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Dioecious trees, with simple indumentum. Leaves alternate, opposite or in whorls of 3, digitately 3-8-foliolate, long-petiolate; stipules 0. Leaflets entire, stalked or sessile. Inflorescences cymose, axillary, solitary or in pairs; male inflorescences many-flowered; female inflorescences 1-3-flowered. Male flowers: sepals 5-8, unequal; petals 0; stamens 4-12, free; disk central, thick, fleshy. Female flowers: sepals longer and narrower than the male, persistent in fruit; ovary 2-3-locular with 2 ovules per loculus; styles 2-3. Fruits 2-3-locular, depressed ovoid-subspherical, tardily dehiscent into 2-3 valves. Seeds usually 3 per fruit, ± flattened.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Oldfieldia Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2291
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Oldfieldia

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Oldfieldia is a plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae, the only member of its subtribe (Paiveusinae). It was described as a genus in 1850.[2][3]

Oldfieldia is endemic to Africa.[1]

Species[1]

Oldfieldia is after Richard Albert Kearns Oldfield (R.A.K Oldfield) the British plant collector in Nigeria and Sierra Leone and surgeon on the 1832-1834 Niger River expedition with Laird and Lauder [4]

  1. Oldfieldia africana Benth. & Hook.f. - Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Republic
  2. Oldfieldia dactylophylla (Welw. ex Oliv.) J.Léonard - Zaïre, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola
  3. Oldfieldia macrocarpa J.Léonard - Zaïre
  4. Oldfieldia somalensis (Chiov.) Milne-Redh - Somali, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique

References

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Bentham, George & Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1850. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 2: 184-186 description in Latin, commentary in English
  3. ^ Tropicos, Oldfieldia Benth. & Hook. f.
  4. ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto. CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants.
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Oldfieldia: Brief Summary

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Oldfieldia is a plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae, the only member of its subtribe (Paiveusinae). It was described as a genus in 1850.

Oldfieldia is endemic to Africa.

Species

Oldfieldia is after Richard Albert Kearns Oldfield (R.A.K Oldfield) the British plant collector in Nigeria and Sierra Leone and surgeon on the 1832-1834 Niger River expedition with Laird and Lauder

Oldfieldia africana Benth. & Hook.f. - Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Republic Oldfieldia dactylophylla (Welw. ex Oliv.) J.Léonard - Zaïre, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola Oldfieldia macrocarpa J.Léonard - Zaïre Oldfieldia somalensis (Chiov.) Milne-Redh - Somali, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
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