Bourreria linearisMiers [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Goreti Campos Rios, Bourreria microphyllaGriseb. [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by Marc Gottschling, Bourreria divaricata(DC.) G.Don [family BORAGINACEAE ] Ehretia divaricataDC. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
Related name
Bourreria linearis
Bourreria microphylla
Bourreria divaricata
Ehretia unrecorded
Ehretia divaricata
Bourreria setoso-hispida
Ehretia cymosa
Flora
Entry for EHRETIA divaricata Baker [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
EHRETIA divaricataBaker [family BORAGINACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 28.
Information
A small tree, with laxly thinly hairy branchlets. Leaves oblong, subobtuse, membranous, 3–4 in. long, smooth, glabrous except on the nerves, deltoid at the base; petiole short, slender. Cymes very lax and ample; branchlets slender, divaricate, pubescent; pedicels very short. Calyx puberulous; tube 1/4 lin. long; segments narrowly lanceolate, acute. Corolla 3 lin. in diam.; tube short; lobes oblong, obtuse, 1 1/2 lin. long. Stamens as long as the corolla-lobes; anthers oblong. Ovary conic; style about 1 lin. long, branches 3/4 lin. long, obtuse. Drupe not seen.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. near Chiradzulu (not Ischizadruaro, as originally quoted) Mountain, 3000 ft., Kirk!