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Dorstenia walleri

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Identification
Dorstenia cuspidata Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name); Dorstenia walleri Hemsl. [family MORACEAE ] Verified by Keay, R. W. J., Dorstenia gourmaensis A.Chev. [family MORACEAE ]
Related name
  • Korania caulescens
  • Dorstenia unrecorded
  • Dorstenia crispa
  • Dorstenia caulescens
  • Dorstenia cuspidata
  • Dorstenia phillipsiae
  • Dorstenia gourmaensis
  • Dorstenia walleri
Common name
  • nablauwale (JMD) (GHANA, GRUSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for DORSTENIA Walleri Rendle Var. minor [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 Walleri Rendle Var. minor [family MORACEAE]
DORSTENIA unyikœ Engl. & Warb. [family MORACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 291; R. E. Fries, Arkiv. f. Bot. xiii., no. 1, 17, t. 1, fig. 4, and in Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhodes.-Kongo-Exped. 1911–12, i. 13 (under D. Walleri).
Information
Smaller slender-stemmed plants 4–6 in. high with elliptic to narrowly ovate leaves, generally about 2 in. long, and smaller inflorescences 2–5 lin. in diam.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Unyika, near Piseki, 4600 ft., Goetze, 1422.Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. near Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 495!Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. Kalambo, Fries, 1333.Congo North Central River Bamingui, Chevalier, 1991! Trena, on the River Gribingui, Chevalier, 1959!
Notes
I have not seen specimens of D. gourmœnsis, Chev., but except for the slightly smaller receptacle the description agrees with that of D. Walleri .

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