Isotype of Toddaliopsis bremekampiiI.Verd. [family RUTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Toddaliopsis bremekampii
Flora
Entry for Toddaliopsis bremekampii Verdoorn [family RUTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 1, page 180, (1963) Author: F. A. Mendoça
Names
Toddaliopsis bremekampiiVerdoorn [family RUTACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1935: 204 (1935). TAB. 36 fig. B. Type from the Transvaal (Soutpansberg).
Information
Shrub or small evergreen tree up to 6 m. tall; young branches reddish, glabrous, older ones dark grey. Leaves petiolate; petiole 1–4 cm. long, grooved above; leaflets sessile or the central one sometimes petiolulate; lamina 3·5–8 (9) × 1·2–3·5 cm., elliptic or oblong-elliptic, shining above and light yellowish below, dotted with pellucid glands, acuminate or obtuse at the apex, margin entire and slightly revolute, narrowly cuneate at the base; secondary nerves slightly raised above. Inflorescence of axillary and terminal racemes as long as or shorter than the petiole of the subtending leaf; peduncles and pedicels sparsely and minutely puberulous; bracteoles 0·5 × 0·5 mm., caducous. Male flowers: pedicel 1·5–2 mm. long; sepals 1·5 mm. long, broadly ovate, imbricate; petals 3·5 × 1·5 mm., elliptic, imbricate; stamens somewhat flattened at the base, as long as the petals or slightly longer; anthers basifixed, 0·9 mm. long, deeply 2-lobed at the base; ovary vestigial. Female flowers not seen. Fruit 1·4 cm. in diam., densely verrucose, reddish-brown. Mature seeds not seen.
Habitat
In dry woodland or bush on sandy soils.
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, Porto Henrique, female fl. n. & fr. 14.xi.1944, Mendonça 2833 (LISC).Mozambique GI Muchopes, Manjacaze, fr. 26.i.1941, Torre 2543 (LISC).