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Conopharyngia contorta

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Identification
Tabernaemontana odoratissima (Stapf) Leeuwenb. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., Gabunia odoratissima Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] Conopharyngia contorta (Stapf) Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Conopharyngia contorta
  • Sarcopharyngia odoratissima
  • Gabunia odoratissima
  • Tabernaemontana odoratissima

Flora

Entry for CONOPHARYNGIA contorta Stapf [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
CONOPHARYNGIA contorta Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
Tabernæmontana contorta Stapf [family ], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 23.
Information
A tree, 30–40 ft. high; branches stout, terete, greenish. Leaves elliptic or subobovate, obtuse or subacuminate, rounded or shortly contracted at the base, 7–13 in. long, 4–7 in. broad, subcoriaceous; secondary nerves 9–15 on each side, like the midrib much raised below; petiole stout, 4–6 lin. long. Inflorescences subcorymbose; peduncle very stout, 4 in. long; bracts ovate, caducous; pedicels stout, up to 9 lin. long. Calyx 4–4 1/2 lin. long; sepals roundish-oblong, with numerous small basal glands within. Corolla white, sweet-scented; tube stout, much twisted, subcylindric, slightly widened near the base, 2–2 1/2 in. long, scantily pubescent within above the stamens, densely pubescent below towards the base and between the filamental ridges; lobes obovate-oblong, about as long as the tube. Stamens inserted 6–7 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; anthers long-sagittate, 7–8 lin. long. Style up to 7 lin. long.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Ambas Bay, Mann, 703! Victoria, Kalbreyer! Deistel, 132! 151! Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker & Staudt, 203 partly! Johann Albrechtshöhe, Staudt, 796!

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