Mostuea gilletiiDe Wild. [family LOGANIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Mostuea brunonisDidr. [family LOGANIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg A.J.M., 1960
Related name
Mostuea brunonis
Mostuea gilletii
Flora
Entry for Mostuea Gilletii De Wild. [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 GilletiiDe Wild. [family LOGANIACEAE], Études Fl. Bas et Moyen Congo, i. 174.
Information
A tree. Branches slender, densely velvety with yellows hairs turning rusty brown. Leaves oval-oblong, apiculate, cuneate at the base, 9–20 lin. long, 5–9 lin. wide, velvety on both surfaces, ciliate, paler beneath. Cymes terminal or terminating lateral branches, 2–3-flowered; pedicels 1 lin. long, accrescent. Calyx 1 1/2 lin. long, velvety; lobes very acute, wide at the base, 1 lin. long. Corolla about 4 lin. long; tube enlarged at the throat; lobes rounded, about 1 lin. in diam. Stamens equal. Fruit reniform, velvety, seated on the persistent calyx, which is 5 lin. in diam. and with lobes 3 lin. long.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Valley of the Djuma, Gentil, Gillet, 2914, 2928.