Buxus benguellensisHutch. [family BUXACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Buxus benguellensis
Buxus unrecorded
Flora
Entry for BUXUS benguellensis Gilg [family BUXACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
BUXUS benguellensisGilg [family BUXACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 115.
Information
A tree or shrub, glabrous in all its parts; branchlets tetragonous, longitudinally sulcate. Leaves rhomboid-oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, gradually narrowed into a very short petiole, obtuse at the apex, less than 1 in. long, about 1/3 in. broad, subchartaceous to almost coriaceous, shining on the upper surface, dull below; nerves close, parallel, distinct above but not below. Flowers not known.