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Memecylon cyanocarpum

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Identification
Memecylon cyanocarpum Gilg [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Memecylon flavovirens Baker [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Memecylon flavovirens
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Flora

Entry for MEMECYLON flavovirens Bak. [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 flavovirens Bak. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in K.B. 1897: 268 (1897); Gilg in E.M. 2: 44 (1898); V.E. 3 (2): 769 (1921); T.T.C.L.: 311 (1949); A. & R. Fernandes in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér.2, 34: 201 (1960); F.F.N.R.: 310 (1962); A. & R. Fernandes in C.F.A. 4: 119 (1970). Type: Malawi, Whyte (K, holo.!)
MEMECYLON cyanocarpum Gilg [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in E.J. 30: 366 (1901); V.E. 3 (2): 769 (1921); T.T.C.L.: 311 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Iringa District, Mgololo, Goetze 763 (B, holo.†)
Information
Shrub or small tree up to 6 m. high. Leaf-lamina narrowly elliptic to obovate, 2.5–8 cm. long, 1.5–5.5 cm. wide, apex rounded or emarginate, base cuneate, yellowish green; petiole 0.5–2 mm. long. Inflorescences axillary few-flowered subsessile or shortly pedunculate racemose cymes; peduncles mostly 0–3(–6) mm. long, some sometimes longer; rhachis 1–9 mm. long; pedicels ± 2 mm. long. Calyx-tube obconical-campanulate, 2 mm. long, 2 mm. in diameter; lobes shallowly deltoid. Petals broadly ovate, 2 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, white. Anthers ± 1 mm. long; filaments 2.5 mm. long. Fruit globose, ± 15 mm. in diameter, black.
Range
DISTR. T7, 8
Altitude range
990–1500 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Iringa District Malangali, 18 Jan. 1941, Lindeman 1001 !TANZANIA Songea, 8 Nov. 1956, Semsei 2600 !TANZANIA Tunduru, 8 Nov. 1950, Tanner 220 !
Distribution (external)
Malawi
Zambia
Angola

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