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Motandra viridiflora

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Identification
Motandra viridiflora K.Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE ] Baissea viridiflora (K.Schum.) deKruif [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by vanDilst,F.J.H.,
Related name
  • Baissea viridiflora
  • Baissea ogowensis
  • Motandra viridiflora

Flora

Entry for Motandra viridiflora K. Schum. [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 viridiflora K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 319.
Information
A tall climbing shrub; branches very long, slender, terete, perfectly glabrous also when quite young, at length greenish-grey, smooth. Leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminate, acute at the base, 2–3 1/2 in. long, 4/5–1 1/3 in. broad, glabrous on both sides except in the minutely bearded nerve-axils; secondary nerves about 6 on each side, distinct below; petiole 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long. Flowering branchlets terminal and from the axils of the uppermost leaves, gathered in a panicle 2–4 in. long, very minutely hairy; pedicels up to 3/4 lin. long. Calyx scarcely 1/2 lin. long; sepals ovate, acute. Corolla greenish, 1 3/4 lin. long, glabrous without; lobes 1/2 lin. long.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; in forest near Nguelo, Scheffler, 28.
Notes
I suspect that this, like M. Erlangeri, is not a true Motandra, but a species of Oncinotis .

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