- Family: Phyllanthaceae Martinov
- Genus: Bridelia Willd.
Bridelia atroviridis Müll.Arg.
- Genus: Bridelia Willd.
[FZ]
Euphorbiaceae, A. Radcliffe-Smith. Flora Zambesiaca 9:4. 1996
- Morphology General Habit
- A forest tree up to 20 m high with a straight trunk up to 45 cm in diameter.
- Morphology General Bark
- Bark pale grey, ± smooth or rough.
- Morphology General Wood
- Heartwood dark.
- Morphology Branches
- Branches spiny.
- Morphology Twigs
- Twigs brown to dark purplish-brown, sparingly lenticellate.
- Morphology General Shoots
- Young shoots and petioles evenly to sparingly puberulous, later glabrescent, or else quite glabrous.
- Morphology Leaves Petiole
- Petioles 2–8 mm long.
- Morphology Leaves Stipules
- Stipules 3–8 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, acutely acuminate, evenly to sparingly pubescent, soon falling.
- Morphology Leaves Leaf lamina
- Leaf blades 2–17 × 1–10 cm, elliptic to oblanceolate, acutely acuminate, rounded-cuneate to subtruncate at the base, membranous, sparingly pubescent along the midrib and otherwise glabrous or else completely glabrous above, evenly to sparingly pubescent along the midrib and veins and sometimes glabrescent beneath, dark green and shiny above, mid-green and dull beneath, almost blackening above in drying; lateral nerves in 10–22 pairs, camptodromous, not or slightly prominent above, somewhat so beneath, tertiary nerves subparallel.
- sex Male
- Male flowers: pedicels c. 1 mm long, pubescent; sepals c. 2 × 1 mm, triangular-ovate, acute, pubescent without at the base, otherwise glabrous, often pinkish or purplish-tinged; petals 0.75 × 0.75 mm, spathulate, somewhat erose at the apex; disk 1.5 mm in diameter, annular, verruculose, ± entire; staminal column 1 mm high; anthers 0.75 mm long; pistillode 1 mm tall, ampulliform, bifid at the apex.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Female flowers subsessile or very shortly pedicellate; sepals ± as in the male; petals 0.5 × 0.5 mm, spathulate, subentire; outer disk as in the male; inner disk 3-lobed, lobes c. 1 × 1 mm, ± triangular, toothed at apex; ovary 1 × 0.75 mm, ovoid, 2-celled, styles 2, c. 1 mm long, ± free, bifid, stigmas ± smooth. Male flowers: pedicels c. 1 mm long, pubescent; sepals c. 2 × 1 mm, triangular-ovate, acute, pubescent without at the base, otherwise glabrous, often pinkish or purplish-tinged; petals 0.75 × 0.75 mm, spathulate, somewhat erose at the apex; disk 1.5 mm in diameter, annular, verruculose, ± entire; staminal column 1 mm high; anthers 0.75 mm long; pistillode 1 mm tall, ampulliform, bifid at the apex.
- sex Female
- Female flowers subsessile or very shortly pedicellate; sepals ± as in the male; petals 0.5 × 0.5 mm, spathulate, subentire; outer disk as in the male; inner disk 3-lobed, lobes c. 1 × 1 mm, ± triangular, toothed at apex; ovary 1 × 0.75 mm, ovoid, 2-celled, styles 2, c. 1 mm long, ± free, bifid, stigmas ± smooth.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit 6–8 × 5–6(7) mm when dried, obovoid-ellipsoid, 1-locular by abortion, green at first, blackish-brown when ripe.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seed 4 mm long, smooth, shiny, chestnut-brown.
[FWTA]
Euphorbiaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:2. 1958
- Morphology General Habit
- A forest shrub or tree, to 20 ft. high, with spiny stem.
Native to:
Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Bridelia atroviridis Müll.Arg. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
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Mar 1, 2010 | Gosline, G. [401], Cameroon | K000678376 | ||
Mar 1, 2008 | Cheek, M. [13396], Cameroon | K000541137 | ||
Jun 1, 2007 | Burgt, X.M. van der [873], Cameroon | K000460255 | ||
Apr 1, 2002 | Zapfack, L. [926], Cameroon | K000026539 | ||
Apr 1, 2002 | Tadjouteu, F. [312], Cameroon | K000026538 | ||
Nov 1, 1974 | Letouzey, R. [13160], Cameroon | K000180602 | ||
Sep 1, 1955 | Zenker, G.A. [833], Cameroon | K000406030 | Unknown type material | |
Welwitsch [370], Angola | K000406088 | Unknown type material | ||
K000406087 |
First published in J. Bot. 2: 327 (1864)
Accepted by
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Jongkind, C. (2014). Fauna & Flora of Liberia, flowering plant species list www.liberianfaunaflora.org.
- Breteler, F.J. (2012). Flore du Gabon 43: 1-107. Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
- Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo) Taxonomania. Revue de Taxonomie et de Nomenclature Botaniques 30: 1-307.
- Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438.
- Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199.
- Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
- Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
- Harris, D.J. (2002). The vascular plants of the Dzanga-Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic: 1-274. National Botanic Garden (Belgium), Meise.
- Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
- Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Fl. For. Soud.-Guin. 179–182, t. 32, 3.
- Aubrév. Fl. For. C. Iv. 2: 34, t. 133, 1–3
- Chev. Bot. 553
- —F.T.A. 6, 1: 614
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Jongkind, C. (2014). Fauna & Flora of Liberia, flowering plant species list www.liberianfaunaflora.org.
- Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438.
- Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
- Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
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