Isotype of Myrianthus elegansEngl. [family MORACEAE ] Verified by de Ruiter, G., Myrianthus preussiiNot on sheet. [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
Myrianthus preussii
Myrianthus elegans
Flora
Entry for MYRIANTHUS elegans Engl. [family CECROPIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 2, page 17, (1916) Author: (By J. HUTCHINSON AND A. B. Rendle)
Names
MYRIANTHUS elegansEngl. [family CECROPIACEAE], in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907–8, ii. 182.
Information
A shrub 6–10 ft. high; branchlets slender, when young bearing like the petioles and inflorescences minute grey hairs, ultimately glabrous. Leaves with 5 leaflets, membranous, lanceolate, with a long sharply acuminate apex, 1–1 1/4 in. long, acute base and entire margin, glabrous on the upper face, covered with a minute grey tomentum beneath, the three median leaflets 8 3/4–10 3/4 in. long, 2 1/4–3 1/4 in. wide, narrowing gradually from the upper third to the 7–10 lin.-long stalk; the lateral leaflets about 4 in. long with a stalk 5 lin. long; petiole 4–6 1/2 in. long. Male inflorescences much branched, about 4 in. long and broad, the ultimate branchlets bearing more or less confluent nearly globular clusters of flowers 3/4–1 lin. in diam. on pedicels 1/2–1 lin. long. Flowers 3–4-merous; perianth-segments obovate, ciliolate, shorter than the stamens; anthers didymous. Female plant unknown.
Distribution
South Central Beni: forest of Muera, north-west of Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 2260.
Notes
Near M. gracilis, Engl., but distinguished by the entire leaf-margin and the small spherical flower-clusters.
