Lannea virgata R.Fern. & A.Fern.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Anacardiaceae > Lannea

Characteristics

Leaves arising before the flowers, 3–7-foliolate; petiole and rhachis 13–18 cm. long, subterete, slender, tomentose to glabrescent; lateral and terminal leaflets similar, (4·5)6–10·5 × (2·5)3·2–4·5 cm., roundish, ovate to oblong, contracted at the apex into an acute acumen up to 1 cm. long, rounded or cordate, symmetric or a little asymmetric and petiolulate at the base (lateral petiolules up to 9 mm., the terminal one up to 3 cm. long), membranous to subcoriaceous, at first ± densely rufous-tomentose with slender, long-armed stellate hairs on both surfaces, then glabrescent above and ± arachnoid-tomentose beneath, the margin somewhat incurved in the old leaves; midrib and the arched lateral nerves visible but not prominent above, slightly raised below as also the venation, covered with a tomentum somewhat denser than that of the lamina.
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Inflorescences 1·5–6 cm. long, spike-like, very compact, densely clustered above the leaf-scars along the leafless stems, with salmon-pink-stellate-tomentose axis.
Stems unbranched or somewhat branched, upright, salmon-pink, 60–90 cm. tall, cylindric, striate, stellate-tomentose to glabrescent.
Petals yellow flushed with red, c. 3·5 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, constricted at the base.
Drupe reddish, 9–10 × 6–7 × 3 mm., oblong, asymmetric, compressed.
Male flowers in bundles; pedicels 0–1·5 mm. long, tomentose.
Calyx-segments flushed with red, ovate, obtuse, tomentose.
A many-stemmed suffrutex.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.6 - 0.9
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Distribution

Lannea virgata world distribution map, present in Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:69816-1
WFO ID wfo-0000360255
COL ID 3S7H5
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Synonyms

Lannea virgata