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Argomuellera macrophylla

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Filed as Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Holotype of Pycnocoma sapinii De Wild. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Neotype of Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Filed as Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Type of Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Type of Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Filed as Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Filed as Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Filed as Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Filed as Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Type of Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Filed as Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Neotype of Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Holotype of Pycnocoma laurentii De Wild. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Filed as Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Filed as Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Filed as Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leonard J., 1995
Related name
  • Argomuellera macrophylla
  • Pycnocoma hirsuta
  • Pycnocoma laurentii
  • Pycnocoma sapinii
Common name
  • blakassi blakassa (B&D) ‘ (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • mprepre (CV; FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-BRONG), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ’ béiro titi (B&D) (IVORY COAST, NÉKÉDIÉ), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • peingyσ = spiny leaf (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for ARGOMUELLERA macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
ARGOMUELLERA macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 90. —Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, 246; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 495; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 201. Mildbr. Wiss. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 454.
Pycnocoma Sapini De Wild. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, ii. 285, and Comp. Kasai, 331.
Pycnocoma hirsuta Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 51.
Pycnocoma parviflora Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 81.
Information
Shrub 6–12 ft. high, with tawny- or rusty-pubescent branchlets. Leaves very shortly petioled, thinly to firmly chartaceous, oblanceolate-oblong, 8–16 in. long, 2–5 in. wide, acuminate, sharply serrate especially towards the apex, much narrowed to the entire very acute base, glabrous above, hirsute with spreading hairs on the nerves beneath; petiole rusty- or tawny-pubescent, 1/6 in. long; stipules pubescent, narrow-lanceolate, 1/4 in. long. Racemes several from the upper axils, 2–8 in. long; rhachis slender, pubescent with spreading hairs; bracts spreading, ovate, acute, pubescent; flowers glomerulate, each cluster usually with several males and a single central female, sometimes with only a female in the terminal glomerule, occasionally with all the glomerules of male flowers only. Male sepals 3 or 4, reflexed, ovate-lanceolate, 1/5 in. long. Stamens numerous, exserted, mixed with glabrous or sparingly hirsute interstaminal glands. Female sepals 5 or 6, rather distinctly 2-seriate, the inner the smaller, narrow-ovate, acute, imbricate. Ovary 3-celled, densely tawny-pubescent; styles recurved, stigmatic on the inner face above, connate in their lower third. Capsule subglobose, somewhat 3-sulcate, breaking up into 3 2-valved cocci, densely pubescent, 1/3 in. across. Seeds globose, brown, 1/5 in. across.
Distribution
Spanish Guinea Lower Guinea Bebai, Tessmann, 563! 624! 924!Congo Lower Guinea Ogowe, Leroy!Congo Lower Guinea without precise locality, Smith!Angola Lower Guinea Benguella; Cangullo, Gossweiler, 3806!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Itara, Mildbraed, 144!Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. Chirinda Forest, 3700–4000 ft., Swynnerton, 114!Uganda Nile Land Mabira Forest, 3900 ft., Dawe, 202! Ussher, 69! forest near Mfanga, Bagshawe, 1165! Unyoro; Badonga Forest, Bagshawe! and without precise locality, Stuhlmann, 1313!Congo South Central Eastern Prov.; Fort Beni, Kwa Muera, Mildbraed, 2251! Irumu, Angalla, 3600 ft., Mildbraed, 2854! forest west of Issongo-Semliki, 2900 ft., Stuhlmann, 2692! Semliki, Karimi, Mildbraed, 1988! Kasai; Lulua, Pogge, 1376! 1393! Sankuru, Sapin! between Lubua and Bena-Mahima, Sapin!Ivory Coast Upper Guinea Zaranou; Indenie, Chevalier, 17634! between Mbosso and Zaranou, Chevalier, 17600!

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