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Mostuea rubrinervis

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Name

Identification
Mostuea rubrinervis Engl. [family LOGANIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bruce, E.A., Mostuea brunonis Didr. [family LOGANIACEAE ] Verified by Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., Mostuea rubrinervis Engl. [family LOGANIACEAE ] Verified by Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., Mostuea orientalis Baker [family LOGANIACEAE ] Verified by Leeuwenberg, A.J.M.,
Related name
  • Mostuea brunonis
  • Mostuea orientalis
  • Mostuea rubrinervis

Flora

Entry for MOSTUEA rubrinervis Engl. [family LOGANIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 503, (1904) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
MOSTUEA rubrinervis Engl. [family LOGANIACEAE], Jahrb. vii. 340 (rubinervis by error).
MOSTUEA orientalis Baker [family LOGANIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 96.
Information
A small shrub; branchlets slender, glabrous, brown. Leaves ovate-oblong or oblong, narrowed to an obtuse point with a minute mucro, 1–2 1/2 in. long, membranous, glabrous; petiole short; stipules ovate, obtuse. Cymes copious, axillary, few-flowered; pedicels much longer than the calyx; bracts minute. Calyx glabrous, 1/12 in. long; lobes 5, ovate, acute, longer than the very short tube. Corolla 1/3 in. long; tube broadly funnel-shaped; lobes 5, 1/6 in. long and broad. Capsule not seen.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Mombasa, Wakefield!

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