Cordia irvingiiBaker [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by Wright, C.H., Cordia milleniiBaker [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Warfa, A.M., Cordia milleniiBaker [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by Hutchinson; Dalziel,
Related name
Cordia irvingii
Cordia millenii
Cordia platythyrsa
Flora
Entry for CORDIA Irvingii Baker [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 IrvingiiBaker [family BORAGINACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 113, partly.
Information
A fine spreading shade tree, 60 ft. high (Johnson). Branches tomentose when young. Leaves obovate or almost orbicular, up to 9 in. long by 6 1/2 in. broad, cuneate or slightly cordate at the base, upper surface minutely pitted, not scabrid, lower surface densely tomentose; petiole 5 in. long. Cymes in a much-branched terminal panicle; rhachis covered with ash-coloured pubescence; flowers polygamous. Male flower: Calyx tubular, 3-lobed, not sulcate, woolly pubescent outside, 5 lin. long; lobes ovate, acuminate, with a strong intramarginal nerve. Corolla funnel-shaped, yellowish (Johnson); tube 3 1/2 lin. long; lobes 6, oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 1 1/4 lin. broad. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat and as long as the lobes; filaments hairy on the part adnate to the tube. Rudiment of ovary ovoid, 1/2 lin. long, with an apical tuft of straight hairs. Female flowers not seen. Fruit oblong, obtuse, 1 1/2 in. long, 10 lin. in diam., seated on the enlarged hardened cup-shaped calyx.
