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Heisteria parvifolia

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Identification
Heisteria parvifolia Not on sheet. [family OLACACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Phanerocalyx batesii
  • Phanerocaylx talbotiorum
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  • Casearia bipindensis
  • Heisteria zimmereri
  • Heisteria parvifolia
Common name
  • ε-titi (NWT; Michaud) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ŋdogbololi (auctt.) koli-galei (FCD) kpindi (MacDonald) yuŋgwi (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ‘balsa’ (Liberia, Cooper)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • balsa (C&R; Michaud (LIBERIA, KRU-BASA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • kεrεŋgu (NWT) weiweinpi yebago (Michaud) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for HEISTERIA parvifolia Smith [family OLACACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 345, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
HEISTERIA parvifolia Smith [family OLACACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 533.
Acrolobus Schænleinii Klotzsch [family OLACACEAE], in Schœnl. Nachl. 236–7. t. 3.
Acrolobus parvifolius Klotzsch [family OLACACEAE], in Schœnl. Nachl. 236–7. t. 3.
Information
Perfectly glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptical, acuminate, acumen usually rather obtuse, slightly rounded or cuneate at base, 3 1/2–5 in. long, 1 1/6–2 in. broad; petiole 1/4– 1/2 in. Flowers (not examined) shortly pedicellate, in axillary fascicles. Fruit-calyx 5-partite, about 1–1 1/2 in. in diam.; lobes ovate, spreading or ascending, rather acute, after the fall of the fruit with the sinuses reflexed.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Afzelius! Whitfield!Upper Guinea (? Fernando Po and Grand Bassa, T. Vogel!)Upper Guinea Coast of Guinea, Young!
Notes
Mann collected on the Kongui river an Olacinea which may probably belong to the same species. The leaves are from 5–7 in. long by 1 1/2–3 in. broad. Flowers in axillary fascicles shorter than the petiole, the pedicels equalling or exceeding the flower. Calyx shortly cupuliform, 5-toothed. Petals coherent in their lower half. Stamens 10; filaments opposite to the petals, which are shortly pilose above within, shorter than the alternating ones, adnate below. Anthers small, rotundate. Ovary depressed above with a short thick style, 3-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell.

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