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Myrianthus gracilis

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Identification
Isotype of Myrianthus gracilis Engl. [family MORACEAE ] Verified by de Ruiter, G., Myrianthus preussii Engl. [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
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  • Myrianthus preussii
  • Myrianthus gracilis

Flora

Entry for MYRIANTHUS gracilis 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 gracilis Engl. [family CECROPIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 150. —Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 39, t. xvii. B.; Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907–8, ii. 182.
Information
A shrub or small tree 5–6 ft. high, branchlets and petioles with very short hairs. Leaves with 7 leaflets which are thin, lanceolate, apex long and very sharply acuminate, base acute, margin sharply serrate-dentate, very unequal, the median which are 2 1/2 times as long as the outermost from 6–11 in. long, 2–3 in. wide, narrowing cuneately from the upper third down to the stalk which is 7 lin. long, apex 7–10 lin. long, very densely net-veined and very shortly tomentose between the nerves; petiole slender, furrowed, 6–8 in. long. Stipules broadly ovate, with appressed hairs on the outside. Male inflorescence much branched, covered with short greyish hairs, more than 4 in. long, branches 1 1/4–2 in. long, the ultimate branchlets bearing oblong more or less confluent flower-clusters 2 1/2–5 lin. long and 2 lin. broad. Flowers 3–4-merous; sepals obovate, ciliolate; stamens rather broadly linear, overtopping the sepals. Female flowers and fruit unknown.
Distribution
South Central Beni: Muera, north-west of Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 2248.Cameroons Upper Guinea forest between Barombi-ba-Ubu and Kake, Preuss, 478.

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