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Hunteria congolana

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Holotype of Hunteria congolana Pichon [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Hunteria congolana Pichon [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Hunteria congolana Pichon [family APOCYNACEAE]
Paratype of Hunteria congolana Pichon [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Hunteria congolana Pichon ex Pichon [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Hunteria congolana Pichon [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Hunteria congolana Pichon [family APOCYNACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Hunteria congolana Pichon [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Omino E.A., 1993
Related name
  • Pleiocarpa tubicina
  • Hunteria congolana

Flora

Entry for HUNTERIA congolana Pichon [family APOCYNACEAE]
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, (2002) Author: E.A. OMINO
Names
HUNTERIA congolana Pichon [family APOCYNACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot. sér. 2 (27): 101, t. 1/9–13 (1953); K.T.S.L.: 480 (1994); Omino in Wageningen Agric. Univ. Pap. 96 (1): 96, t. 25 (1996). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), 10 km E of Yangambi, J. Louis 1083 (BR!, holo., K!, P, S, iso.)
Information
Shrub or tree 1.7–20 m high; latex white to yellow in all parts; trunk 5–30 cm in diameter, wood yellow and hard. Leaves petiolate; blade elliptic to oblong, 6.3–18.5 cm long, 1.5–5.9 cm wide, acute to obtuse at the base, apex acuminate with acumen10–18 mm long; petiole 8–18 mm long. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, 3–3.5 cm long, 7–18(–45)-flowered; peduncle 2–14 mm long; bracts up to 1.5 mm long, with colleters within; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Flowers with sepals with resin within, (narrowly) ovate, 0.8–1.5 mm long; corolla white or yellow, creamy pink in bud; tube 4.8–5.5 mm long; lobes narrowly ovate to oblong, 4–8 mm long, 1.5–2.8 mm wide, obtuse; stamens inserted at 3–4.7 mm from the base; pistil 3.4–4.8 mm long; ovary gradually narrowing into the style, ovules 5–6 in each carpel; style 0.8–2.1 mm long. Fruits yellow to orange, ellipsoid to subglobose, 20–26 mm long, 11–18 mm in diameter, 1–3-seeded. 
Range
DISTR. K 1
Altitude range
1700–2100 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Mt Kulal, Adamson 115! & N of Gatab, sin. coll. 178!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Notes
USES. None recorded. The main area of distribution is in the central Congo basin. The Kulal specimens have smaller leaves and longer corolla lobes than the Congo specimens.

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