Araliaceae
Astropanax

Astropanax stolzii (Harms) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin

First published in Candollea 72: 273 (2017)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania (Rungwe District). It is a climber and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/47347501/47347520

Conservation
VU - vulnerable
[IUCN]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Araliaceae, J. R. Tennant. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1968

Morphology General Habit
Liane with grey-brown bark and stems up to 20 m. long and as thick as an arm (fide Harms).
Morphology Leaves
Petiole up to 22 cm. long by 3.5 mm. diameter, glabrous; leaflets 5–6, coriaceous, narrowly ovate or ovate to narrowly obovate or obovate, sometimes elliptic or broadly elliptic, up to 15 cm. long by 8 cm. wide, long-acuminate, with a rounded to acute, occasionally subcordate, rarely oblique base, with repand to almost entire, sometimes very slightly crisped margins, glabrous; petiolules 2.5–6 cm. long by 1.5 mm. diameter.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules sheath-like, up to about 7 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence (fig. 5/8) an umbel of bracteate racemes of small shortly pedunculate ± globular capitula 5–7 mm. diameter when flowers in bud; primary branches up to 25 cm. long by 3 mm. diameter, with scattered lenticels; secondary branches (peduncles of capitula) up to 5(–9) mm. long, borne in the axils of puberulous, broadly ovate to deltoid bracts up to almost 3 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers sessile, up to about 10–12 together.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruits ± urceolate, 3–4 mm. long by 3–4 mm. diameter, ± 5-ribbed, minutely puberulous or glabrous; stylopodium up to 7 mm. long; styles 5, free and spreading for up to 0.5 mm. terminally.
Habitat
Upland rain-forest; 1600-about 2100 m.
Distribution
not known elsewhere T7
[FTEA]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0