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Memecylon strychnoides

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Identification
Memecylon gilgianum Exell [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Memecylon strychnoides Gilg [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Warneckea jasminoides (Gilg) Jacq.-Fel. [family MELASTOMATACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Memecylon gilgianum
  • Spathandra blakeoides
  • Memecylon popelii
  • Warneckea jasminoides
  • Memecylon strychnoides
  • Memecylon membranifolium

Flora

Entry for Memecylon blakeoides G. Don [family MELASTOMATACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 1,
Names
Memecylon blakeoides G. Don [family MELASTOMATACEAE], Gen. Syst. 2: 655 (1832); Keay in Kew Bull. 1952: 163.
Memecylon spathandra Blume [family MELASTOMATACEAE], Mus. Bot. 1: 361 (1851); Gilg l.c38; F.W.T.A., ed1, 1: 215
Spathandra caerulea Guill. & Perr. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], (1833)
Memecylon caerulea (Guill. & Perr.) Hook. f [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in F.T.A2: 461 (1871), not of Jack (1820); ChevBot277
Memecylon strychnoides Bak. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Kew Bull1895: 105; F.W.T.A., ed1, 1: 215
Memecylon millenii Gilg [family MELASTOMATACEAE], l.c38 (1898).
Information
Tree ofswamp forest by rivers,with shrubby habit, to 70 ft. high; flowers with white petals and blue anthers; fruits black when ripe.
Habitat
swamp forest by rivers,
Range
Extends to Cabinda
Distribution
Sen. Perrottet; Heudelot!Fr. G. R. Lanfofome (Mar.)S. L. Don! Whitfield!T.Vogel 188! R. Bagroo (Apr.) Mann 827! Luseniya (fr. Dec.) Sc. Elliot 4093! Waterloo Lane-Poole 427!Lib. Monrovia (Apr.) Bequaert 178! Whyte! Kakatown Whyte! Totokwelli, Medina (Oct.) Linder 1305! Duport (Nov.) Linder 1477!G. C. Axim (fl. & fr. Nov.) Vigne 1453!S. Nig. Lagos (Oct., Nov.) Millen 168! Dalz. 1184! Okomu F.R. (fl. Mar., fr. May) Richards 3278! Ross 200! Sapoba (Aug., Oct.) A. F. Ross 206! Kennedy 1757!

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