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Hunteria zeylanica

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Name

Identification
Hunteria zeylanica Gardner ex Thwaites [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Hunteria corymbosa Roxb. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Hunteria roxburghiana
  • Hunteria roxburghii
  • Hunteria legocii
  • Cameraria zeylanica
  • Hunteria corymbosa
  • Hunteria africana
  • Apocynum nerium
  • Hunteria zeylanica

Flora

Entry for HUNTERIA zeylanica (Retz.) Gardn. ex Thwaites [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
HUNTERIA zeylanica (Retz.) Gardn. ex Thwaites [family APOCYNACEAE], (1860).
Information
Shrub or tree to 10 m or more tall; young branchlets glabrous. Leaves somewhat leathery; blade oblong to elliptic or slightly obovate, 5–22 x 1.3–4 cm, acute to acuminate at the apex. Calyx c. 1 mm long, glabrous. Corolla white or pale yellow, glabrous outside; tube 7–8 mm long, sparsely pubescent inside in upper half; lobes narrowly ovate. Anthers 0.75–1 mm long. Ovary with each carpel containing 2 ovules. Mericarps subglobose, 11–27 x 6–21 mm, 2-seeded, becoming yellow to orange. Seeds 1–1.5 mm long.

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