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Identification
Guyonia intermedia Cogn. [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Guyonia ciliata Hook.f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Guyonia intermedia
  • Guyonia ciliata

Flora

Entry for GUYONIA ciliata Hook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1975) Author: G. E. WICKENS
Names
GUYONIA ciliata Hook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in F.T.A. 2: 443 (1871); Cogn. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 7: 337 (1891); Jacques-Félix in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 97: 225 (1950); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 246 (1954); Jacques-Félix in Ic. Pl. Afr. 3, No. 50 (1955); A. & R. Fernandes in Mem. Soc. Brot. 11: 7 (1956) & in C.F.A. 4: 124 (1970). Type: Sierra Leone, Afzelius (?BM, holo.)
Afzeliella ciliata (Hook. f.) Gilg [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in E.M. 2: 5 (1898); V.E. 3 (2): 744 (1921)
Guyonia intermedia Cogn. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in De Wild. & Th. Dur., Pl. Thonner.: 30, t. 16 (1900). Type: Zaire, Ngali, Thonner 21 (BR, holo.)
Afzeliella intermedia (Cogn.) Gilg [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Z.A.E.: 582 (1913)
Information
Slender annual herb; stem creeping with erect branches, rooting at the nodes, 4-angled, glabrous or appressed setose. Leaves decussate; lamina rhombic-ovate to broadly ovate, up to 3.2 cm. long and 2 cm. wide, apex subobtuse to acute, base shortly attenuate, membranous, crenulate, pinkish green beneath, sparsely setose above and on the nerves beneath; nerves 3–5, scarcely prominent beneath; petiole slender, up to 13 mm. long. Flowers 1–3, subtended by a caducous dentate-ciliate bract. Calyx-tube 3.5–4 mm. long, 3.5 mm. in diameter, sparsely pilose to glabrous; lobes linear-triangular, 5 mm. long, sparsely ciliate, persistent. Petals obovate, ± 8 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, delicate, pale pink. Stamens 5–5.5 mm. long; anthers 1–1.5 mm. long; connective ± 0.5–1 mm. long with 2 minute tubercles; filament 3–3.5 mm. long. Fruiting calyx 4–6 mm. in diameter, retaining the persistent lobes. Seeds 1.2–1.5 mm. long. Fig. 2.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4; T1 forest regions of W. Africa from Guinée to Cameroun, Zaire and Angola
Altitude range
1050–1500 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Bukoba District near Bukoba, Aug. 1931, Haarer 2145 !UGANDA Kigezi District Kirima, Feb. 1949, Purseglove 2708 !UGANDA Masaka District Bugala I., Towa Forest, July 1945, Purseglove 1753 ! & 18 June 1951, G. H. Wood X.30 !
Notes
The second species, G. tenella Naud., on which the genus is based, occurs in Guinée and differs in being entirely glabrous. G. ciliata may prove to be no more than a setose form of G. tenella.

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