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Cameraria zeylanica

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Isotype of Cameraria zeylanica Retz. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Strophanthus wightianus Wall. ex Wight [family APOCYNACEAE]
Holotype of Hunteria zeylanica (Retz.) Thwaites [family APOCYNACEAE]
Hunteria zeylanica (Retz.) Gardner ex Thwaites [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Hunteria zeylanica (Retz.) Gard. ex Thwaites [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Hunteria zeylanica Gardner ex Thwaites [family APOCYNACEAE]
Lectotype of Cameraria zeylanica Retz. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Cameraria zeylanica Retz. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Hunteria zeylanica (Retz.) Thwaites [family APOCYNACEAE]
Filed as Cameraria zeylanica [family APOCYNACEAE]
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Identification
Isotype of Cameraria zeylanica Retz. [family APOCYNACEAE ] Isotype of Hunteria zeylanica Gardner ex Thwaites [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cameraria zeylanica
  • Hunteria corymbosa
  • Apocynum nerium
  • Hunteria zeylanica

Flora

Entry for HUNTERIA zeylanica (Retz.) Thwaites [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
HUNTERIA zeylanica (Retz.) Thwaites [family APOCYNACEAE], in Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 191 (1860); Pichon in Bull. Soc. Brot. sér. 2 (27): 104 (1953); Kupicha in F.Z. 7 (2): 430 (1985); K.T.S.L.: 480, ill., map (1994); Omino in Wageningen Agric. Univ. Pap. 96 (1): 122, t. 34 (1996). Type: Sri Lanka, Koenig s.n. (C!, holo; BM, K-WALL!, C, MO, iso.)
Cameraria zeylanica Retz [family APOCYNACEAE], in Obs. Bot. 4: 24 (1786); A.DC., Prodr. 8: 389 (1844)
Hunteria africana K. Schum [family APOCYNACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 317 (1895); T.T.C.L.: 50 (1949). Types: Tanzania, Pangani, Stuhlmann 77 (B†, syn.); Bagamoyo, Stuhlmann 206 (B†, syn.); Tanga district, Sawa, Faulkner 1626 (K!, neo., B, BR, FT, P, isoneo., chosen by Omino)
Hunteria zeylanica (K. Schum.) Pichon var. africana [family APOCYNACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Brot. sér. 2, 27: 104 (1953); K.T.S. 47 (1961)
Information
Tree or shrub 1–15(–40) m high; trunk 2–30 cm in diameter; bark grey, slightly fisssured; wood very hard, dense, whitish to yellow. Leaves petiolate; blade coriaceous, elliptic, oblong to obovate, 2–21 mm long, 0.9–6.7 cm wide, apex rounded to acuminate with acumen 4–10(–17) mm long, cuneate to rounded at the base; petiole 6–17 mm long. Inflorescence terminal rarely also axillary, 10–65(–96)-flowered; bracts ovate to triangular, up to 1.3 mm long; peduncle 5–40 mm long; pedicels 3.8–10 mm long. Flowers with sepals resinous within, ovate to triangular, up to 2.5 mm long; corolla white to pale yellow, orange at throat; tube creamy green, 6–10 mm long; lobes pure white, ovate, 3.7–8.8 mm long, 1.8–3.5 mm wide, obtuse at the apex; stamens inserted at 4.5–8 mm from the base; pistil 5.5–9.5 mm long; ovary abruptly narrowing into the style, ovules 2 in each carpel; style 3.5–7.2 mm long. Fruits obovoid to globose, smooth, 13–30 mm long; 10–15 mm wide, apex rounded and sometimes stipitate at the base. Fig. 12 (p. 37).
Range
DISTR. K 1, 4, 7; T 3, 6; Z, P
Altitude range
0–350 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Tana R. at Chewele [Chebele], 26 Oct. 1945, Adamson 168 (Bally 6068)!;KENYA Meru District Meru National Park, Masanduku camp, Hamilton 93!;KENYA Kilifi District near Hadu [Adu], Jan. 1937, Dale 1077!TANZANIA Tanga District Mamboni beach, near Tanga, 13 Nov. 1953, Faulkner 1280!;TANZANIA Uzaramo District Kawe, 11 km N of Dar, 15 Jan. 1971, Harris & Jones 5551!;TANZANIA Bagamoyo District Bagamoyo, Feb. 1889, Sacleux 678!TANZANIA Pemba, 26 Oct. 1926, Vaughan 885
Distribution (external)
; Somalia
Mozambique
India
Sri Lanka
Burma
Thailand
Cambodia
Laos
Vietnam
S China (Hainan)
Malaysia
Indonesia
Notes
USES. Wood used for implements

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