Ochna baronii (Tiegh.) Callm. & Phillipson

Callmander, Martin, W. & Phillipson, Peter B., 2012, Notes on the genus Ochna L. (Ochnaceae) in Madagascar, Candollea 67 (1), pp. 142-144 : 299

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15553/c2012v671a14
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5730458
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scientific name	Ochna baronii (Tiegh.) Callm. & Phillipson
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Ochna baronii (Tiegh.) Callm. & Phillipson View in CoL , comb. nova

× Diporidium baronii Tiegh. View in CoL in Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 8, 16: 359. 1902.

Typus: MADAGASCAR: Chiefly North-West , received IX.1887, fl., Baron 5457 (holo-: P [ P00730643 ]!; iso-: K!) .

Observations. – This species is known from rocky habitats and forest patches in the Isalo and Makay Massifs in the southwest, through the dry forests of the, west and north-west on of the type specimen (Baron 5457), lacks aprecise collecting locality, but, based on information from Baron’s notes is believed to have been collected in the vicinity of the «Androna Province» which is taken to be the Androna Plateau (Bas Plateau d’Androna) some 50 km south of the town of Antsosihy, in Sofia Region of Mahajanga Province (WAHLERT, pers. comm.). Ochna baronii differs from O. pervilleana Baill. by its shorter leaves (ca. 3 cm long instead of ca. 5-8 in O. pervilleana ) and its solitary flowers (inflorescences always with 2 or more flowers in O. pervilleana ).