Allophylus congolanus Gilg

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Allophylus

Characteristics

Slender several-stemmed erect scrambling or ± scandent shrub or small tree, 1.5–6 m. tall, monoecious ( fide Hauman); bark grey-brown or purplish black, smooth, conspicuously lenticellate; branchlets ferruginous-velvety-tomentose.. Leaves 1-foliolate or 3-foliolate with lateral leaflets very­ much reduced; petiole 2–4(–7) mm. long, ferruginous-tomentose; petiolules up to 2 mm. long; terminal leaflet elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 5–17.5 cm. long, 3–10.5 cm. wide, acute, subacuminate or obtuse at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, serrulate or crenulate-serrulate, velvety-tomentose on both surfaces or eventually pilose or pubescent above; lateral nerves in 8–12 pairs; lateral leaflets ± rounded, 1–3 cm. long and wide.. Inflorescences slender, unbranched, 6–20 cm. long, including 2–6 cm. long peduncle; flowers several in subsessile glomerules; pedicels up to 1.5 mm. long, pubescent.. Sepals yellow-green; outer ± round, 1.1 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, pubescent; inner 1 mm. long, 0.7 mm. wide pubescent.. Petals white, spathulate, 1.2 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide.. Filaments 1.5 mm. long.. Ovary 1.5 mm. long hairy; styles greenish white, 1.5 mm. long.. Fruits green becoming orange then bright orange-vermilion, of 1–2 mericarps, each globose, 7 mm. diameter, sparsely pubescent.
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Leaves 1-foliolate or 3-foliolate with the lateral leaflets much reduced; petiole 2–4 mm. long, fulvous-tomentose; terminal leaflet usually at least 4–5 times as long as the lateral ones (rarely only twice as long in a few leaves), the latter sometimes completely reduced; petiolules up to 2 mm. long; lamina of terminal leaflet 5–14 × 3–8·5 cm., elliptic or obovate-elliptic, tomentose on both surfaces and becoming pilose to pubescent above, minutely glandular beneath, apex acute and acuminate or sometimes obtuse, margin serrulate or crenulate-serrulate, base cuneate to rounded; lateral nerves 8–12 pairs.
Flowers in subsessile several-flowered glomerules; pedicels up to 1·5 mm. long, pubescent.
Outer sepals 1·1 × 1 mm., subcircular, pubescent, inner 1 × 0·7 mm., pubescent.
Inflorescence up to 11 cm. long, unbranched, tomentose to densely pubescent.
Stamens with filaments 1·5 mm. long in the male flowers.
(No mature male flowers in the material available).
Small tree or shrub; branchlets fulvous-tomentose.
Petals 1·2 × 0·5 mm., spathulate.
Fruit 6 × 3 mm., obovoid.
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

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Distribution

Allophylus congolanus world distribution map, present in Burundi, Tanzania, United Republic of, and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:781731-1
WFO ID wfo-0000526625
COL ID BYCF
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Synonyms

Allophylus congolanus Allophylus holstii Allophylus appendiculato-serratus Allophylus appenduculatoserratus Allophylus congolanus var. monophyllus