Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra (Sond.) Kokwaro
First published in Kew Bull. 34: 756 (1980)
This subspecies is accepted
The native range of this subspecies is Kenya to S. Africa, Mayotte, Madagascar. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Angola, Botswana, Caprivi Strip, Comoros, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Poupartia caffra (Sond.) H.Perrier in Mém. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 18: 245 (1944)
- Sclerocarya caffra Sond. in Linnaea 23: 26 (1850)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Poupartia excelsa Marchand in Rév. Anacardiac.: 157 (1869)
- Sclerocarya caffra var. dentata Engl. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 4: 258 (1883)
- Sclerocarya caffra var. oblongifoliolata Engl. in Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas, C: 243 (1895)
- Sclerocarya schweinfurthiana Schinz in Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 29(Abh.): 63 (1888)
- Sclerocarya shakua Baker in Fl. Mauritius: 63 (1877)
- Shakua excelsa Bojer in Hortus Maurit.: 82 (1837), nom. nud.
- Commiphora acutidens Engl. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 44: 153 (1910)
- Commiphora subglauca Engl. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 469 (1912)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Kokwaro, J.O. (1986). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Anacardiaceae: 1-59.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Barthelat, F. (2019). La flore illustrée de Mayotte: 1-687. Biotope éditions.
- Exell, A.W., Fernandes, A. & Wild, H. (eds.) (1966). Flora Zambesiaca 2(2): 353-653. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 1994 | Smith, P.A. [5689], Botswana | K000511035 | No | ||
Miller, O.B. [522], Botswana | K000511030 | No | |||
Stuhlm., I. [604], Tanzania | K000423406 | isotype | Yes | ||
Smith, P.A. [1157], Botswana | K000511029 | No | |||
Pole-Evans, I.B. [4639], Botswana | K000511034 | No | |||
Drummond, R.B. [5290], Botswana | K000511033 | No | |||
Miller, O.B. [516], Botswana | K000511031 | No | |||
Miller, O.B. [516], Botswana | K000511032 | No | |||
Wild, H. [2329], Zimbabwe | Sclerocarya caffra | 16428.000 | No | ||
Milne-Redhead, E. [7684], Tanzania | Sclerocarya caffra | 23381.000 | No | ||
Gomes, A. [4072], Mozambique | Sclerocarya caffra | 6482.000 | No | ||
Schinz, H. [552], South Africa | Sclerocarya caffra | K000423399 | Yes | ||
Blackburn, J. [s.n.] | Sclerocarya caffra | K000423401 | Yes | ||
Blackburn [s.n.] | Sclerocarya caffra | K000423402 | Yes | ||
Schinz, H. [551], South Africa | Sclerocarya caffra | K000423400 | Yes |
Sources
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Flora Zambesiaca
- Flora Zambesiaca
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images