Isotype of Memecylon polyanthemosHook.f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Memecylon myrianthumGilg [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Stone R.D., 2006
Related name
Memecylon obanense
Memecylon polyanthemos
Memecylon calophyllum
Memecylon afzelii
Memecylon myrianthum
Common name
hesre (FRI) (GHANA, GBE-VHE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
sa (FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
Flora
Entry for MEMECYLON polyanthemos 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 polyanthemosHook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE]
Information
A shrub; branches trichotomous, slender. Leaves petioled, 2–4 in. by 1 1/2–2 in., thickly coriaceous, lurid greenish or brown, sublucid on both surfaces, elliptic, base acute, apex suddenly contracted to a long broad acute point, penninerved, nerves very indistinct or evanescent on both surfaces, lateral nearly horizontal. Flowers in numerous axillary solitary or fascicled corymbose many-flowered panicles 1/2–1 1/2 in. long and broad, peduncles and branches subumbellate compressed and angled, quite glabrous; bracteoles crowded at the base of the subumbellate slender pedicels, deciduous. Calyx 1–10th in. diameter, tube turbinate; limb large, obscurely 4-toothed, 8-winged inside, wings approaching in pairs. Petals broadly ovate, tips valvate. Filaments short. Ovules 8. Berry 1/3 in., broadly ovoid; flesh thin, testa rather membranous, cotyledons crumpled.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Afzelius! Bagroo river, Mann! fl. April.
