- Family: Phyllanthaceae Martinov
- Genus: Bridelia Willd.
Bridelia ferruginea Benth.
- Genus: Bridelia Willd.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & S. Africa.
[FWTA]
Euphorbiaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:2. 1958
- Habit
- A savannah shrub or tree, to 20 ft. high, often with spines
- Flowers
- Flowers greenish-yellow
- Disc
- Reddish disk
- Ecology
- The more sparsely pubescent forms come mainly from the moister regions.
[FZ]
Euphorbiaceae, A. Radcliffe-Smith. Flora Zambesiaca 9:4. 1996
- Habit
- A shrub or small tree up to c. 6 m high with spiny branches.
- Bark
- Bark cracked, grey.
- Twigs
- Twigs dark brown.
- Shoots
- Young shoots and petioles denseley ferrugineous-tomentose.
- Petiole
- Petioles 5–7 mm long.
- Stipules
- Stipules 5–6 × 1.5–2 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, tomentose, readily caducous.
- Leaf lamina
- Leaf blades 4–10 × 3–5.5 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, subacute to shortly obtusely acuminate, rounded, truncate or sometimes cordulate at the base, thinly coriaceous, evenly pubescent along the midrib and main nerves above and beneath, otherwise sparingly so, glossy green above and paler beneath when fresh, drying dark brown or greyish-brown above, dark reddish-brown beneath; lateral nerves in 7–10 pairs, cheilodromous, scarcely prominent above, prominent beneath, tertiary nerves parallel, fairly prominent beneath, quaternary nerves reticulate.
- Male
- Male flowers: pedicels 1–1.5 mm long, puberulous; sepals 2 × 1 mm, triangular-ovate-lanceolate, acute, puberulous without, glabrous within, yellowish-green; petals 1 × 0.75 mm, obdeltoid-spathulate, incised or tridentate at the apex, cornute, glabrous; disk 1.5–2 mm in diameter, annular, ± smooth; staminal column 1 mm high; anthers 0.7 × 0.5 mm; pistillode 0.5 mm high, conical, notched at apex.
- Flowers
- Female flowers subsessile; sepals 1.5 × 1.5 mm, triangular, thick, otherwise as in male; petals elliptic-obovate, puberulous without, otherwise as in male; outer disk ± as in male; inner laciniate at the apex, ciliate within, pubescent or subglabrous; ovary 1.5 × 1 mm, ellipsoid, 2-celled; styles 2, c. 1 mm long, ± free, bifid, stigmas ± smooth. Male flowers: pedicels 1–1.5 mm long, puberulous; sepals 2 × 1 mm, triangular-ovate-lanceolate, acute, puberulous without, glabrous within, yellowish-green; petals 1 × 0.75 mm, obdeltoid-spathulate, incised or tridentate at the apex, cornute, glabrous; disk 1.5–2 mm in diameter, annular, ± smooth; staminal column 1 mm high; anthers 0.7 × 0.5 mm; pistillode 0.5 mm high, conical, notched at apex.
- Female
- Female flowers subsessile; sepals 1.5 × 1.5 mm, triangular, thick, otherwise as in male; petals elliptic-obovate, puberulous without, otherwise as in male; outer disk ± as in male; inner laciniate at the apex, ciliate within, pubescent or subglabrous; ovary 1.5 × 1 mm, ellipsoid, 2-celled; styles 2, c. 1 mm long, ± free, bifid, stigmas ± smooth.
- Fruits
- Fruit c. 7 × 4–5 mm when dried, ellipsoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 1-locular by abortion, green at first, then reddening and becoming purplish-black at maturity.
- Seeds
- Seeds 5 × 3 mm, smooth, brownish.
Native to:
Angola, Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Bangladesh
Bridelia ferruginea Benth. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 1, 1973 | Mbenkum, T. [385], Cameroon | K000180601 | ||
Jan 1, 1963 | Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. [4402], Burkina Faso | K000385804 | ||
Sep 1, 1955 | Vogel [62], Nigeria | K000406031 | ||
Keay, R.W.J. [37458], Cameroon | K000180599 | |||
Andrews, F.W. [1825], Sudan | 2103.000 | |||
Vogel [s.n.], Nigeria | K000406033 | Unknown type material | ||
Vogel [s.n.], Nigeria | K000406032 | |||
Laferrere, M. [66], Mali | K000385806 | |||
Toutain, B. [2782], Burkina Faso | K000385802 | |||
Brunt, M.A. [52], Cameroon | K000180597 |
First published in W.J.Hooker, Niger Fl.: 511 (1849)
Accepted by
- Sarder, N.U. & Hassan, M.A. (eds.) (2018). Vascular flora of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 3: 1-978. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.
- 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.
- 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.
- Calane da Silva, M., Izdine, S. & Amuse, A.B. (2004). A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Mozambique: 1-184. SABONET, Pretoria.
- 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.
- Lebrun, J.P., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
- 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. 181, t. 32, 1.
- Aubrév. Fl. For. C. Iv. 2: 34
- —F.T.A. 6, 1: 619, partly
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Sarder, N.U. & Hassan, M.A. (eds.) (2018). Vascular flora of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 3: 1-978. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.
- Jongkind, C. (2014). Fauna & Flora of Liberia, flowering plant species list www.liberianfaunaflora.org.
- Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
- Calane da Silva, M., Izdine, S. & Amuse, A.B. (2004). A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Mozambique: 1-184. SABONET, Pretoria.
- Harris, D.J. (2002). The vascular plants of the Dzanga-Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic: 1-274. National Botanic Garden (Belgium), Meise.
- Lebrun, J.P., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
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