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Neurotheca corymbosa

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Name

Identification
Neurotheca exacoides Gilg [family GENTIANACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Neurotheca corymbosa Hua [family GENTIANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Neurotheca corymbosa
  • Neurotheca exacoides

Flora

Entry for NEUROTHECA corymbosa Hua [family GENTIANACEAE]
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 544, (1904) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by N. E. Brown.)
Names
NEUROTHECA corymbosa Hua [family GENTIANACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlviii. 262 and 267.
NEUROTHECA exacoides Gilg [family GENTIANACEAE], in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 304, name only.
Information
Perennial, 4–5 in. high, with several stems from the base. Radical leaves rosulate, 1/2–1 in. long, 2–2 1/2 lin. broad, spathulate-oblong or oblanceolate, narrowed into a petiole; stem leaves in 2–4 distant pairs, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, 1–2 1/2 lin. broad, oblanceolate to linear, narrowed at the base. Flowers 4–12 or more crowded in corymb-like clusters at the top of the stems and branches. Calyx equally and prominently 8-ribbed; tube 2 lin. long; lobes 1 2/3 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, deltoid-ovate, acute, spreading. Corolla-tube 4–4 1/4 lin. long; lobes 3 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, elliptic, acute. Stamens reaching to the mouth of the Corolla-tube; anthers oblong, not apiculate. Style exserted; stigma with 2 linear recurved lobes.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Cape Lopez, sands near the sea, Thollon, ser. ii. 43, Schlechter, 12814! sandy plain of Dayor, Griffon du Bellay, 104; desert plain at Fernand Vaz, Leroy; Mayumba, Dybowski, 38; Ngore, moist sandy prairies, Dybowski, 112.

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