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Baissea leonensis

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Identification
Baissea leonensis Bentham [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by F.J.H. van Dilst., Isotype of Baissea ogowensis Hua [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by Hua,
Related name
  • Guerkea floribunda
  • Orthandra leonensis
  • Baissea odorata
  • Baissea leonensis
  • Baissea elliptica
  • Baissea dichotoma
  • Guerkea uropetala
  • Baissea ogowensis
  • Baissea tenuiloba
  • Baissea lane-poolei

Flora

Entry for BAISSEA leonensis Benth. [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
BAISSEA leonensis Benth. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Hook., Niger Fl.: 452 (1849); Stapf in F.T.A. 4, 1: 213, 611 (1902); Huber in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 78 (1963); van Dilst in B.J.B.B. 64: 112, t. 11 (1995). Lectotype: Sierra Leone, sine loc., Vogel 119 (K, lecto.; BR, MO, NY, WAG, photo K, chosen by van Dilst)
BAISSEA alborosea Gilg & Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in Z.A.E. 2: 540 (1913). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Beni Urumu, Pojo, Mildbraed 2826 (B†, holo., K, lecto., chosen by van Dilst)
BAISSEA giorgii De Wild. [family APOCYNACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 5: 108 (1915). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Mobwasa, De Giorgi 794 (BR, holo.)
BAISSEA likimiensis De Wild. [family APOCYNACEAE], Pl. Bequaert. 5: 419 (1932). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Likimi, Malchair 501 (BR, holo.)
Information
Liana up to 40 m high or scandent shrub 3–8 m high; trunk up to 15 cm in diameter; bark red-brown, rough or smooth; branchlets minutely pubescent or glabrescent. Leaves petiolate; blade narrowly elliptic-oblong, rarely obovate, 3–8.5 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, acute to apiculate at the apex, cuneate, sometimes acute at the base, glabrous or puberulous to glabrescent; secondary veins in 6–17 pairs; domatia present, often red; petiole 3–20 mm long, minutely pubescent or glabrescent, with or without colleters above. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, few to many-flowered, dark pubescent in all parts; peduncles 2–29 mm long; pedicels 2–6.5 mm long. Flowers fragrant; sepals deltoid or narrowly ovate, 1–3.4 mm long, ciliate, with 3–6 colleters at the base; corolla tube white or yellow, sometimes purple-shaded outside, reddish-striped inside, funnel-shaped, 4–5.5 mm long, scales distinct or not, tufts of hairs at 0.3–0.7 mm from the base; corolla lobes white with a purple tinge or entirely pink, purple, red or yellow, narrowly ovate or oblong, 10–12 mm long,1–2.5 mm wide, obtuse at the apex; ovary cylindrical or subglobose; style up to 1 mm long, pubescent. Fruits dark red brown or grey brown, ribbed or smooth, sparsely pubescent, mericarps 15–105 cm long, up to 14 mm in diameter; seeds black, up to 32 mm long, coma 23–34 mm long. 
Range
DISTR. U 4 from Senegal to Uganda in the E and to Angola in the S
Altitude range
1100–1200 m
Distribution
UGANDA Mengo District near Entebbe, Feb. 1932, Eggeling 421! & Nyenga, Bagshawe 584 & Lutembe Bay, 14 km on Entebbe road, 28 Mar. 1959, Lind 2384!
Notes
USES. None recorded

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