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Cordia holstii

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Name

Identification
Cordia africana Lam. [family EHRETIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2007 Cordia holstii Gürke [family EHRETIACEAE ] Verified by Gürke,
Related name
  • Cordia africana
  • Cordia holstii

Flora

Entry for CORDIA Holstii Gürke [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 Holstii Gürke [family BORAGINACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 335, t. 41. —Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 306.
Information
A tree 20 ft. high, with the habit of Tilia, but with a rounder crown; young branchlets pubescent. Leaves suborbicular or broadly ovate, broadly rounded or subcordate at the base, entire, subcoriaceous, 3–5 in. long, yellow scurfy on the upper surface when young, soon glabrous, densely yellow tomentose beneath; petiole 1–1 1/2 in. long. Cymes 3–5-flowered, in lax terminal panicles; branchlets and calyx densely tomentose. Calyx campanulate-turbinate, shallowly 10-sulcate, 3 lin. long; teeth 4–5, short, broadly deltoid. Corolla white, 9 lin. long, shallowly and roundly lobed. Stamens much shorter than the corolla; anther-cells divaricate at the base; filaments hirsute at the base. Style exserted; arms flat.
Distribution
Uganda Nile Land Lendu Plateau, west of the Albert Nyanza, Stuhlmann, 2735.German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 4900 ft., Volkens, 249! Usambara: Kisara, in forest, Holst, 2347! Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 9068!British East Africa Nile Land Galunka, Kässner, 778!
Notes
This much resembles some of the Nyasaland specimens of C. abyssinica, R. Br.

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