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Memecylon bequaertii

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Name

Identification
Memecylon bequaertii De Wild. [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Warneckea bequaertii (De Wild.) Jacq.-Fel. [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Stone R.D., 2006
Related name
  • Warneckea bequaertii
  • Memecylon bequaertii

Flora

Entry for MEMECYLON bequaertii De Wild. [family MELASTOMATACEAE]
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, (1975) Author: G. E. WICKENS
Names
MEMECYLON bequaertii De Wild. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Rev. Zool. Afr. 9, Suppl. Bot.: 14 (1921) & Pl. Bequaert. 1: 388 (1922); A. & R. Fernandes in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér.2, 34: 78, 196 (1960). Type: Zaire, Nandefu, between Penghe and Irumu, Bequaert 2666 (BR, holo.)
Information
Tree 9–15 m. high; branchlets obscurely 4-winged. Leaf-lamina elliptic, 9–15.5(–19) cm. long, 3–7(–9) cm. wide; 8–9 pairs of transverse lateral nerves ± prominent beneath and forming loops with the 2 basal lateral nerves from about midway to the apex; petiole 2–3 mm. long. Inflorescence ± 12-flowered, axillary, on the older wood; peduncle (with rhachis) ± 20(–45) mm. long, forked; pedicels 4–5 mm. long. Calyx obconical, ± 2 mm. long, 1.2 mm. in diameter; lobes triangular-ovate, ± 1 mm. long. Petals obovate, 1.5–2 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, bluish-pink. Anthers 1 mm. long; filaments not developed. Fruit globose, 9–10 mm. in diameter.
Range
DISTR. U2
Altitude range
1500 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Kigezi District Kigezi, Butt K24 ! & Impenetrable Forest, Apr. 1948, Purseglove 2679 !
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Notes
Further collections of the species are required as well as information on whether the plant is truly cauliflorous.

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