Entry for COLUBRINA asiatica Brongn. [family RHAMNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 377, (1868) Author: (by Mr. W. B. Hemsley).
Names
COLUBRINA asiaticaBrongn. [family RHAMNACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. x. 369.
Information
An erect glabrous shrub or small tree with long, unarmed, slender branches. Leaves petiolate, ovate or broadly cordate, abruptly acuminate or gradually narrowed acute or obtuse, rotundate or subcordate at the base, 2–3 in. long, crenate-serrate, 3-nerved at the base, penninerved upwards, glabrous and shining. Flowers small, green, in shortly pedunculate axillary cymes about the length of the petiole. Fruit 3–4 lines in diam., slightly depressed at the top, furrowed opposite the dissepiments, dehiscing into 3 or rarely 4 cocci.
Range
Common throughout tropical Asia, extending to the Philippine Islands and tropical Australia.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Rovuma river, Dr. Meller! mouth of the Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! Also south of the tropic at Delagoa Bay, Forbes!
