Entry for JASMINUM longipes Baker [family OLEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 1, (1904) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
JASMINUM longipesBaker [family OLEACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 94. —Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 655.
Information
A wide climbing shrub. Branchlets very slender, pubescent. Leaves opposite or lower alternate, oblong, very acute, moderately firm, 1 1/2–3 in. long, slightly pubescent beneath; petiole very hairy, 1/6– 1/3 in. long. Cymes few-flowered, terminal and axillary; pedicels very slender, sometimes 1 in. long. Calyx 1/3 in. long; teeth linear, shorter than the subcylindrical tube. Corolla-tube 3/4 in. long; lobes 9–10, lanceolate, 1/2 in. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Golungo Alto; in bushy places on the outskirts of the forests of Alto Queta, about Sange, and at the River Cate in Sobato de Bumba, Welwitsch, 925!