Dorstenia unyikaeEngl. [family MORACEAE ] Verified by Hijman, M., Dorstenia cuspidataHochst. [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
Dorstenia fiherenensis
Dorstenia humblotiana
Kosaria caulescens
Dorstenia debilis
Dorstenia quarrei
Dorstenia unyikae
Dorstenia cuspidata
Dorstenia gourmaensis
Dorstenia walleri
Flora
Entry for DORSTENIA cuspidata Hochst. [family MORACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 2, page 17, (1916) Author: (By J. HUTCHINSON AND A. B. Rendle)
Names
DORSTENIA cuspidataHochst. [family MORACEAE], in Flora, 1844, 103 (name only); A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 272. —Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 275; Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 21, t. vii. fig. B.
Information
Rhizome with thick tubercle-like joints from which the aerial stems spring. Stems herbaceous, erect, 4–12 in. high, single, rarely two together, at the ends of the rhizome-branches, slender, simple or little branched, puberulous as are the petiole and inflorescence. Leaves varying in shape, obovate and obtuse or elliptic and acute, sometimes rhomboid, base acute, passing into the longer or shorter petiole, margin repand or shortly broadly and obtusely dentate, 2–2 3/4 in. long, 3/4–1 3/4 in. wide, with a few scattered adpressed hairs on each surface; lateral nerves 4–5 on each side, curving upwards, shortly hairy like the midrib; petiole slender, 5–7 lin. long. Inflorescences solitary; peduncle equal to the petiole; lower receptacles narrowly elliptic, 5 lin. long and 1 1/2 lin. broad with a bract-arm at each end, the upper star-shaped 7 lin. in diam., with 3–5 rays passing into linear bract arms 3 1/2–7 lin. long and 1/2 lin. broad; disc and arms shortly hairy as in D. caulescens. Flowers and fruit as in D. caulescens .
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land near Jelajeranne in the valley of the Tacazze River, Schimper, 1727!
