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Cordia africana

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Identification
Cordia africana Lam. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cordia africana
Common name
  • inderab (JMD) (NIGERIA, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • alilliba (auctt.) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • sebestier d’Afrique (Portères)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bamébani (Aub.) (MALI, FULA-PULAAR (Mali)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • álúwá (auctt.) (NIGERIA, KANURI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • lillibaare (pl. lillibaaje) the fruit (MM) lillibahi (pl. lillibaaje) the tree (MM) lillibani (KO&S) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • birtjuk, ngirli (NIGERIA, ARABIC-SHUWA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bamébani (Aub.; FB) (GUINEA, FULA-PULAAR (Guinea)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for CORDIA Myxa Linn. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CORDIA Myxa Linn. [family BORAGINACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 190. —Jacq. Fragm. t. 103, fig. 3; Del. Fl. Egypte, 191, t. 19, figs. 1–2; Wight, Ill. t. 169; DC. Prodr. ix. 479; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 82, partly; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 386; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 136; Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 717.
CORDIA Sebestena Forsk. [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. lxiii. not of others.
CORDIA africana Lam. [family BORAGINACEAE], Ill. i. 420, t. 96.
CORDIA officinalis Lam. [family BORAGINACEAE], Ill. i. 420, t. 96.
CORDIA domestica Roth [family BORAGINACEAE], Nov. Pl. Sp. 123.
Argyreia arborea Lour. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Fl. Cochinch. 135.
Information
A shrub or tree up to 40 ft. high; stem cylindrical, nearly 1 ft. in diam.; branchlets glabrous or nearly so. Leaves from oblong and dentate to orbicular and entire, very variable in size, glabrous above, glabrous or pubescent beneath; petiole 6–18 lin. long. Cymes in terminal (rarely axillary) lax panicles; branches slender, glabrous, pseudodichotomous; pedicels 1 lin. long. Calyx tubular-campanulate, sparingly hairy outside, densely clothed with short hairs inside, 2 lin. long; lobes short, rounded. Corolla white; tube cylindrical, as long as the calyx; lobes 5, oblong, about 2 lin. long, obtuse or emarginate. Stamens inserted at the corolla-throat; filaments hairy a short distance above the base. Style-arms linear. Fruit ovoid, apiculate by the persistent style-base, 6 lin. in diam., seated on the enlarged widely campanulate calyx.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Lower Zambesi; between Lupata and Sena, Kirk!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Karonga, Scott! Boruma on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 866!
Distribution (external)
Egypt
Madagascar
Tropical Asia
Queensland

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