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Alafia lucida

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Name

Identification
Alafia lucida Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg,A.J.M., Alafia cuneata Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Alafia barteri
  • Alafia stuhlmannii
  • Alafia major
  • Alafia cuneata
  • Alafia glabriflora
  • Wrightia stuhlmannii
  • Malouetia unrecorded
  • Alafia lucida
Common name
  • momonimo (JMD) (GHANA, AKAN-TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • tiegbanhema folué (B&D) (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ebuliniama (B&D) (IVORY COAST, KYAMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for ALAFIA lucida Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
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 24, (1904) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
ALAFIA lucida Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 122. —K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 231.
ALAFIA cuneata Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], l.c. 122; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 673.
ALAFIA reticulata K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 165.
Wrightia Stuhlmannii K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 319, and in Engl. & Prantl, l.c. 183.
Information
A tall, scandent shrub, up to 40 ft. high, quite glabrous except the inflorescences; branches blackish when dry. Leaves obovate to oblong or elliptic, obtuse or obscurely acuminate, acute to cuneate at the base, 2–4 in. long, 1–1 3/4 in. broad, more or less coriaceous, shining and dark above, pallid below; secondary nerves 4–5 on each side, oblique; veins very lax, faint; petiole up to 2 1/2 lin. long. Corymbs shortly peduncled or sessile, many-flowered or reduced to few-flowered cymes, very finely, and sometimes scantily, puberulous; peduncle up to 6 lin. long; bracts minute; pedicels slender, up to 2 1/2 lin. long. Calyx almost glabrous, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; sepals ovate. Corolla fragrant, yellow with a red centre; tube 1 3/4–2 lin. long; hairy within below the stamens, otherwise glabrous or very minutely puberulous; lobes obliquely truncate-obovate, ciliolate on the inner side, 3–5 lin. long. Anther-tips very shortly exserted. Carpels slightly pubescent. Follicles 7–12 in. long, glabrous.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Muni (Danger) River, Mann, 1752!Angola Lower Guinea Golungo Alto; in dense forests of Alto Queta and near Camilungo, Welwitsch, 5953! Loanda, Welwitsch, 5954!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Karagwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3611!Uganda Nile Land Entebbe Forest, Whyte, A! Mahon! and without precise locality, Johnston!Niger Upper Guinea banks of the River Nun, Mann, 491! Old Calabar River, Mann, 2245!Cameroons Upper Guinea Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 145! Bipinde, Zenker, 1450!

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