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Ritchiea gossweileri Exell & Mendonça

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Capparaceae > Ritchiea

Characteristics

Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 6–9 x 2.5–3.5 cm., elliptic, apiculate-acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, glabrous on both sides, midrib prominent below, nerves 5–7, rather prominent above, more so below; petiole slender, up to 5 cm. long; petiolules c. 3 mm. long.
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Fruit up to 4 x 1.0 cm. (? not quite mature), green and glossy, narrowly ellipsoid, papillose-verrucose, narrowed to a blunt apex, 4-valved.
Inflorescence of axillary racemes with 3–6 flowers; pedicels 2.5–3 cm. long, glabrous; basal bracteoles minute, c. 1 mm. long, subulate.
Sepals 3.0 x 0.7–0.9 cm., narrowly and sometimes obliquely lanceolate, apex acuminate, margin minutely pubescent.
Stamens numerous; filaments up to 2.5 cm. long, glabrous; anthers 4 x 0.8 mm., arcuate, linear.
Slender-stemmed woody climber up to 3 m. tall with densely lenticellate, glabrous branches.
Ovary 5 x 1.2 mm. on a glabrous gynophore up to 2.5 cm. long, narrowly ellipsoid, glabrous.
Petals 4, greenish-yellow, up to 3.0 x 0.2 cm., narrowly linear-lanceolate.
Seeds c. 5 mm. in diam., subglobose, embedded in a somewhat fleshy pulp.
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Distribution

Ritchiea gossweileri world distribution map, present in Angola and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:148007-1
WFO ID wfo-0000399096
COL ID 4T6TB
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Synonyms

Ritchiea gossweileri
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