Uapaca sapiniiDe Wild. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Uapaca pilosaHutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Uapaca benguelensis
Uapaca pilosa
Uapaca sapinii
Uapaca masuku
Flora
Entry for UAPACA pilosa Hutchinson [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
UAPACA pilosaHutchinson [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Information
A shrub 4–5 ft. high; young branchlets stout, pubescent, tomentose at the tips. Leaves seen only in a young state, sessile, crowded at the ends of the branchlets, obovate-cuneate, rounded at the apex, 5–5 1/2 in. long, 2 1/4–2 3/4 in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous, pilose with long weak hairs on both surfaces; lateral nerves about 12 on each side, spreading, prominent on both surfaces; tertiary nerves lax and branched, not visible above; stipules subulate-lanceolate, about 2 lin. long, densely tomentose, soon falling off. Flowers not seen. Fruits nearly 1 1/2 in. in diam., glabrous. Exocarp crustaceous, about 1 lin. thick. Pyrenes 1 in. long, 1/2 in. broad.