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Mareya acuminata

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Name

Identification
Mareya acuminata Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Necepsia afzelii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Leonard, J,
Related name
  • Necepsia afzelii
  • Mareya acuminata

Flora

Entry for MAREYA acuminata Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
MAREYA acuminata Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 103.
Information
Shrub or small tree; twigs glabrous. Leaves petioled, thin, obovate-lanceolate, abruptly and acutely acuminate, entire, narrowed from beyond the middle to the cuneate base, 5–7 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces, dark green; petiole glabrous, 1/2 in. long; stipules small, deciduous. Spikes numerous, slightly flexuous, rather longer than the leaves; rhachis angular, glabrous; bracts ovate, minute. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers throughout the spikes, solitary; styles quite free to the base. Capsule subglobose, 3-sulcate; cocci 3, 2 lin. wide, brown.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Libreville, Klaine, 2483!

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