree, 20–50 ft. high, rarely to 100 ft.
- Leaves
- The large leaves bunched at the top of the rather few branches; leaflets white-tomentose beneath, dark green above
- Flowers
- Flowers cream
- Ecology
- Usually in montane forest.
[FTEA]
Araliaceae, J. R. Tennant. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1968
- Habit
- A tree to 30 m. tall, often with a large grey extremely straight unbranched cylindrical bole of up to 15 m. tall and 1 m. diameter, generally dividing into a small number of main branches which themselves each branch in a similar manner.
- Leaves
- Leaves up to 80 cm. long, generally imparipinnate, less often paripinnate; leaflets (3–)6–7(–12) pairs, chartaceous to coriaceous, lanceolate to ovate (occasionally very broadly ovate), often markedly straight-edged, up to 14(–17) cm. long and up to 5.5(–7.5) cm. wide, acute to acuminate, generally apiculate, rarely retuse, rounded or obtuse, with a subcordate, truncate or rounded, rarely very broadly cuneate, occasionally slightly oblique base, and entire occasionally slightly undulate, generally very narrowly inrolled margins, densely stellate-tomentose when young, irregularly glabrescent to some degree (especially above) later; petiolules of paired leaflets (0–)5(–14) mm. long.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence-branches of three orders (fig. 4/2), racemosely borne, pubescent to tomentose, often irregularly glabrescent, sometimes galled (see p. 1); primaries up to 70 cm. long, 3.0–6.5 mm. diameter; secondaries up to 3–7(–12) cm. long, 0.7–1.7(–2.0) mm. diameter; tertiaries (pedicels) up to 4 mm. (not exceeding 2.5 mm. in Flora area) long, 0.3–0.8(–1.0) mm. diameter.
- Flowers
- Flowers greenish-yellow to cream; style, 2, persistent in fruit.
- Fruits
- Fruits ovoid to obovoid, occasionally ellipsoid, shortly cylindroidal or subspheroidal, 3.5–6.0 mm. long by 3.0–4.5 mm. maximum width, generally ribbed and markedly flattened, glabrous or very sparsely stellate-hairy.
- Figures
- Fig. 4/1–5, p. 13.
- Habitat
- Upland and lowland rain-forest, riverine forest, also upland grassland; 1180–2160 m.
- Distribution
- widely spread from Guinée Republic to Ethiopia, and southwards through the Congo Republic to Malawi, Zambia, Rhodesia and Angola K5 K7 T1 T2 T3 T4 T6 T7 U2 U3 U4
[FZ]
Araliaceae, J. F. M. Cannon. Flora Zambesiaca 4. 1978
- Habit
- A tall tree up to 30 m. high with a long unbranched trunk, eventually dividing into primary and secondary branches in a very regular manner.
- Leaves
- Leaves up to 80 cm. long, regularly pinnate, usually imparipinnate though examples lacking the terminal leaflet are encountered.
- Leaflets
- Leaflets (3)6–7(12)—paired, up to 12(17) × 5(7·5) cm., sessile or with petioles of up to c. 10 mm. long, coriaceous (often strongly so), lanceolate-ovate (the terminal leaflet often broader and more ovate than the lateral paired ones); apices acute, often with a small mucro, rarely obtuse and emarginate; bases rounded to subcordate (rarely subcuneate); margins entire to slightly undulate, more or less convolute, becoming leathery and subglabrous, the lower surface more or less densely tomentose.
- Inflorescences
- Primary axes up to 40(70) cm. long, tomentose to subglabrous, bearing numerous laterals of 8(12) cm. long, densely crowded with flowers, but elongating somewhat as the fruit matures. Inflorescence a complex of compound racemosely arranged racemes.
- Flowers
- Pedicels up to 5 mm. long; petals greenish to creamy white, flowers honey-scented.
- Stylopodium
- Stylopodium somewhat depressed, styles widely divergent for most of their length.
- Fruits
- Fruit broadly-ovoid to subglobose, 3–4(6) × 3–5 mm., glabrous to slightly pubescent, somewhat ribbed.
Native to:
Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Botryopanax fulvus (Hiern) Hutch.
- Panax ferrugineus Hiern
- Panax fulvus Hiern
- Panax nigericus A.Chev.
- Polyscias elliotii Harms
- Polyscias ferruginea (Hiern) Harms
- Polyscias malosana Harms
- Polyscias polybotrya Harms
- Polyscias preussii Harms
- Sciadopanax elliotii (Harms) R.Vig.
- Sciadopanax ferrugineus (Hiern) R.Vig.
- Sciadopanax fulvus (Hiern) R.Vig.
- Sciadopanax malosanus (Harms) R.Vig.
- Sciadopanax polybotrya (Harms) R.Vig.
- Sciadopanax preussii (Harms) R.Vig.
Polyscias fulva (Hiern) Harms appears in other Kew resources:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2006 | Cheek, M. [11241], Cameroon | K000339126 | ||
| Apr 1, 2006 | Cheek, M. [11560], Cameroon | K000339127 | ||
| Jan 1, 1997 | Tekwe, C. [230], Cameroon | K000339357 | ||
| Nov 1, 1974 | Whyte, A. [n.s.], Malawi | K000350328 | ||
| Ethiopia | K000350316 | |||
| Drummond, R.B. [1752], Tanzania | 909.000 | |||
| Ujor, E. [30220], Cameroon | 6492.000 | |||
| Stolz, A. [1661], Tanzania | K000350320 | |||
| Stolz, A. [1661], Tanzania | K000350321 | |||
| Stolz, A. [1661], Tanzania | K000350322 | |||
| Mann, G. [301], Sierra Leone | K000350312 | Unknown type material | ||
| Mann, G. [301], Sierra Leone | K000350313 | |||
| [Rainton, F.] [141], Sao Tome and Principe | K000350314 | |||
| [Rothn], Dr. [s.n.], Ethiopia | K000350315 | |||
| Harris, T. [497], Malawi | K000614574 | |||
| Timberlake, J. [5281], Mozambique | K000614010 |
First published in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(8): 45 (1894)
Accepted by
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Jongkind, C. (2014). Fauna & Flora of Liberia, flowering plant species list www.liberianfaunaflora.org.
- Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
- Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Alves, T., Francisco, J., Harris, T., Nangoma, D. & de Sousa, C. (2009). Biodiversity and Conservation of Mchese Mountain, Malawi. Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036: 1-71. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199.
- Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
- 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.
- Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Lebrun in Publ. I.N.E.A.C. Sér. Sci. 1: 179, t. 15 (1935).
- Hutch. & Dalz. F.W.T.A., ed. 1, 1: 520 (1928)
- in E. & P. Pflanzenfam. 3, 8: 45 (1894)
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Jongkind, C. (2014). Fauna & Flora of Liberia, flowering plant species list www.liberianfaunaflora.org.
- Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
- Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- F. White, Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia p. 313 (1962).
- Keay, Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 750 (1958).
- F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 2: 356 (1952).
- W.J. Eggeling, Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate, ed. 2: 34, photo. 3 (1952).
- J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 60 (1949).
- Robyns, Flore des Spermatophytes du Parc National Albert 1: 692 (1948).
- A. Engler & O. Drude, Die Vegetation Der Erde, IX, Pflanzenwelt Afrikas 3 (2): 780 (1921).
- Harms in A. Engler & K. Prantl, Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 3 (8): 45 (1894).
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