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Landolphia nitida

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Landolphia nitidula J.G.M.Pers. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Holotype of Landolphia nitida Lebrun & Taton [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Landolphia nitida Lebrun & Taton [family APOCYNACEAE]
Filed as Landolphia nitidula J.G.M.Pers. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Landolphia nitidula J.G.M.Pers. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Landolphia nitidula J.G.M.Pers. [family APOCYNACEAE]
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Identification
Isotype of Landolphia nitida Lebrun & Taton [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Ancylobothrys amoena Hua [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg A.J.M., 1993
Related name
  • Landolphia nitida
  • Ancylobothrys amoena

Flora

Entry for ANCYLOBOTRYS amoena Hua [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
ANCYLOBOTRYS amoena Hua [family APOCYNACEAE], in Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris 5: 186 (1899); Pichon in Mém. I.F.A.N. 35: 274, t 17/1–2 (1953); Huber in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 60 (1963); Kupicha in F.Z. 7 (2): 426 (1985); Vonk et al. in Wageningen Agric. Univ. Pap. 94 (3): 5, t. 1 (1994). Type: Guinea, Kankan, Upper Niger R. near Kouroussa, Paroisse 24 (P, holo., K, iso.)
Landolphia scandens Hallier f. var. ferruginea [family APOCYNACEAE], in Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. 170, Beih. (3): 80 (1900). Type: Tanzania, Lake Malawi, Kanda Peninsula, Goetze 884 (K, lecto, BR, E, isolect., chosen by Vonk et al.)
Landolphia scandens Hallier f. var. rigida [family APOCYNACEAE], in Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. 170, Beih. (3): 81 (1900). Lectotype: Tanzania, Bukoba District, Karagwe, Scott Elliot 8167 (K, lecto., chosen by Vonk et al.)
Landolphia scandens Hallier f. var. schweinfurthiana [family APOCYNACEAE], in Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. 170, Beih. (3): 81 (1900). Lectotype: Sudan, Djurland, Zeriba Agat on Wau R., Schweinfurth 1685 (K, lecto., P, iso., chosen by Vonk et al.)
Landolphia amoena (Hua) Hua & A. Chev. [family APOCYNACEAE], in J. Bot. (Morot) 15: 8 (1901)
Landolphia ferruginea (Hallier f.) Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in F.T.A. 4, 1: 46 (1902)
Landolphia petersiana (Hallier f.) Stapf var. schweinfurthiana [family APOCYNACEAE], in F.T.A. 4, 1: 48 (1902); T.T.C.L.: 51 (1949)
Pacouria petersiana (Hallier f.) S. Moore var. schweinfurthiana [family APOCYNACEAE], in J.L.S. 37: 180 (1905)
Pacouria amoena (Hua) Pichon [family APOCYNACEAE], in Mém. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., Paris sér. 2 (24): 144 (1948)
Landolphia nitida Lebrun & Taton [family APOCYNACEAE], Expl. Parc Nat. Kagera: 105 (1948). Type: Rwanda, Ryabega [Ruabiega], Lebrun 9820 (BR, holo., K, P, iso.)
Information
Scrambling shrub or liana up to 10 m high; branchlets densely brown-pubescent to almost tomentose. Leaves petiolate; blade elliptic or ovate, rarely oblong, 6.7–12 cm long, 2.8–7 cm wide, apex acuminate with acumen up to 10 mm long, cuneate at the base or decurrent into the petiole, glabrous to minutely pubescent on both sides, with 7–14 pairs of conspicuous straight to slightly curved secondary veins, forming an angle of 45–70° with the midrib; petiole densely pubescent, 5–13 mm long. Inflorescence 10–38 cm long, with 5–11 cymes, each with about 25 flowers, densely pubescent in all parts; peduncle 4–18 cm long; bracts sepal-like, 1.7–2 mm long; pedicels 1 mm long. Flowers with sepals triangular to ovate, 2.5–5 mm long, ciliate; corolla white or pinkish, especially the tube; tube 11–18 mm long; lobes narrowly elliptic, rarely oblong, 8.5–21 mm long, obtuse at the apex; stamens inserted at 2.7–3.9 mm from the base; pistil 3.5–4.5 mm long; ovary subglobose, ovules 40–50; style 1.5–2.1 mm long, glabrous. Fruit yellow to red, globose or slightly pear-shaped, 1.5–2 cm in diameter, 1–4 seeded; seeds 7–10 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 1; T 1, 4, 5, 7, 8 W Africa from Guinea and Mali to Chad and from Sudan to Zambia
Altitude range
750–1650 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mwanza District Rubya Forest Reserve, 2 Feb. 1960, Carmichael 745!;TANZANIA Mpanda District Mahali Mts, 18 Apr. 1978, Uehara 535;TANZANIA Bagamoyo District Bana Forest Reserve, 5 Aug. 1968, Shabani 108!UGANDA W Nile District Koboko, Eggeling 1838UGANDA sine loc., Bagshawe 205
Notes
USES. Fruit edible

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