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Funtumia elastica

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Funtumia elastica (P.Preuss) Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Funtumia elastica
Common name
  • mba (JMD; DRR) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Owerri)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • funtum (JMD) guni (CV; FRI) ofuruntum (FRI) puni (auctt.) (GHANA, GBE-VHE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • amanĕ dua = rubber tree (A.Chev.) o-funtum (A.Chev.) o-funtun poyudua (K&B) poyu dua = rubber tree (A.Chev.) (IVORY COAST, NZEMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • àbá-ọ́jị́ (JMD; DRR); = branch of an iroko tree; meaning not clear (KW) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Nsokpo)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • amale(u) (K&B; A&AA) pé (A. Chev.; K&B) pé-chi (A. Chev.; K&B) pri (auctt.) sue (K&B) sue amale (RS; Aub.) (IVORY COAST, AKYE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dido (GK) dirro (GK) (LIBERIA, KRU-GUERE (Krahn)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • plapodorosépopulu (A. Chev., ex K&B) (IVORY COAST, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • frumudu (B&D) (IVORY COAST, KYAMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • o-frundum (FRI) (GHANA, SEHWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kricko (B&D) (IVORY COAST, GUERE (Chiehn)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • clien (GK) (LIBERIA, DAN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • plapodorosé-populu (A. Chev., ex K&B) twi (A. Chev.) (IVORY COAST, NEYO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • potombo (FRI) (GHANA, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dinjongo (JMD) (CAMEROONS, KUNDU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • fruntum (BD&H) o-fruntum (Enti) ofuruntum (FRI) (GHANA, WASA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • àchàrà-mba (DRR) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Awka)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • fruntum (DF) funtum (anon; Armitage) (GHANA, AKAN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dinyσŋgч̀, èbòŋgo (Ithmann) èbòŋgo a ma nyч̀ŋч̀ (Ithmann) (CAMEROONS, DUALA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • potombo (auctt.) potomo (A&AA) (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bobo (def.-i) (JMD; S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bandapare (S&F) buŋkankoŋ (S&F) poraŋ (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, MANDING-MANINKA (Koranko)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • frummundu (FRI) fummundu (FRI) (GHANA, ANYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • okon-anungi (DRR) (NIGERIA, EJAGHAM (Keaka)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • mba (JMD; DRR) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Arochukwu)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • efurumundu (auctt.) fumundu (auctt.) (IVORY COAST, ANYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • si g(u)illi (JMD) (LIBERIA, MANO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • an-wathia (auctt.) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • trui (K&B) uruba su (A.Chev.; K&B) (IVORY COAST, KRU-BETE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kni (B&D) (IVORY COAST, GAGU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ofruntum, ofuruntum (Enti) (GHANA, AKAN-AKUAPEM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • watia (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ‘cigbàn’te (Banfield; KO&S) (NIGERIA, NUPE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • fotobo (auctt.) (IVORY COAST, KWENI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • uluatu (RS) wolobatu, wolowatu (A&AA) (IVORY COAST, GUERE (Wobe)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • diô (RS) gluatu (K&B) ulua (RS) ulua (RS) urobo (RS) (IVORY COAST, GUERE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • Cavally) bébéti (A. Chev.; K&B) (IVORY COAST, ‘KRU’ (Lower), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • mba (KO&S) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kpasụ́karaghá (Tiemo) kpàsụ́kàràgha (KW) (NIGERIA, IJO-IZON (Egbema)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dorosé populu (A. Chev.) (IVORY COAST, GREBO (Plapo)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bobo (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • o-fruntum (auctt.) funtum (CJT) o-furuntum (FRI) ofruntum, ofuruntum (Enti) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • efunmuntum (CJT) efunumundum (FRI) fulmuntu (CJT) fulmuntu (CJT) (GHANA, NZEMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ạ̀mạ́mạ́ạ́m k’ákẹ̀ (JMD; DRR) (NIGERIA, ABUA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • efunmuntum (CJT) efunumundum (FRI) (GHANA, ANYI-AOWIN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nda (DRR) (NIGERIA, MUNGAKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • míní-emā (JMD; DRR) (NIGERIA, EKPYE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • aman = rubber (CJT) o-fruntum (auctt.) fruntum (auctt.) o-furuntum (FRI) (GHANA, ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • amané-dua = rubber tree (A. Chev.; K&B) o-funtum, poyu dua = rubber tree (A. Chev.) (IVORY COAST, AKAN-FANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • o-fruntum (auctt.) (GHANA, FANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nkwame (JMD; KO&S) (NIGERIA, BOKYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • têtu (RS) (IVORY COAST, ‘PATOKLA’), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • árábà-nékhùi (Amayo) áyọ̀n = rubber, latex (auctt.) básábásá (JMD) (NIGERIA, EDO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • abakwa (JMD; DDR) (NIGERIA, ENGENNI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • tendo (S&F) waŋgolo (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • fulmuntu (GHANA, NZIMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ebuk-etikpa (DRR) okpo-njok (DRR) (NIGERIA, EJAGHAM-ETUNG), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • West African rubber tree; Lagos silk rubber tree; bush rubber (Ghana, Taylor); ‘female’ gboi-gboi (Sierra Leone, from Mendi; Smythe, K); ‘female’ funtum (Ghana, from Akan); ‘female’ ire (Nigeria from Yoruba)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • manjongo (JMD) (CAMEROONS, KPE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ire (auctt.) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for FUNTUMIA elastica Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 24, (1904) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
FUNTUMIA elastica Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1900, 2. —Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 236; Stapf in Hook. Ic. Pl. tt. 2694–95; De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Colon. x. 74–76. De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Colon. xii. (1903), 193 et seq. and Not. Apocyn. Laticif. Congo, 78, 91; Ceuleneer in Bull. Soc. Étude. Colon. xi. (1904), 6 et seq. Kickxia elastica, Cheval. in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. vii. (1901), 426.
