mana (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
‘tekbe’ à grandes feuilles (Aubréville: ‘“Canthium” with largeleaves).’, Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
aowolikpoi (Fox) mbεli-wawa (FCD; S&F) ngega (def. -ai) (FCD; S&F) ngele-gale ( (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
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Flora
Entry for CANTHIUM subcordatum DC. [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 subcordatumDC. [family RUBIACEAE], Prod. iv. p. 473.
Information
Branches unarmed, terete, spreading, hispid-pubescent with short spreading hairs towards the extremities, glabrescent below. Leaves oval, obtuse or subacute, nearly rounded or subcordate at base, thinly coriaceous, glabrate above, hispidulous on the midrib and on the 7–8 pairs of lateral veins beneath, 1 1/2–3 1/2 by 3/4–2 in.; petiole 1/5– 1/4 in., hispidulous; stipules lanceolate-subulate from a broad base, 1/4 in. long, hispidulous outside, caducous. Flowers very small; peduncles bifid, cymose, many-flowered; stigma ovate (DC.). Fruit didymous or subdimidiate, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, on hispidulous pedicels of 1/4 in., in dichotomous cymes of 1 1/2–1 3/4 in.; common peduncle 3/4 in., puberulous or glabrate. Albumen ruminated.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea in moist woods near Albreda, Gambia, Leprieur and Perrottet, Heudelot!
