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Gouania longipetala

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Identification
Gouania longipetala Hemsl. [family RHAMNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gouania longipetala
Common name
  • bubuŋ (NWT) kubσ (NWT) kwekwe (NWT) mbεleagwe (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • fensawa (FCD) fenyamba (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • saa-wawa (Boboh) sawa (def. -i) (auctt.) sawa-wa (def. -i) (FCD) wai ( (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • kudεngεti (NWT) mporima (KM) (SIERRA LEONE, LIMBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • komabεbdoε̃ (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for GOUANIA longipetala Hemsl. [family RHAMNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 377, (1868) Author: (by Mr. W. B. Hemsley).
Names
GOUANIA longipetala Hemsl. [family RHAMNACEAE]
Information
A climbing shrub with terete glabrous branches. Leaves penninerved, ovate, acuminate acute, obtuse or slightly cordate at base, 2–3 in. long, entire towards the base crenate-dentate upwards, glabrous; petioles 1/2–1 in. long, glabrescent. Flowers in interrupted racemes terminating the lateral branches; rachis stout as well as the pedicels, clothed with a dense ferruginous tomentum. Calyx glabrous or with a few scattered hairs; lobes brown, triangular, keeled on the inside, incurved in æstivation. Petals (at least in the male flowers) double the length of the calyx-lobes, white, spathulate, with the margins involute enclosing the filaments; anthers projecting beyond their tips. Fruit glabrous; wings 4–6 lines broad.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Shupanga, Dr. Kirk! (in fruit).Fernando Po Upper Guinea Mann! (in flower)Upper Guinea river Kongui, Mann! (in flower).
Notes
The species as above characterized is confined to tropical Africa, but it is closely allied to G. leptostachys, DC., an Asiatic species, and G. domingensis, DC., and may eventually have to be united with one or both. It differs principally in its relatively much longer petals with the anthers projecting beyond their tips.

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