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Alafia butayei

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Identification
Alafia butayei Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Alafia caudata Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg A.J.M., 1995
Related name
  • Alafia butayei
  • Alafia caudata

Flora

Entry for ALAFIA Butayei 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 Butayei Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
Information
Young branches very minutely pubescent, soon glabrescent, blackish when dry. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, gradually acuminate (acumen up to 5 lin. long, obtuse), rounded at the base, 2–3 in. long, 3/4–1 1/4 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; secondary nerves about 5 on each side, rather inconspicuous like the very lax venation; petiole 1–1 1/2 lin. long. Flowers in sessile or shortly peduncled terminal many-flowered finely pubescent pseudoumbels; peduncles up to 3 lin. long, slender; pedicels 3 lin. long. Calyx 1 lin. long, scantily pubescent; intracalycular glands 3, distinct; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliolate. Corolla glabrous without; tube 3 lin. long, constricted at the middle and narrowly cylindric below, pubescent within near the insertion of the stamens; lobes obliquely ovate-oblong, as long as the tube. Staminal cone distinctly exserted, 2 lin. long. Ovary pubescent, chiefly upwards.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea between Dembo (Ndembo) and the River Kuango, Butaye!
Notes
A. Butayei differs from A. caudata in the narrower leaves (which are always rounded at the base), the pubescent inflorescences, the ovate-lanceolate acute calyces and the distinctly exserted staminal cone.

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