Memecylon barteriHook.f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Lijndenia barteri(Hook.f.) K.Bremer [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bremer K., 1982
Related name
Spathandra unrecorded
Memecylon barteri
Lijndenia barteri
Memecylon fosteri
Warneckea fosteri
Flora
Entry for MEMECYLON Barteri Hook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 439, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
MEMECYLON BarteriHook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE]
Information
A shrub 8 ft. high; branches greyish-white, about as thick as a crow-quill; branchlets terete. Leaves petioled, 2 1/2–3 1/2 in. by 1 1/4–1 1/2 in., coriaceous, elliptic, acuminate at both ends, most so at the apex, olive-brown when dry, almost lucid on both surfaces, nerves 3, slender, distinct; transverse nerves very obscure; petiole 1/4 in. Inflorescence perfectly glabrous, of numerous small axillary corymbose solitary or fascicled panicles 1/3 in. long and broad, sparingly subumbellately branched. Calyx subhemispheric, 2-bracteolate at the base, 1 1/4 in. in diameter, bracteoles small, suborbicular, concave; limb broadly 4-lobed, lobes rounded, not costate inside. Petals orbicular, tips imbricate. Ovules 2. Fruit not seen.
