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Gardenia crinita

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Name

Identification
Heinsia benguellensis Benth. & Hook.f. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Gardenia crinita Afzel. [family RUBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Heinsia jasminiflora
  • Gardenia crinita
  • Heinsia benguellensis

Flora

Entry for HEINSIA crinita (Afzel.) G. Taylor [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
HEINSIA crinita (Afzel.) G. Taylor [family RUBIACEAE], (1944);
Gardenia crinita Afzel. [family RUBIACEAE], (1829). [type as above]
Information
Shrub or small tree up to 4.5 m or more tall; stems glabrous to hairy. Leaf-blades narrowly to broadly elliptic or lanceolate, ± acuminate at the apex, glabrous or almost so above, sparsely to densely bristly pubescent on the venation beneath; stipules with 2 short teeth, soon falling. Flowers fragrant, solitary or in lax terminal cymes; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Calyx appressed hairy; lobes 5–6. Corolla white, the tube greenish outside; tube 15–30 mm long; lobes mostly 5, 18–28 x 11–15 mm, shortly apiculate at the apex. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid to subglobose, shortly hairy. Seeds flat, c. 1.3 mm long, almost black, pitted.

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