Entry for RUTIDEA decorticata Hiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
RUTIDEA decorticataHiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Information
A scandent shrub of 30 feet, glabrous in most parts. Branches subterete, patent, smooth; outer bark thin, soon peeling off. Leaves broadly oval, abruptly acuminate, obtusely narrowed at the base, glabrous except little hairy tufts beneath in the axils of the 7–9 pairs of clearly marked lateral veins, thinly coriaceous, 3 1/2–7 by 1 1/2–4 in.; petiole 2/3–1 1/3 in. long, rather rough by the cracking and peeling of the cuticle; stipules solitary, undivided, much apiculate from a broadly ovate or subtruncate base, 1/4– 1/3 in. long. Flowers pentamerous (perhaps also by exception tetramerous), 1/5 in. long on shorter bracteolate pedicels in divaricately branched terminal and sessile or lateral and pedunculate panicles; bracteoles lanceolate, somewhat pubescent, falling short of the calyx-limb, some with a small lobe on each side of the base. Calyx 1/15 in. long; limb half-cleft; tube glabrous or nearly so; lobes ovate, often ciliolate. Corolla glabrous throughout; tube short; lobes oval, 1/8 in. long. Style glabrous; stigma clavate-fusiform.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountains, at 2000–3000 feet alt., Mann!