Campylospermum vogelii (Hook.f. ex Planch.) Farron

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/63073/153944522

Conservation

LC - least concern

Ochnaceae, N. K. B. Robson. Flora Zambesiaca 2:1. 1963

Morphology General Habit

Shrub or small tree 2–6 (12) m. high, with brown bark and spreading or rounded crown; branches rather stout, olive-green, ± compressed and angular or striate at first, becoming yellowish- to orange-brown and polished.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves petiolate; lamina (8) 10·7–23 × (3) 3·6–6·7 (7) cm., oblanceolate or obovate to oblong or elliptic, acute or shortly and abruptly acuminate to rounded at the apex, with margin serrulate to undulate and sharply curved-serrate, cuneate or attenuate at the base, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, with ascending main veins linked by numerous ± widely spreading secondary veins and tertiary reticulations prominent above but less so or plane below; petiole (2) 4–6 (7) mm. long, ± stout, sometimes enlarged towards the base; stipules 3–5 mm. long, free or partly or completely united interpetiolarly, caducous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers solitary or paired or more usually in clusters of 3–8 in axils of deciduous bracts on a terminal or axillary paniculate inflorescence (usually shorter than surrounding leaves), with 1–4 (6) short or ± elongated spreading lateral branches; rhachis stout, olive-green, compressed, angular, striate; peduncle present or not; pedicels 7–16 mm. long in fruit, longer to shorter than the sepals, articulated at the base or in the lower 1/3.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Sepals 5–7 (8) mm. long in flower, lanceolate, subacute, becoming 7–9 (10) mm. long, red and ascending in fruit.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Petals bright yellow, (5) 7–11 (13) × (2·5) 3–4 mm., oblanceolate to obovate, with apex rounded or refuse.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens

Stamens with anthers (3) 4 (6) mm. long, orange-yellow, ± rugose and narrowed above.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Carpels

Carpels 5.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Drupelets 6–8 × 4–6 mm., ellipsoid-cylindric, ± compressed, not carinate.

Ochnaceae, B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005

Morphology General Habit

Shrub or small tree 1.5–12 m tall.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves fairly thin to distinctly subcoriaceous, mostly oblong or oblong-elliptic, less often elliptic-oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 3.5–15.5 cm long, 1–6.4 cm wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowly cuneate at the base, serrate or often almost entire; lateral veins ± 9, ascending, in depressions above but actual vein prominent, more prominent beneath; secondary veins numerous, ± parallel and at right-angles to midrib and tertiary reticulate venation between; petiole ± 4(–6) mm long; stipules 3 mm long, striate, aristate, soon deciduous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences subterminal, 4–12 cm long, shorter or sometimes much shorter than subtending leaf; cymes 1–2(–6)-flowered; peduncle ± 1 cm long; pedicels 5–6 mm long, enlarging to 13 mm in fruit.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Sepals 6–8 mm long, 2.5–3 mm wide.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Petals bright yellow, 5–8 mm long, 2.5–4 mm wide.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Drupelets black, ellipsoid, 7 mm long, 5 mm wide.

Habitat

Swamp forest, secondary evergreen forest; 1100–1200 m

Distribution

T1 U2 U4