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Malouetia heudelotii

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Malouetia heudelotii de Candolle [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by DC., 1844
Related name
  • Landolphia heudelotii
  • Malouetia heudelotii
Common name
  • a-ponthi-a-ro-bath (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bσnje (def.-i) (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • yεte (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for MALOUETIA Heudelotii A. DC. [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
MALOUETIA Heudelotii A. DC. [family APOCYNACEAE], Prod. viii. 380. —Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 450. De Wild. Études Fl. Bas et Moyen Congo, i. 68.
MALOUETIA africana K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 187.
Information
Perfectly glabrous; branches terete, dark reddish-brown. Leaves oblong, acuminate, acute at the base, 3 1/2–5 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. broad, thin, papery; secondary nerves 7–9 on each side; petiole 2–3 lin. long. Cymes few-flowered, subsessile; bracts very small; pedicels slender, up to 4 lin. long. Calyx 1 lin. long; sepals ovate, subacute. Corolla white; tube 5–5 1/2 lin. long, with confluent tubercles at the mouth; lobes oblong, acuminate or cuspidate, 4 1/2–5 lin. long, puberulous at the base. Disc 5-lobed. Anthers 1 1/2 lin. long. Follicles 7–10 in. long. Seeds 1 1/2–1 2/3 in. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad, scantily pubescent at both ends, but chiefly at the upper subulate end.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot, 714! 890!French Guinea Upper Guinea Scarcies Valley; near Sasseni, Scott-Elliot, 4430! 4524! near Bayabaya, Scott-Elliot, 4782! near Wallia, Scott-Elliot, 4785!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Kukuna, by the River Scarcies, Scott-Elliot, 4242! 4626! Madina, Scott-Elliot, 5566!Congo Lower Guinea Environs of Léopoldville, Gillet.Congo South Central Djuma Valley, Gillet, 2784; Kwango District; Inzia, Gentil, 40; Wamba, Gentil, 108.
Notes
Malhouetia sp. De Wild. Apocyn. Laticif. Congo, 11. Very similar to M. Heudelotii but leaves up to 7 1/2 in. long and 3 in. broad; corolla-tube 7 lin. long; lobes 4–7 lin. long; anthers 2 lin. long; seeds 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, 2 lin. broad. It is said to have been found by Gillet and Gentil in the Kwango region and near Léopoldville and also to occur in the French Congo. I suppose it is the same plant which De Wildeman called M. Heudelotii in Études Fl. Bas et Moyen Congo, i. 68, although he does not refer there to the Malouetia sp. of his Apocyn. Laticif. Congo. If I am right, the Lower Congo plant can hardly be M. Heudelotii.

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