- Family: Anacardiaceae R.Br.
Lannea A.Rich.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & S. Africa, S. Arabian Peninsula, Indian Subcontinent to S. China and Indo-China.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Habit
- Trees, shrubs or subshrubs, dioecious or androdioecious
- Indumentum
- Young plants practically always with stellate indumentum, particularly on inflorescences, sometimes simple hairs present as well
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, 3-foliolate or rarely simple, usually clustered at the end of branchlets; leaflets opposite or subopposite, entire or toothed
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescences sometimes produced before the leaves, paniculate or spike-like
- Flowers
- Flowers 4-merous, with a cup-shaped crenulate disk; male flowers with 8 stamens and a rudimentary pistil; female or bisexual flowers with stamens shorter than ovary, ovary ovoid, 4-celled and with 4 subterminal styles
- Fruits
- Drupes ovoid to ± oblong, with prominent style-bases; endocarp woody, 1–2-celled by abortion and with 1–2 opercules at the apex
- Seeds
- Seeds somewhat reniform, compressed.
- Distribution
- Some 40 species in tropical Africa and Socotra, with three species extending into tropical Arabia and one species in southern Asia eastwards to China.
[FTEA]
Anacardiaceae, J. O. Kokwaro (University of Nairobi). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1986
- Habit
- Trees, shrubs or suffrutices; young plants usually with stellate indumentum; bark tough and used as string
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, trifoliolate or rarely unifoliolate, usually clustered at the end of the branches; leaflets sessile or petiolulate, opposite or subopposite, usually entire
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescences often produced before the leaves, ♂ essentially paniculate but the branchlets reduced to mere knobs on which the flowers are clustered so that they seem spike-like, ♀ racemose to spicate; sometimes the spikelike panicles are themselves branched
- Flowers
- Plants dioecious, sometimes the trees being entirely ♂ and others producing apparently bisexual flowers in which the stamens may or may not be functional Male flowers: calyx 4-partite, segments imbricate; petals 4, imbricate; stamens 8, with the subulate filaments inserted below the disk; anthers dorsifixed; disk somewhat cup-shaped, 8-crenulate with a 4-cleft vestigial ovary at the centre Female flowers: hermaphrodite or perhaps functionally ♀ only; perianth as in ♂; stamens shorter than ovary, but normally antheriferous; ovary ovoid or subglobose, 4-locular, with 2–3 abortive locules; ovule pendent from a long funicle attached at the apex of the locule; styles 3–4, free, subterminal; stigmas simple or subcapitate
- Male
- Male flowers: calyx 4-partite, segments imbricate; petals 4, imbricate; stamens 8, with the subulate filaments inserted below the disk; anthers dorsifixed; disk somewhat cup-shaped, 8-crenulate with a 4-cleft vestigial ovary at the centre
- Female
- Female flowers: hermaphrodite or perhaps functionally ♀ only; perianth as in ♂; stamens shorter than ovary, but normally antheriferous; ovary ovoid or subglobose, 4-locular, with 2–3 abortive locules; ovule pendent from a long funicle attached at the apex of the locule; styles 3–4, free, subterminal; stigmas simple or subcapitate
- Fruits
- Drupe compressed, obovoid, ovoid or ± oblong, showing persistent separated style-bases; mesocarp thin; endocarp woody, surface ridged and alveolate, with 1–2 ovate opercules at the apex
- Seeds
- Seeds somewhat reniform, compressed; cotyledons plano-convex.
[FZ]
Anacardiaceae, Rosette Fernandes & A. Fernandes. Flora Zambesiaca 2:2. 1966
- Habit
- Shrublets, suffrutices, shrubs or trees, with the young parts and inflorescences stellately tomentose.
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate, imparipinnate or 3-foliolate or rarely 1-foliolate, usually clustered at the end of the branches; leaflets entire, sessile or petiolulate.
- Inflorescences
- Panicles terminal or axillary, ± branched and pyramidal or spike-like (the lateral branches very short), often arising before the leaves.
- Flowers
- Male flowers: calyx 4-partite, the segments imbricate; petals 4, imbricate; stamens 8 with the filaments subulate inserted below the disk; anthers ovate or sagittate, dorsifixed; disk ± cup-shaped, 8-crenulate with a 4-cleft vestigial ovary at the centre. Female flowers: perianth similar to that of the male flowers; staminodes short; ovary ovoid or subglobose, 4-locular, with 2–3 abortive loculi; ovule pendent from a long funicle attached at the apex of the loculus; styles 3–4, subterminal; stigmas ± capitate.
- Fruits
- Drupe obovoid or ovoid, ± compressed or subglobose; mesocarp thin; endocarp woody, the surface unequally ridged and alveolate, with 1–2 ovate opercules at the apex.
- Seeds
- Seeds ± reniform, compressed; cotyledons plano-convex.
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Native to:
Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, Djibouti, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Lannea acida A.Rich.
- Lannea acuminata Engl.
- Lannea alata (Engl.) Engl.
- Lannea ambacensis (Hiern) Engl.
- Lannea angolensis R.Fern. & Mendes
- Lannea antiscorbutica (Hiern) Engl.
- Lannea asymmetrica R.E.Fr.
- Lannea barteri (Oliv.) Engl.
- Lannea chevalieri Engl.
- Lannea cinerascens Engl.
- Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.
- Lannea cotoneaster (Chiov.) Sacleux
- Lannea discolor (Sond.) Engl.
- Lannea edulis (Sond.) Engl.
- Lannea fruticosa (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Engl.
- Lannea fulva (Engl.) Engl.
- Lannea glabrescens Engl.
- Lannea gossweileri Exell & Mendonça
- Lannea humilis (Oliv.) Engl.
- Lannea katangensis Van der Veken
- Lannea ledermannii Engl.
- Lannea malifolia (Chiov.) Sacleux
- Lannea microcarpa Engl. & K.Krause
- Lannea nigritana (Scott Elliot) Keay
- Lannea obovata (Hook.f. ex Oliv.) Engl.
- Lannea rivae (Chiov.) Sacleux
- Lannea rubra (Hiern) Engl.
- Lannea schimperi (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Engl.
- Lannea schweinfurthii (Engl.) Engl.
- Lannea tibatensis Engl.
- Lannea transulta (Balf.f.) Radcl.-Sm.
- Lannea triphylla (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Engl.
- Lannea velutina A.Rich.
- Lannea virgata R.Fern. & A.Fern.
- Lannea welwitschii (Hiern) Engl.
- Lannea zastrowiana Engl. & Brehmer
Lannea A.Rich. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in J.B.A.Guillemin & G.S.Perrottet, Fl. Seneg. Tent. 1: 153 (1831)
Accepted by
- Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Engl. in E. & P. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 1: 213 (1897).
- in Guill. & Perr. Fl. Seneg. 1: 153 (1831)
Flora Zambesiaca
- in Guill., Perr. & Rich., Fl. Senegamb. Tent. 1: 153 (1831) nom. conserv.
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- in Guill., Perr. & Rich., Fl. Seneg. Tent. 1: 153 (1831), nom. conserv.
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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