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Metaporana densiflora

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Name

Identification
Porana densiflora Hallier,f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Metaporana densiflora (Hallier,f.) N.E.Br. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt,B.,
Related name
  • Bonamia poranoides
  • Porana densiflora
  • Metaporana densiflora

Flora

Entry for BONAMIA poranoïdes Hall.f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
BONAMIA poranoïdes Hall.f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5 : 1007 (1897). Type : East Africa, without locality, Fischer 284 (B, holo. †). Neotype : Tanganyika, Usambara Mts., Dunga, Holst 3205 (K, holo.!, BM, iso.!)
Porana densiflora Hall.f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in E.J. 18 : 93 (1893); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 85 (1905); Roberty in Candollea 14 : 26 (1952). Type : as B. poranoïdes
Metaporana densiflora (Hall. f.) N.E. Br. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in K.B. 1914 : 169 (1914); T.T.C.L. : 172 (1949)
Information
Woody climber with glabrous stems. Leaf-blade ovate, 2.8–8.5 cm. long, 1.6–5.2 cm. wide, obtuse to acute and mucronate at apex, entire or cordate at the base, glabrous; petiole 1–3 cm. long, sometimes minutely pubescent. Flowers in axillary congested panicles with peduncles 0.3–2 cm. long and in terminal panicles; rhachis of the inflorescence adpressed pubescent. Sepals orbicular, 1.5 mm. in diameter, pubescent. Corolla white, about 5 mm. long; lobes 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, pubescent outside; margins hyaline and ± reflexed. Capsule ovoid, slightly compressed, 5.5 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide, glabrous, brown or black. Seeds dark, orbicular, compressed, wrinkled and minutely reticulate in the dry state, 3 mm. in diameter. Fig. 9, p. 32.
Range
DISTR. U2, 3; K7; T3, 6
Altitude range
50–1170 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Bunyoro District Butiaba, 24 Dec. 1905, Bagshawe 843 !;UGANDA Busoga District Wandago Mutalla, 1 Nov. 1950, G. H. S. Wood 18! & Kagoma forest reserve 19 km. N. of Jinja, 6 Aug. 1952, G. H. S. Wood 321!KENYA Kilifi, 19 Sept. 1949, Jeffery 673 ! ;KENYA Kwale District Mwachi, 5 km. S. of Mazeras, 10 Sept. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4245 !TANGANYIKA Pangani District Msubugwe Forest, Sept. 1955, Semsei 2314!;TANGANYIKA Uzaramo District Kazimzumbwe, Aug. 1951 (fl.), Procter 6 ! & 31 July 1937 (fr.), Greenway 4975!
Distribution (external)
; eastern Congo Republic
Notes
Roberty (loc. cit.) overlooked the fact that the fruits of this species are now well known and also that both N. E. Brown and Hallier had realized it was wrongly placed in Porana. The epithet densiflora is unfortunately preoccupied in Bonamia by B. densiflora (Bak.) Hall. f.

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