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*''Ocotea viridis'' Kosterm. (1938).

*Bastard stinkwood, northern stinkwood, Transvaal stinkwood (En).

*Evergreen, small to medium-sized tree up to 30(–40) m tall; bole usually straight, up to 100(–150) cm in diameter; bark surface greyish brown to reddish brown, rough, scaling off in irregular flakes, with conspicuous, scattered lenticels, inner bark greenish white to yellowish brown or orange, turning dark grey to dark brown upon exposure; crown rounded, much-branched, dark green; branches with distinct leaf scars, twigs angular, short-hairy to nearly glabrous. *Leaves alternate, simple; stipules absent; petiole 0.5–1.5(–2) cm long; blade ovate to elliptical, (4.5–)6.5–22 cm × 2–10 cm, cuneate to rounded at base, acute to acuminate at apex, margins entire or wavy, leathery, glossy dark green above, paler below, often reddish at margins, red when young, glabrous, pinnately veined with 8–10 pairs of lateral veins, with aromatic scent. *Inflorescence an axillary or terminal cyme or panicle up to 7 cm long, densely greyish short-hairy, few-flowered; peduncle 0.5–1(–2.5) cm long. *Flowers bisexual or unisexual, regular, fragrant; pedicel 1–5 mm long, thickening in fruit; perianth lobes 6, ovate-elliptical to orbicular or obovate, 2–3.5 mm long, greenish yellow or whitish yellow, short-hairy; stamens (7–)9 in 3 whorls, anthers 4-celled, stamens of inner whorl with 2 glands at base, staminodes forming a fourth whorl around the ovary or absent; ovary superior, ovoid to globose, c. 1 mm long, glabrous, 1-celled, style 1–1.5 mm long, stigma disk-shaped; male flowers with reduced ovary, female flowers with reduced stamens. *Fruit an oblong-ellipsoid to ovoid-ellipsoid drupe-like berry 1.5–2.5 cm long, olive-green, at base enclosed in the cup-like enlarged receptacle c. 1 cm long, 1-seeded.

*Growth rings: (1: growth ring boundaries distinct); (2: growth ring boundaries indistinct or absent). *Vessels: 5: wood diffuse-porous; (11: vessel clusters common); 12: solitary vessel outline angular; 13: simple perforation plates; (14: scalariform perforation plates); (15: scalariform perforation plates with <font size="1">≤</font> 10 bars); 22: intervessel pits alternate; 23: shape of alternate pits polygonal; 25: intervessel pits small (4–7 μm); 31: vessel-ray pits with much reduced borders to apparently simple: pits rounded or angular; 32: vessel-ray pits with much reduced borders to apparently simple: pits horizontal (scalariform, gash-like) to vertical (palisade); 42: mean tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100–200 μm; 47: 5–20 vessels per square millimetre; (56: tyloses common). *Tracheids and fibres: 61: fibres with simple to minutely bordered pits; 65: septate fibres present; 66: non-septate fibres present; 69: fibres thin- to thick-walled. *Axial parenchyma: 78: axial parenchyma scanty paratracheal; 93: eight (5–8) cells per parenchyma strand. *Rays: 97: ray width 1–3 cells; 106: body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and/or square marginal cells; 115: 4–12 rays per mm. *Secretory elements and cambial variants: 124: oil and/or mucilage cells associated with ray parenchyma; 125: oil and/or mucilage cells associated with axial parenchyma.

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* F.S. Mairura, Kenya Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT, P.O. Box 30677, Nairobi, Kenya

Kenya Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT, P.O. Box 30677, Nairobi, Kenya * R.H.M.J. Lemmens , PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands

Mairura, F.S. & Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 2008. '''Ocotea kenyensis''' (Chiov.) Robyns & R.Wilczek. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.