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Hekistocarpa minutiflora

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Name

Identification
Hekistocarpa minutiflora Hook.f. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Hekistocarpa minutiflora
Common name
  • kálá kumú (KW; KW&T) (NIGERIA, IJO-IZON (Kolokuma)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for HEKISTOCARPA minutiflora Hook. f. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
HEKISTOCARPA minutiflora Hook. f. [family RUBIACEAE], Ic. Pl. t. 1151.
Information
4–5 ft. high. Stipules 1/4– 3/8 in. long, at length reflexed, ciliate with a few long hairs. Leaves elliptical or obovate, acuminate at both ends, shortly petiolate, with scattered hairs on both surfaces and on the margin; 3–6 by 1–2 in. Flowers 1/6 in. long, sessile on the secund spicate branches of dichotomous axillary inflorescences, which attain to about half the length of the leaves. Fruit 1/10– 1/8 in. long.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Old Calabar River, Mann!

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