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PSYCHOTRIA Kolly Schum. [family RUBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
PSYCHOTRIA Kolly Schum. [family RUBIACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Plant. p. 130.
Information
Glabrous, shrubby. Branches subdichotomous, subdivaricate, terete, above compressed and dark purplish. Leaves ovate-elliptical, attenuate at both ends, venose, shortly petiolate, green on both sides, in the dry specimens dark green above pale green below, 1–1 1/2 in. long; stipules interpetiolar, ovate, acute, persistent, 1/6 in. long. Corymbs fastigiate, axillary and terminal; peduncles bifid, many flowered; bracts sublanceolate, acute, minute, at the forks, dark purplish. Calyx minute, obsoletely or obtusely 5-toothed. Corolla tubular; tube cylindrical, rather curved inwards, nearly 1/4 in. long; lobes 5, ovate, rather acute.
Distribution
Guinea Upper Guinea according to Schumacher, where the natives call it “Kolly-tjo.”
Notes
In the British Museum there is a specimen from Cape Coast collected by Brass, which agrees with the above description except that the leaves are scarcely venose, the stipules are mostly deciduous, the corymbs are terminal (1 in. diam.) and trichotomously branched.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
PSYCHOTRIA Kolly Schum. [family RUBIACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Plant. p. 130.
Information
Glabrous, shrubby. Branches subdichotomous, subdivaricate, terete, above compressed and dark purplish. Leaves ovate-elliptical, attenuate at both ends, venose, shortly petiolate, green on both sides, in the dry specimens dark green above pale green below, 1–1 1/2 in. long; stipules interpetiolar, ovate, acute, persistent, 1/6 in. long. Corymbs fastigiate, axillary and terminal; peduncles bifid, many flowered; bracts sublanceolate, acute, minute, at the forks, dark purplish. Calyx minute, obsoletely or obtusely 5-toothed. Corolla tubular; tube cylindrical, rather curved inwards, nearly 1/4 in. long; lobes 5, ovate, rather acute.
Distribution
Guinea Upper Guinea according to Schumacher, where the natives call it “Kolly-tjo.”
Notes
In the British Museum there is a specimen from Cape Coast collected by Brass, which agrees with the above description except that the leaves are scarcely venose, the stipules are mostly deciduous, the corymbs are terminal (1 in. diam.) and trichotomously branched.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
PSYCHOTRIA Kolly Schum. [family RUBIACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Plant. p. 130.
Information
Glabrous, shrubby. Branches subdichotomous, subdivaricate, terete, above compressed and dark purplish. Leaves ovate-elliptical, attenuate at both ends, venose, shortly petiolate, green on both sides, in the dry specimens dark green above pale green below, 1–1 1/2 in. long; stipules interpetiolar, ovate, acute, persistent, 1/6 in. long. Corymbs fastigiate, axillary and terminal; peduncles bifid, many flowered; bracts sublanceolate, acute, minute, at the forks, dark purplish. Calyx minute, obsoletely or obtusely 5-toothed. Corolla tubular; tube cylindrical, rather curved inwards, nearly 1/4 in. long; lobes 5, ovate, rather acute.
Distribution
Guinea Upper Guinea according to Schumacher, where the natives call it “Kolly-tjo.”
Notes
In the British Museum there is a specimen from Cape Coast collected by Brass, which agrees with the above description except that the leaves are scarcely venose, the stipules are mostly deciduous, the corymbs are terminal (1 in. diam.) and trichotomously branched.
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