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Cubeba borbonense

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Name

Identification
Piper borbonense C.DC. [family PIPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Friedmann, Cubeba borbonense Miq. [family PIPERACEAE ] Piper sylvestre Lour. [family PIPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Piper borbonense
  • Piper sylvestre
  • Cubeba borbonense

Flora

Entry for PIPER borbonense C. DC. [family PIPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 487, (1912) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
PIPER borbonense C. DC. [family PIPERACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 339;—Engl. Jahrb. xix. 224.
Cubeba costulata Miq. [family ], Syst. Piper. 299.
Cubeba borbonense Miq. [family ], l.c. 301.
Information
a parasite on trees; branches woody, glabrous; leaves oblong-ovate, obtusely acuminate, unequally cordate or cuneate at the base, 2 1/2 in. long, 1 1/4 in. wide, penninerved, glabrous; petiole 4 lin. long, slightly hairy beneath; peduncle longer than the petiole, glabrous; bracts subrotundate, pubescent beneath and on the margin; stamens 3; exserted; female spike dense - flowered; rhachis slightly hairy; stigmas 3; berry ovoid, shorter than its pedicel. null
Range
Also in the Mascarene Islands.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Verreaux, Gueinzius.

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