Glossocalyx brevipesBenth. [family MONIMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Van Meer, 1971
Related name
Glossocalyx staudtii
Glossocalyx brevipes
Glossocalyx longicuspis
Flora
Entry for GLOSSOCALYX brevipes Benth. [family MONIMIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 167, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
GLOSSOCALYX brevipesBenth. [family MONIMIACEAE], in Hook. Ic. Pl. xiv. 2, t. 1302. —Perkins & Gilg in Engl. Pflanzenr. Monim. 116.
Information
A shrub, 10 ft. high. Young branches with fascicles of short stiff hairs. Leaves oblong, long-acuminate, 8 in. long, 2 1/2 in. wide, obliquely cordate at the base, quite entire, glabrous above, hairy beneath especially on the nerves; petiole 1 lin. long. Flowers in axillary fascicles; pedicels villous, 2 lin. long. Perianth 1 1/2 lin. in diam., oblique, green, pubescent outside; lip about 2 in. long, 2 lin. wide at the base, triangular. Carpels about 5, fusiform, hairy.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon River, Mann, 722! 2196
