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Carvalhoa macrophylla

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Identification
Carvalhoa macrophylla K.Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Carvalhoa campanulata K.Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg A.J.M., 1984
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Flora

Entry for CARVALHOA macrophylla K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 24, (1904) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
CARVALHOA macrophylla K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 381.
Information
A perfectly glabrous shrub, 9–12 ft. high; branches erect, straight, slender and compressed when young, green in the upper part, yellowish-grey below. Leaves elliptic or oblong, shortly and very acutely acuminate, acute at the base, 3 1/2–9 in. long, 1 1/2–3 3/4 in. broad, membranous; secondary nerves 10–16 on each side, somewhat prominent below; petiole up to 2 1/2 lin. long. Panicles 4–12-flowered, axillary, long-peduncled; pedicels 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate. Calyx 1 lin. long; sepals ovate, acute, minutely ciliolate. Corolla subcampanulate-funnel-shaped, 6 1/2 lin. long, pale yellow with red stripes in the puberulous throat; lobes rounded, 1 3/4–2 lin. long. Anthers inserted 1 3/4 lin. above the base of the corolla, 1 3/4 lin. long. Pistil 2 lin. long.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kondeland; in wooded gorges of the Gurumbi Mountains, near Uporoto, 5600 ft., Goetze, 1143.
Notes
There is a specimen in the herbarium of the British Museum, collected by Whyte near Zomba, Nyasaland, which agrees so closely with Schumann's description of C. macrophylla that I suspect it is the same species. The fruits attached to it, which are not perfectly mature, have been used for the completion of the description of the genus, the fruit of which was not previously known.

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