Clitandra lacourtianaDe Wild. [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Orthopichonia barteri(Stapf) H.Huber [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Vonk G.J.A., 1988
Related name
Orthopichonia barteri
Clitandra lacourtiana
Flora
Entry for Clitandra lacourtiana De Wild. [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
Clitandra lacourtianaDe Wild. [family APOCYNACEAE], in De Wild. & Gentil, Lian. Caoutch Congo, 110, t. 24.
Information
A liane, up to 100 yards long, 6 in. in diam.; bark blackish-brown, shining with minute lenticels. Leaves oblong or obovate, very shortly cuneate at the base, abruptly acuminate (acumen linear, obtuse), 2 1/4–4 1/2 lin. long, 1 to almost 2 in. broad, midrib broad, shallowly channelled above, prominent below; lateral nerves very numerous, subhorizontal, connected by a wavy submarginal nerve close to the margin; petiole slender. Flowers unknown. Fruit globose or pyriform, smooth or subrugose, 1 2/3–4 in. in diam.; rind thick, hard, yellowish; seeds grey in a whitish pulp, 3–70, about 11 lin. long, 6 lin. broad.
Distribution
Congo South Central Kanda-Kanda, on the Luile River, Gentil, 64.
Notes
There is nothing in the description and plate to distinguish C. lacourtiana from C. cirrhosa, Radkl. The petioles are, in the description, said to be 5–10 lin. long, but figured as 2 1/2–5 1/2 lin. long. C. lacourtiana is stated to yield little and worthless rubber.
