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Kickxia africana

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Identification
Kickxia africana Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Funtumia africana (Benth.) Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by F.A. Pax, 1899
Related name
  • Malouetia unrecorded
  • Asclepiadea unrecorded
  • Kickxia elastica
  • Funtumia africana
  • Kickxia africana
  • Funtumia elastica

Flora

Entry for FUNTUMIA africana Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
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 24, (1904) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
FUNTUMIA africana Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1900, 2. —Stapf in Hook. Ic. Pl. tt. 2696–2697; Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 236; De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Colon. x. (1902), 74.
Kickxia africana Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1276; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 141; Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 90, and in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 244, with plate (excl. the fruit); K. Schum. in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 217–221 with figures (excl. the fruit); Warb. in Tropenpfl. i. 99–103 with figures (excl. the fruit); Lecomte in Rev. Cult. Colon. i. 12–19, 41–47, figs. 1 and 2; Preuss in Tropenpfl. iii. 65–71; Jumelle, Les Plant. à Caoutch. 68–73, fig. 10 (excl. the fruit); Preuss in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, ii. 353–360, t. 2; De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Colon. vii. 633, 634 and 747; Schlechter in Tropenpfl. iv. 326–330, and 41, 158, 160, 194, 202, 206, 235, 236, 238 (with fig.), 307; Vilb. in Warb. Plant. à Caoutch. 201, fig. 14. Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. viii. (1902), 67.
Kickxia africana Pierre ex Stapf var. Klainii [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Ic. Pl. tt. 2696–2697.
Kickxia africana Pierre ex Stapf var. iners [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Ic. Pl. tt. 2696–2697.
Kickxia Zenkeri K. Schum. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iii. 81.
Kickxia Gilletii De Wild. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Rev. Cult. Colon. vii. 744.
Information
A tree 15–80 ft. high; trunk cylindric; bark grey, smooth; branchlets terete or compressed below the nodes, more or less black when dry. Leaves oblong, rarely ovate-oblong, shortly and abruptly acuminate, attenuated or rounded at the base, 5–9 in. long, 1 1/2–3 1/2 in. broad; margins undulate, quite glabrous above, usually pubescent and always efoveolate in the leaf-axils; secondary nerves 9–10 (rarely 11) on each side, oblique; veins obscure; petiole 2–4 lin. long. Cymes shortly peduncled, many-flowered, dense, glabrous; peduncle 3 lin. long; bracts small, ovate, acute or subacute; pedicels up to 2 lin. long. Calyx 1 3/4 lin. long; sepals broad-ovate or elliptic, each with several glands at the base. Corolla yellowish, subcylindric and 7–9 lin. long in bud; tube constricted just below the middle, 3–4 lin. long, glabrous; lobes linear, 5–6 lin. long. Disc 5-lobed or 5-partite, shorter than the ovary. Follicles spindle-shaped, acutely acuminate, semiterete, sides slightly keeled. Seeds 6–8 lin. long; awn 1 1/4–1 3/4 in. long, naked at the base, hairs 2 1/2 lin. long.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Libreville, Klaine, 662!Congo Lower Guinea Kisantu, Gillet!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea near Kukuna, on the Scarcies River, Scott-Elliot, 4506! Bagru River, Mann, 817! and without precise locality, Haydon!Liberia Upper Guinea Sinou basin, Whyte! Sim, 4!Dahomey Upper Guinea Aja Ouere, Le Testu.Ivory Coast Upper Guinea Daban, Jolly, 174! 1691!Gold Coast Upper Guinea Sehwhi (Sefwhi) and Wam District, Armitage! Koforidua, Johnson, 434! East Akim, Johnson, 692!Togo Upper Guinea in forest on Amedjove Mountain, Schlechter, 12979 (ex Schumann); very common in the forests of the Agome Mountains, and in the Boem country, ex Schlechter.Nigeria Upper Guinea Bonny, Kalbreyer, 82! Opobo, Holland, 157! Adiabo, Holland, 294! Cross River, at Itu, Holland, 5! and at Ekure, Holland, 160!Cameroons Upper Guinea forest near Victoria, Preuss, 1382! Bipinde, Zenker, 2280! 2280A! Upper basin of the Mungo River, ex Schlechter.Fernando Po Upper Guinea Mann!
Notes
The rubber obtained from this species is sticky like birdlime, and therefore worthless.

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