Entry for NEOBOUTONIA africana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
NEOBOUTONIA africanaMüll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1864, 336. —DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 892; Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. sub tt. 1298, 1299 as to citation but excluding the description and figures; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 980.
Information
Shrub or small tree, 15–20 ft. high; twigs grey stellate-scurfy. Leaves distinctly petioled, orbicular-cordate, acute, entire, 4–10 in. long, as much across, green, sparingly stellate-scurfy on main nerves above, beneath closely uniformly clothed with a fine felted tomentum intermixed with small flat glands; petiole finely and closely scurfy; stipules not seen. Male flowers pedicelled, copiously panicled, in bud globose, 1 lin. wide when open; rhachis and panicle branches scurfy. Calyx glabrous. Stamens about 20; filaments longer than the anthers, slender; connective usually with 3 (sometimes with a solitary) apical gland; extra-staminal scales ovate. Female flowers in copiously branched racemes, small, 2 lin. long, 3 lin. wide. Sepals linear-lanceolate, pubescent, connate below in a very short tube. Ovary with tufts of stellate hairs; styles narrow with 2 linear lobes. Capsule 3-coccous, dark greenish-brown, pubescent, 4 lin. long, as much across. Seeds subglobose; hilum prolonged down on the inner side.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 359! 3596! Cazengo, Gossweiler, 4376! 4376A! 4746!Congo South Central Elizabethville, Rogers, 10261!
