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Acokanthera laevigata

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Isotype of Acokanthera laevigata Kupicha [family APOCYNACEAE]
Holotype of Acokanthera laevigata Kupicha [family APOCYNACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Isotype of Acokanthera laevigata Kupicha [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Kupicha F, 1980
Related name
  • Acokanthera laevigata
  • Acokanthera longiflora

Flora

Entry for ACOKANTHERA laevigata Kupicha [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2002) Author: E.A. OMINO
Names
ACOKANTHERA laevigata Kupicha [family APOCYNACEAE], in K.B. 37, 1: 58 (1982) & in F.Z. 7, 2: 406 (1985). Type: Tanzania, Kilwa District, Libungani, Page Jones H9/36 (K, holo., EA!, iso.)
Information
Tree 5–12 m high with white sticky latex; bark pale brown, fissured; slash pale yellow, fibrous, wood white; branches glabrous; branchlets glabrous or puberulous. Leaves petiolate; petiole 5–6 mm long, glabrous or puberulous; blade elliptic, 4–13 cm long, 3.5–7.3 cm wide, cuneate or rounded at the base, obtuse to rounded or acute at the apex with a hard mucro, rarely emarginate, glabrous to puberulous especially on midrib beneath. Inflorescence of contracted axillary cymes; sepals ovate, 2.5–3.5 mm long, apiculate, ciliate otherwise glabrous. Corolla tube pink, 9.5–11 mm long, sparsely pubescent outside, pubescent in the upper half inside; lobes white, ovate-cuspidate, 3–4 mm long, glabrous, densely hairy at the base and mouth of the tube, ciliate; stamens just visible at anthesis; anthers 1 mm long, apiculate at the apex, apiculus 0.6–0.7 mm long; pistil 9–10 mm long. Fruit ovoid, 2.5–3 cm long, up to 2.5 cm in diameter. 
Range
DISTR. T 6–7
Altitude range
1–2000 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Bagamoyo District Bagamoyo, 17 Sept. 1935, Raymond DSM 80!;TANZANIA Morogoro District Liwale, June 1950, Ionides in Bally 7925!;TANZANIA Iringa District Lupeme Tea Estate, 30 Aug. 1971, Perdue & Kibuwa 11307!
Distribution (external)
; Malawi
Notes
USES. All parts of the plants are poisonous except the ripe fruit; used in arrow poison

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