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Apodytes beninensis

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Name

Identification
Apodytes beninensis unrecorded [family ICACINACEAE ] Raphiostylis beninensis Planch. [family ICACINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hutchinson & Dalziel, Apodytes unrecorded unrecorded [family ICACINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Rhaphiostylis heudelotii
  • Apodytes beninensis
  • Rhaphiostylis beninensis
  • Apodytes unrecorded
  • Raphiostylis beninensis

Flora

Entry for APODYTES beninensis Hook. f. [family ICACINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 345, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
APODYTES beninensis Hook. f. [family ICACINACEAE], Ic. Plant. 778.
Rhaphiostylis beninensis Planch. [family ICACINACEAE], in Fl. Nigrit. 259.
Rhaphiostylis Heudelotii Planch. [family ICACINACEAE], Miers' Contrib. Bot. i. 60. t. 6.
Information
A glabrous shrub with terete extremities. Leaves firmly membranous or coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, rather obtusely acuminate, narrowed to the cuneate or but slightly rounded base, entire, glabrous, midrib prominent beneath, subdistant lateral veins moderately so, reticulation faint, 3–6 in. long, 1–2 1/4 in. broad; petiole 1–2 lines. Flowers 1/4– 1/3 in. long, pedicellate, in 3–10-flowered axillary fascicles or exceptionally subsolitary; pedicels glabrous, shorter than or equalling the flowers. Calyx glabrous; lobes ovate-rotundate. Filaments compressed below, subulate or filiform above. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Smith!Senegambia Upper Guinea !Upper Guinea Cape Palmas, T. Vogel!

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