Araliaceae
Neocussonia

Neocussonia lukwangulensis (Tennant) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin

First published in Candollea 72: 279 (2017)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania (Uluguru Mountains, Usambara Mountains). It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/34220/9851330

Conservation
EN - endangered
[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
A much branched tree to 15 m. tall (fide Greenway & Eggeling), or an epiphyte on trees (fide E.M. Bruce).
Morphology Leaves
Leaves digitately compound with up to 4 shortly petiolulate leaflets, or sometimes reduced to a single similar leaflet; petiole up to 18 cm. long and 1.5 mm. diameter, ribbed, glabrous and uniform in cross-section for greater part of length, expanding considerably at base; leaflets narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, very narrowly elliptic and very narrowly oblong-elliptic, up to 14.5 cm. long by 3.3 cm. wide, long-acuminate, attenuate at base, with the margin slightly inrolled, entire to repand and slightly crisped, glabrous or nearly so, often with circular pustules of up to 0.3 mm. diameter covering both surfaces; petiolules up to 2.2 cm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence a group of up to about 20 racemes of umbellules, each (raceme) up to 20 cm. long and floriferous only on the terminal third, in which region the peduncles of umbellules are arranged spirally; peduncles 1.5–2.5 cm. long; umbellules 10–15-flowered; pedicels up to 7 mm. long.
Figures
Fig. 3/1, 2.
Habitat
Upland rain-forest on steep slopes, locally dominant on rocky ridges; 1380–2400 m.
Distribution
known only from the Uluguru Mts. T6
[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

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • 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