- Family:
- Celastraceae R.Br.
Loeseneriella A.C.Sm.

[FTEA]
Celastraceae, N.K.B. Robson, N. Hallé, B. Mathew and R. Blakelock†. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1994
- Morphology General Habit
- Tall lianes or scandent shrubs; old stems grooved with fairly deep furrows filled with parenchyma (this structure allows a certain degree of flexibility in tall lianes); the most massive of these trunks sometimes break into four separate stems which repeat the structure of the original
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves mostly opposite, petiolate; blade entire or moderately crenulate
- Morphology Leaves Stipules
- Stipules free or borne on a transverse flange-like structure
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences of axillary cymes without accessory branches
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers usually with conical buds
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals 5, equal or unequal, rather small
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 5, valvate or with the margins slightly overlapping, often rather long, glabrous or pubescent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Disc
- Disc very variable in its degree of development, often complex with a collar-like base encircling a separate fleshy pad, sometimes cup-like with the centre extended upwards into a thick fleshy column
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 3; anthers with extrorse transverse dehiscence; pollen in monads, tricolporate, ± 20–40 ? in diameter, finely reticulate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary thin-walled, enclosed within the base of the filaments; ovules 4–15(–20) per locule; style conic-pyramidal with a punctiform stigma
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit of 3 dehiscent mericarps, each with 2 caducous valves
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Cotyledons fused Seeds winged, with a marginal and submedian vein (the raphe), inserted into pocket-like structures at the point of attachment Germination hypogeal.
Native to:
Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Loeseneriella africana (Willd.) R.Wilczek
- Loeseneriella andamanica (King) H.B.Naithani & S.Biswas
- Loeseneriella apiculata (Welw. ex Oliv.) R.Wilczek
- Loeseneriella apocynoides (Welw. ex Oliv.) N.Hallé ex J.Raynal
- Loeseneriella barbata (F.Muell.) C.T.White
- Loeseneriella bourdillonii (Gamble) D.C.S.Raju
- Loeseneriella camerunica (Loes.) N.Hallé
- Loeseneriella chesseana (Pierre) Tardieu
- Loeseneriella clematoides (Loes.) R.Wilczek
- Loeseneriella concinna A.C.Sm.
- Loeseneriella crenata (Klotzsch) R.Wilczek
- Loeseneriella cumingii (M.A.Lawson) Ding Hou
- Loeseneriella dinhensis (Pierre) A.C.Sm.
- Loeseneriella ectypopetala N.Hallé
- Loeseneriella griseoramula S.Y.Pao
- Loeseneriella iotricha (Loes. ex Fritsch) N.Hallé
- Loeseneriella lenticellata S.Y.Bao
- Loeseneriella macrantha (Korth.) A.C.Sm.
- Loeseneriella merrilliana A.C.Sm.
- Loeseneriella nicobarica (Kurz) H.B.Naithani & S.Biswas
- Loeseneriella parkinsonii (Chakrab. & M.Gangop.) B.D.Naithani
- Loeseneriella pauciflora (DC.) A.C.Sm.
- Loeseneriella rowlandii (Loes.) N.Hallé
- Loeseneriella rubiginosa (H.Perrier) N.Hallé
- Loeseneriella serrata (Griff.) A.C.Sm.
- Loeseneriella sogerensis (Baker f.) A.C.Sm.
- Loeseneriella urceolus (Tul.) N.Hallé
- Loeseneriella yaundina (Loes.) N.Hallé ex R.Wilczek
- Loeseneriella yunnanensis (Hu) A.C.Sm.
Loeseneriella A.C.Sm. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Oct 1, 2007 | Cheek, M. [11495], Cameroon | K000023339 | No |
First published in Amer. J. Bot. 28: 438 (1941)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- N. Hallé in Mém. I.F.A.N. 64: 103 (1962)
- R. Wilczek in F.C.B. 9: 148 (1960)
- in Adansonia, sér. 2, 17: 398 (1978)
- in Amer. Journ. Bot. 28: 438 (1941)
- in Fl. Cameroun 32: 190 (1990)
- in Fl. Gabon 29: 233 (1986)
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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