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Cordia platythyrsa

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Identification
Cordia platythyrsa Barker [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Olorunfemi, J., 1980
Related name
  • Cordia irvingii
  • Cordia unrecorded
  • Cordia millenii
  • Cordia populifolia
  • Cordia odorata
  • Cordia platythyrsa
Common name
  • tweneboa (CJT; FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ehuno (FRI) kanedaguru (FRI) (GHANA, ANYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • aunde (FRI) (GHANA, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • sao (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • an-fundoba (FCD; S&F) an-ranko (Burbridge; JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • pooli (the timber, Sierra Leone)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • achaboa (CJT) (GHANA, ANYI-SEHWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • twenedoleye (CJT) (GHANA, NZEMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • puli (def.-i) (auctt.) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kyeneboa (FRI) tweneboa (CJT; DF) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • aundé (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • g-bon (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, AKYE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kyeneboa (DF) tweneboa (CJT) (GHANA, FANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ehuno (Aub.) kanédaguru (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, ANYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ako-ledo (AHU, JMD) ọ̀mọ̀ (KO&S) ọ̀mọ̀ wẹ́wẹ́ (Dawodu) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • goléhéhiré (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, KRU-GUERE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for CORDIA platythyrsa 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 platythyrsa Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27.
CORDIA populifolia Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c.
CORDIA lrvingii Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c. 1895, 113, partly.
CORDIA odorata Gürke [family BORAGINACEAE], in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 59.
Information
A tree 30–80 ft. high; branchlets pubescent. Leaves ovate to suborbicular, up to 5 in. long and 4 1/4 in. broad, shortly acuminate, obtuse at the base, irregularly crenate or almost entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; lateral nerves about 5 on each side; petiole 1 1/2–2 in. long. Cymes in a terminal ample divaricately branched panicle; branches and short pedicels densely pubescent; flowers polygamous. Calyx 2 lin. long, funnel-shaped, densely pubescent outside, not sulcate; lobes 3–5, oblong, obtuse. Corolla funnel-shaped; lobes 4–5, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 3–5, inserted in the corolla-throat; filaments hairy below their insertion. Fruit oblong, acute, glabrous, 6 lin. long, seated on the enlarged campanulate calyx.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Bagru River, Mann, 875!Gaboon Lower Guinea Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 390! 451.Lagos Upper Guinea Abeokuta, Irving!Cameroons Upper Guinea Bipinde, Zenker, 1710! 1856! 2200! Yaunde, Zenker, 247! Zenker & Staudt, 340!

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