Trichoscypha mannii Hook.
Creators: name: Breteler, F. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Anacardiaceae
Trichoscypha
Trichoscypha mannii

description: 11. Trichoscypha mannii Hook. f.
In Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Pl. 1: 423 (1862); Keay in Hutch. & Dalz., Fl. West Trop. Afr. ed. 2, 1: 736 (1958); Breteler, Adansonia, sér. 3, 23: 261 (2001).
— Type: Mann 941, Equatorial Guinea /Gabon, Gaboon R., lat. 1°N., ♀ fl. July 1861 (holo-, K!).
Trichoscypha turbinata Lecomte, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 52: 658 (1906). — Type: Klaine 49, Gabon, near Libreville, juv. fr. July 1896 (holo-, P!).
Trichoscypha longipetala Baker f., in Rendle et al., Cat. Talbot Nig. Plants: 22 (1913); Keay in Hutch. & Dalz., Fl. West Trop. Afr. ed. 2, 1: 736 (1958). — Type: Talbot 1681, Nigeria, Oban, ♀ fl. 1912 (holo-, BM!; iso-, WAG!).
Trichoscypha soyauxii Engl. & Brehmer, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 54: 319 (1917). — Type: Soyaux 379, Gabon, Sibange-Farm, ♀ fl. Sep. 1881 (holo-, B, delet.). Neotype (designated here): Breteler & Van Raalte 5652, Gabon, Gamba, fr. Sep. 1968 (WAG!; iso-, BR!, LBV!).
Trichoscypha subretusa Engl. & Brehmer, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 54: 317 (1917). — Syntypes: Ledermann 629, Cameroun, Ilende, fl. Sep. 1908; Ledermann 908, Cameroun, Nkolebunde, fr. Oct. 1908 (B, delet.). Neotype (designated here): Binuyo & Daramola FHI 35596, Cameroun, Kumba, ♂ fl. Mar. 1956 (WAG!; iso-, BR!, K!, P!).
Trichoscypha gambana Jongkind, Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 63: 224 (1994). — Type: Wieringa 1242, Gabon, Gamba, ♂ fl. July 1992 (holo-, WAG!; iso-, BR!, LBV, MO!).
Shrub-treelet up to 6 m tall, or tree up to c. 15 m tall, trunk 15 cm dbh, or liana up to at least 25 m high. Leaves up to 17-jugate, up to c. 1 m long, with hispid to pubescent to tomentose petiole and rhachis, the lowest pair of leaflets sometimes close to the stem; leaflets usually papery, ovate-elliptic to oblong lanceolate, (8-)12-20(-27) × (1-)3- 8(12) cm, up to 13 times as long as wide, usually slender-tipped, mostly with long hairs, but sometimes pubescent to tomentose to glabrous or nearly so. Inflorescences (sub)terminal or axillary, shorter than the leaves, hispid or soft-hairy. Flowers (Mar.- Oct.), petals (2.5) 3-5 mm long, usually dark-red. Fruits (May-Dec.) subovoid-ellipsoid, usually beaked, (2-)3-3.5(-4) × 1-1.5 cm, dark-red at maturity, ± densely to sparsely hairy. — Figs 2A; 9; 10.
HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION. — Rain forest from Nigeria to Congo (Brazzaville). Alt. up to c. 300 m. Also known from Upper Guinea.
SELECTED SPECIMENS. — CAMEROUN: Binuyo & Daramola FHI 35596, Kumba, fl. Mar. (K!, P!, WAG!); Nemba & Thomas 7, Konye, fl. Apr. (MO!); Tchouto et al. 3050, Mobiogo on Dipikar I., fl. Sep. (WAG!); Tchouto et al. 3253, Massif des Mamelles, fl. Apr. (WAG!); Tchouto et al. ONOX 273, Onoyong, fl. Mar. (WAG!); Zenker 80, Bipindi, fl. Mar. (K!, P!). — CONGO (Brazzaville): Moutsambote & Dowsett-Lemaire 4521, Koubotchi, juv. fr. Sep. (BR!). — GABON: Breteler & Van Raalte 5652, Gamba, fr. Sep. (BR!, LBV!, WAG!); Breteler 5767, 50 km SE Lambaréné, fr. Oct.(WAG!); Breteler et al. 9746, Rabi, near Echira R., ster. Apr. (WAG!); Breteler & Jongkind 10340, Mondah, fr. Nov. (WAG!); Breteler c.s. 15548, Assok road, fl. b. Aug. (LBV!, WAG!); Chevalier 26975, Agonenzorck, fr. Oct. (P!); Klaine 49, Libreville, juv. fr. July (P!); Le Testu 1586 bis, Issala, fr. Oct. (P!); Louis et al. 1311, Waka, fr. Dec. (WAG!); Reitsma c.s. 1359, 40 km SW Doussala, juv. fr. Aug. (WAG!); Reitsma c.s. 2608, Lopé Res., fr. Nov. (LBV!, WAG!). — NIGERIA: Latilo & Oguntayo FHI 67725, Bendiga Ayuk, fr. Feb. (WAG!); Mann 2238, Old Calabar R., fl., fr. (K!, P!); Talbot 1681, Oban, fl. (BM!, WAG!). — CULTA (Netherlands): De Bruijn 1894, Wageningen, seedling (WAG!); Van Veldhuizen 1384, Wageningen, seedling (WAG!).
NOTES. — The variability in shape of the leaflets of Trichoscypha mannii is illustrated in Figure 9. The type of the synonym T. gambana (Fig. 9A) represents one of the extreme leaflet shapes within the species, but its flowers are unmistakably of T. mannii. More or less the same holds for the other synonyms. Neotypes have been designated for two of the synonyms whose original type material was destroyed at Berlin. They were selected taking into account the original description and the origin of types.
description: Published as part of Breteler, F. J., 2004, The genus Trichoscypha (Anacardiaceae) in Lower Guinea and Congolia: A synoptic revision, pp. 97-127 in Adansonia (3) (3) 26 (1) on pages 115-118, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4605259