Entry for HUGONIA Planchoni Hook. f. [family LINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 268, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
HUGONIA PlanchoniHook. f. [family LINACEAE], in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 526. —Fl. Nigrit. t. 27.
Information
Branches rusty- or tawny-pubescent. Leaves firm, rather coriaceous, oval-oblong or oblanceolate-oval, acute or acuminate, narrowed to the base, rather remotely serrulate, glabrous, excepting the puberulous midrib; lateral veins 1/4 to nearly 1/2 in. apart, connected by numerous transverse veinlets; 5–6 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad; petiole 1/4 in. or less. Stipules pinnatipartite with 2–3 subulate segments on each side, deciduous; bracts similar. Sepals ovate-lanceolate; margins involute above. Petals at least two to three times longer than the sepals, oblong-cuneate with a short, abrupt, narrow claw 1–1 1/2 lines long. Ovary glabrous or with few hairs at the top; ovules geminate. Drupes globose.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Afzelius! T. Vogel! etc.;Accra Upper Guinea T. Vogel!Upper Guinea Bagroo river, Mann!
