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Terminalia gazensis
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Name
Identification
Terminalia gazensis Baker,f. [family COMBRETACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Exell,A.W.,
Related name
- Terminalia gazensis
Flora
Entry for Terminalia gazensis Bak. f. [family COMBRETACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 100, (1978) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Terminalia gazensis Bak. f. [family COMBRETACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 69 (1911).—Garcia in Contr. Conhec. Fl. Moçamb. 2: 145 (1954).—Griffiths in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 55: 892, fig. 25 (1959).—Boughey in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 30, 4: 167 (1964).—Exell in Kirkia, 7, 2: 242 (1970).—Faria in Mem. Inst. Invest. Agron. Moçamb. 4: 135 (1973). Type: Mozambique, Mossurize Distr., Swynnerton 152a (BM, holotype).
Information
Small tree 7–17 m. high; bark dark-brown, fissured; branchlets tomentellous when young, glabrous with grey-brown fibrous bark. Leaves spirally arranged, petiolate; lamina 6–14 x 3·5–7 cm., papyraceous to chartaceous, obovate to elliptic, pubescent to shortly pilose or almost glabrous, apex usually acuminate, margin usually crenulate, base cuneate and sometimes narrowed; lateral nerves 5–8 pairs, prominulous above, somewhat prominent beneath; petiole up to 4 cm. long, usually rather slender. Inflorescences of axillary spikes 3·5–10 cm. long; rhachis appressed-pubescent; peduncle up to 3·5 cm. long, appressed-pubescent. Flowers white, foetid, glabrous. Sepals deltate to triangular. Stamens 4 mm. long; anthers 0·6 mm. long. Disk barbate. Fruit red or greenish-yellow, 2·5–3 x 1·5–2 cm., oblong-elliptic, glabrous, apex subtruncate and emarginate, base rounded to subtruncate, stipe 4–5 mm. long.
Habitat
Brachystegia woodland at medium altitudes or in tree savanna
Range
Not known elsewhere
Altitude range
at lower altitudes
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimoio Distr., Monte Garuso, fl. i.1948, Mendonça 3584 (BM; K; LISC).Zimbabwe S Belingwe Distr., south tip of Great Dyke, fl. immat. 8.xii.1960, Wild 6399 (FHO; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chipinga Distr., Chirinda Forest margin, 1525 m., fl. i.1962. Goldsmith 14/62 (FHO; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Selukwe Distr., Ferny Creek, 1220 m., fl. 8.xii.1953, Wild 4295 (FHO; SRGH).Mozambique N between Porto Amelia and Mecufi, fl. 27.x.1942, Mendonça 1093 (LISC).Malawi S Blantyre, Mpatamanga Gorge, fl. immat. 8.xii.1960, Chapman 1072 (FHO; K).Zimbabwe N Kariba, fl. & fr. i.1959, Goldsmith 1/59 (K; SRGH).
Notes
E.M. & W. s.n. (LISC) growing in a garden at Marracuene, Mozambique, has glabrous fruits c. 6 x 2·5 cm. Apart from the much larger fruits (possibly the effect of cultivation) it closely resembles T. gazensis but might be T. gazensis x sambesiaca.Typically this species has nearly glabrous leaves usually with crenulate margins (a very unusual feature in the Combretaceae). Griffiths (loc. cit.) has included specimens such as Wild 4344 (FHO; SRGH) = GHS 44793 from the Belingwe Distr. with thicker very hairy leaves and entire margins which may be a distinct serpentine tolerant species or subspecies.