Isotype of Ehretia tetrandraGurke [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Premna senensisKlotzsch [family VERBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt B., 1988
Related name
Premna senensis
Ehretia tetrandra
Flora
Entry for EHRETIA tetrandra Gürke [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
EHRETIA tetrandraGürke [family BORAGINACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 311, 461.
Information
A shrub, about 7 ft. high. Leaves broadly ovate, acuminate, cordate at the base, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, entire or irregularly toothed, membranous, pubescent on both surfaces; petiole 4–6 lin. long. Cymes lateral, few-flowered; peduncle short, covered (as well as the pedicels) with short brown hairs. Calyx campanulate, finely hairy outside, 1 lin. long; teeth 4, rotundate, slightly longer than the tube. Corolla yellow; tube 1 3/4 lin. long, tubular-campanulate, densely hairy at the throat; lobes 4, elliptic, obtuse, 1 1/2 lin. long. Stamens 4; filaments 3/4 lin. long; anthers shortly ovate. Ovary globose, papillate; style 2 1/2 lin. long, bifid only at the apex.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usagara; beneath overhanging rocks by the Ruaha River, 2000–2500 ft., Goetze, 471!
