Isotype of Motandra pyramidalisStapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] Motandra guineensis(Thonn.) A.DC. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Motandra pyramidalis
Motandra guineensis
Flora
Entry for MOTANDRA pyramidalis Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 24, (1904) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
MOTANDRA pyramidalisStapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
MOTANDRA guineensisHiern [family APOCYNACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 672, not of A. DC.
Information
A robust shrub, climbing far and high; branchlets fulvo-tomentose. Leaves oblong, acuminate, obtuse at the base, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 in. broad when young, deep green, papery, finely tomentose when quite young, soon glabrescent, at length almost glabrous except the midrib and secondary nerves which retain more or less of the delicate rusty tomentum, sometimes with minute patches of hairs in the nerve-axils, glossy above; secondary nerves 7–8 on each side; petiole rusty-velvety, up to 3 1/2 lin. long. Panicle more or less pyramidal, up to 5 in. long and to more than 3 in. broad, rather lax, fulvo-tomentose all over; peduncle very short or up to 1 in. long; bracts subulate, very small or suppressed; pedicels very short or the terminal up to 2 lin. long. Calyx 1 lin. long, fulvo-tomentose. Corolla white; tube minutely puberulous outside except at the base, 2 lin. long; lobes up to 2 1/2 lin. long. Follicles lanceolate, acuminate with the acumen incurved, densely tomentose, about 6 lin. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Golungo Alto; towards Ambaca and in the forests of the highest ridges of Alto Queta, Welwitsch, 5964! and fruit 1118!
