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Canthium cornelia

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Canthium cornelia Cham. & Schltdl. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Keetia cornelia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Bridson [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bridson D., 1985
Related name
  • Canthium subcordatum
  • Keetia venosissima
  • Canthium gueinzii
  • Canthium cornelia
  • Keetia cornelia
  • Canthium venosissimum
  • Canthium heudelotii
  • Canthium ruminatum
  • Pavetta cornelia
Common name
  • baro (Fox) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • dundoyiri (AEK; FRI) (GHANA, DAGAARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • lera-na (A Chev. fide JMD) (MALI, BOBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • kumwonga (AEK) (GHANA, MOORE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • koka (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • kalabé (A Chev. fide JMD) (MALI, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for CANTHIUM Cornelia Cham. et Schl. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
CANTHIUM Cornelia Cham. et Schl. [family RUBIACEAE], in Linnæa, iv. p. 15 (1829). —DC. Prod. iv. p. 473 (1830).
Pavetta Cornelia Reichenb. [family RUBIACEAE], in Hb. Sieber. Seneg. n. 21! et ex DC. l. c.
CANTHIUM senegalense A. Rich. ex DC. [family RUBIACEAE], l. c. p. 476, et in Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. v. p. 188 (1834).
Plectronia hirsuta DC. [family OLINIACEAE], l. c. p. 476.
Information
A twining tawny-pubescent unarmed shrub. Branches spreading. Leaves oval, obtusely or subacutely pointed at apex, rounded or emarginate at the base, thinly coriaceous, 1 1/2–3 by 3/4–1 3/4 in.; lateral veins about 6–8 pairs; petiole 1/8– 1/6 in., rather thick; stipules depresso-deltoid, apiculate, 1/5 in. long. Flowers about 1/6 in. long, on rather short pubescent pedicels more or less densely packed in subglobose or hemispherical panicles of about 1–2 in. diameter, on a stout common peduncle of 1/4– 3/8 in. Calyx-tube loosely pubescent, small; limb wider, deeply 5-lobed; teeth lanceolate, pilose-ciliate. Corolla glabrous outside; throat bearded; lobes 5, subobtuse. Anthers apiculate, longer than the filaments. Disk glabrous. Stigma far exserted, calyptriform; style glabrous. “Fruit 1-celled by abortion, subreniform” (A. Rich.).
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Sieber! and others.

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