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Hymenodictyon biafranum

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Name

Identification
Hymenodictyon biafranum Hiern [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Keay,R.W.J., Isotype of Hymenodictyon reflexum Hoyle [family RUBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Hymenodictyon reflexum
  • Hymenodictyon oreophyton
  • Hymenodictyon biafranum
  • Hymenodictyon bracteatum
  • Kurria floribunda
Common name
  • ogbulefi (DRR; JMD) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Umuakpo)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • obadan nekwi (JMD) (NIGERIA, EDO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Hymenodictyon biafranum Hiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Names
Hymenodictyon biafranum Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], in F.T.A. 3: 42 (1877).
Hymenodictyon bracteatum K. Schum. [family RUBIACEAE], in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 23: 424 (1896), not of F.W.T.A., ed. 1, 2: 70.
Hymenodictyon epidendron Mildbr. ex Hutch. & Dalz. [family RUBIACEAE], F.W.T.A., ed. 1, 2: 70 (1931).
Hymenodictyon oreophyton Hoyle [family RUBIACEAE], in J. Bot. 75: 168 (1937).
Hymenodictyon reflexum Hoyle [family RUBIACEAE], l.c. 169 (1937).
Information
A shrub or tree to 30 ft. or more high, deciduous; flowers pale purple, in erect racemes, subtended by white leaf-like bracts which turn red with age; in open places, very abundant on the 1922 lava flow of Cameroon Mt., sometimes epiphytic.
Habitat
; in open places, very abundant on the 1922 lava flow of Cameroon Mt., sometimes epiphytic.
Distribution
S. Nig.: Oban Talbot 213! 256![Br.] Cam.: Cam. Mt., 4,500 ft. (fr. Feb.) Mann 1194! Litoka, Cam. Mt., 4,500 ft., bordering 1922 crater (Apr.) Maitland 1074! Ebang, Cam. Mt., 5,000 ft. (May) Johnstone 320/32! Buea, 3,000 ft. (fr. Jan.) Maitland 201! Mopanya (Apr.) Kalbreyer 183! Isobi to Bibundi, 1922 lava flow, near sea level (fl. June, fr. Jan.) Dundas FHI 8466! Keay FHI 28652! Rosevear Cam. 68/37!F. Po: N. side of St. Isabel舗s Peak Mildbr. 6431. Moka (fr. Sept.) Wrigley 581!
Distribution (external)
Cameroun
Principe

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