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Hymenocardia heudelotii

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Identification
Isotype of Hymenocardia guineensis Beille [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Hymenocardia heudelotii Planch. ex Mull.Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leonard J., 1962
Related name
  • Hymenocardia heudelotii
  • Hymenocardia guineensis
  • Hymenocardia lyrata
  • Hymenocardia chevalieri
  • Hymenocardia
Common name
  • gondé (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, DAN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kolomaniŋbεlε̃ (FCD) sukorogbele (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • koféta karo (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • baramba-na (NWT) fσtσ-na (?) (FCD) kude-barambara (FCD) kude-barambara-na (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, YALUNKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ménãgol (JB) (SENEGAL, KONYAGI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • fagbanjoi (FCD; S&F) fagbanjui (FCD; S&F) nja-fagbanjo (FCD) nja-fagbanjui (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ka-gbalkẻntha (S&F) am-balkunta (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for HYMENOCARDIA Heudelotii Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
HYMENOCARDIA Heudelotii Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora, 1864, 518. —Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 477; Pax in De Wild. Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, ii. 269.
HYMENOCARDIA guineensis Beille [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. Mém. viii. 63.
Information
A shrub or small tree; branchlets whitish-pubescent, at length glabrous. Smaller leaves elliptic, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad, older leaves broadly ovate or rotundate-ovate, obtuse, cordate at the base, 2–3 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2–3 in. broad, firmly membranous or papery, midrib and lateral nerves pubescent beneath, blade otherwise glabrous and beset with golden-coloured glands on the lower surface; lateral nerves 5–6 on each side, distinct on both surfaces and slightly prominent on the lower; petiole 1/4– 3/4 in. long, densely pubescent; stipules lanceolate, soon falling, about 2 1/2 lin. long. Male spikes 1–2 in. long; axis minutely puberulous; bracts broadly ovate, coriaceous, almost glabrous. Calyx 5-lobed to about the middle, glandular and pubescent; lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliolate. Stamens 5, joined at the base of the rudimentary ovary; anthers and rudimentary ovary as in H. acida. Young female flowers not seen. Fruits depressed-cordate, with the axis slightly projecting at the apex from the centre of the obscure sinus, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. broad, very flat, distinctly reticulate, glabrous.
Distribution
Congo South Central Ubangi; Modgaka, Thollon, 43! Eala, Laurent, 1972; Pynaert, 344; near Yumbi, Laurent, 427.Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot, 838!French Guinea Upper Guinea Fouta Jallon, between the Konkouri River and Timbo, Chevalier, 12458! between Ditinn and Timbo, Chevalier, 12636!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea near Mofari, Scott-Elliot, 4431! near Musaia, Scott-Elliot, 5104! near rivers, Erimakuna, Scott-Elliot, 5257! Madina, Limba, Scott-Elliot, 5899!Nigeria Upper Guinea Nupe, Barter, 1150! at the confluence of the Niger and the Benue, Barter, 383!Nigeria Upper Guinea Idda, Barter, 327!

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