WorldFloraDB - Rhamnus prinoides l'hér.

Characteristics

Shrubs or trees up to 8 m. tall, the branches sometimes scrambling or sprawling.. Year-old branches blackish, lenticellate, glabrate; youngest twigs usually minutely pubescent with dark spreading hairs.. Leaf-blades elliptic-ovate to ovate-elliptic or narrowly so, (1–)2–10 cm. long, (8–)14–40 mm. wide, rounded to cuneate at base, acuminate, firm, lustrous, nearly glabrous except for minute hairs on the major nerves beneath, glandular-serrulate, on each side of midrib with 4–6 secondary nerves which are impressed above, prominulent beneath; petioles (3–)5–10 mm. long.. Stipules subulate, 3–5 mm. long, minutely pubescent, caducous.. Flowers rarely solitary, usually in fascicles of 2–3(–8), 5-merous; pedicels filiform, minutely pubescent, 3–10 mm. long in flower, 7–15 mm. in fruit.. Cup minutely pubescent externally, 2 mm. wide.. Sepals ± 2 mm. long.. Petals spatulate, ± 1 mm. long, or usually absent in East African populations.. Fruit nearly globose, 5–6 mm. thick, reddish.. Fig. 6.

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Shrub or small tree, 1-8 m high. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, petioled, toothed; stipules small, deciduous. Flowers mostly bisexual, in axillary cymes or racemes. Calyx urceolate or flat; lobes 5, deltate, erect or spreading. Petals 5, cucullate or flat. Disc inconspicuous, lining calyx tube. Stamens 4 or 5, shorter than calyx lobes. Ovary superior, sometimes immersed in disc, 3-or 4-locular; styles 3-or 4-fid. Fruit a slightly fleshy drupe, red to purple-black when ripe, turbinate. Seed 3 or 4, obovoid.

Evergreen shrub or small tree, sometimes scrambling, up to 5 m high. Leaves with blade elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 30-100 x 15-40 mm, upper surface dark green, shiny, margins crenate or serrate, pinnately nerved. Flowers: small, axillary, 5-merous; corolla green; Nov.-Jun. Fruit a 2-or 4-locular, fleshy, shiny drupe, dark red to black when mature.

Leaves alternate; lamina 3–10 × 1·5–4 cm., elliptic or oblong-elliptic, apex acute or acutely acuminate, margin serrulate, base cuneate or rounded, glabrous, shining, with nerves impressed above, pubescent on nerves below, tertiary venation conspicuous; petiole 3–10 mm. long, pubescent; stipules subulate, up to 5 mm, long.

Shrub or small tree, sometimes scrambling, up to 5 m high. Leaves penninerved, usually crenate or serrate, lamina elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 30-100 x 15-40 mm. Fruit 2-4-locular, a fleshy drupe. Flowers 5-merous; green.

Shrub or small tree to 7 m. Leaves elliptic, serrate, glossy above. Flowers in axillary fascicles, greenish. Fruits thinly fleshy, turbinate, red to black.

Shrub or small tree, sometimes scrambling; bark blackish, often with many lenticels; young branches pubescent, glabrescent with age.

Inflorescence a sessile axillary 2–10-flowered fascicle; pedicels 2–7 mm. long, puberulous.

Fruit turning through red to purple-black when ripe, c. 5 mm. in diam., slightly fleshy.

Ovary 3(4)-locular; ovules 1 in each loculus; style 2 mm. long, 3(4)-fid.

Petals 5, small, spathulate, hyaline or absent.

Sepals 5, deltate, c. 2 mm. long.

Stamen-filaments 1 mm. long.

Receptacle puberulous.

Disk 2·5 mm. in diam.

Seeds 3–4, obconic.

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Mountain forests, esp. in clearings and along edges; along water courses; in riverine forests; margins of evergreen forests; and also in secondary, mountain evergreen forests and mountain slopes, frequently among rocks. Wet forests in Eritrea.

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Uses	dye environmental use food fuel gene source material medicinal oil social use timber wood
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

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