Kickxia elastica Preuss [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, ii. 353–360, t. i.; Warburg, Kautschukpfl. 112, 153 and Plant. à Caoutch. 205; Vilb. in Warb. Plant. à Caoutch. 204, fig. 15, 206, 207; Schlechter in Tropenpfl. iv. 109–120; De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Colon. vii. 633, 634, 743–747.
Kickxia africana Stapf [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 244, with plate (the fruit only); K. Schum. in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 217–221 with plate (the fruit only); Warb. in Tropenfl. i. 99–103 with plate (the fruit only); Lecomte in Rev. Cult. Colon. i. 12–19, 41–47, fig. 2 (the fruit only); Jumelle, Les Plant. à Caoutchouc, 68–73, fig. 10 (fruit only); Thonner in De Wild. & Durand, Pl. Thonner. Congol. xii.; Henriques, Der Kautschuk, 18, t. iii.; Warb. Kautschukpfl. 110–112 and Plant. à Caoutch. 200–205 partly; not of Benth.
Information
A tree, up to 100 ft. high; trunk erect, cylindric; bark pale, spotted; branchlets terete, blackish when dry. Leaves oblong or lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, attenuate at the base, 5–9 in. long, 1 1/4–2 1/2 in. broad, undulate, quite glabrous, foveolate in the leaf axils; secondary nerves 7–11 on each side, oblique; veins inconspicuous; petiole 2–5 lin. long. Cymes shortly peduncled, many-flowered, dense, glabrous; peduncle up to 3 lin. long; bracts small, broad-ovate, obtuse or subacute; pedicels 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long. Calyx 2–2 1/4 lin. long; sepals very broad, ovate or rotundate; intracalycular glands usually 2 with each sepal. Corolla white or yellowish, conical in bud, up to 6 lin. long; tube constricted above the base, 3 1/2–4 lin. long, glabrous without; lobes oblong, obtuse, 2 1/2–3 lin. long. Stamens inserted below the middle of the corolla-tube. Disc 5-partite; segments crenate, slightly exceeding the ovary. Follicles oblong-clavate when closed, obtuse or rotundate at the apex, woody, obscurely keeled along the sides, 6 in. long. Seeds 6–9 lin. long; awn 1 1/2–2 3/4 in. long, naked to the middle, hairs up to 2 1/2 lin. long.
Distribution
Congo South Central Ubangi District; Libenge, on the River Lopore, Mardulier! North of the Congo at Ngali, Thonner, 13! and without precise locality, Laurent, 3036! basin of the Upper Ituri, Arnold!Gold Coast Upper Guinea Mampong Hills, Johnson, 255! Sehwhi (Sefwhi) and Wam Districts, Armitage!Ashanti Upper Guinea Assin-Yan-Kumassi, Cummins, 217!Lagos Upper Guinea Jebu District, Millen, 178! Ibadan, Olubi! forests between Ishagamo and Ibadan, Schlechter, 12319! and without precise locality, Punch! Denton!Nigeria Upper Guinea Old Calabar, Holland, 162! Lloyd! Abarogba, on the Cross River, Holland, 158! 159! 161! between Insofan and Obeyon, Holland, 243!Cameroons Upper Guinea right bank of the Mungo River, between Malende and Nyoke, and between Nyoke and Moyoka, Preuss, 1381! forests on the Upper Mungo River as far as the Bakossi Mountains, Schlechter; plentiful in the basin of the Ngoko (Goko), and Dscha (Jah) Rivers, Schlechter, 12746!
Notes
This is one of the most important rubber trees of Africa, concerning which much information can be found in Schlechter's Westafr. Kautschuk-Expedition. Some of the fruits collected by Holland at Abarogba are remarkably small. Considering the difficulty of distinguishing F. elastica from F. africana and F. latifolia in the absence of flowers or fruits it may be useful to point out that the presence of minute pits (acarodomitia) in the nerve axils on the underside of the leaves of F. elastica and their absence in the other species is a convenient and, as it seems, reliable character. Mr. J. H. Holland, who first called my attention to it, found it very useful in the field.

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