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Oxyanthus tubiflorus

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Name

Identification
Oxyanthus racemosus (Schumach. and Thonn.) Keay [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by R.W.J. Keay, 1956 Ucriana racemosa Schumach. and Thonn. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Oxyanthus tubiflorus DC. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Oxyanthus tubiflorus
  • Sterculia verticillata
  • Oxyanthus racemosus
  • Ucriana racemosa
Common name
  • baja (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ε-bσmatino (NWT) ma-tont (NWT) ma-tontoin (JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • (Sherbro) momana-lε = cow’s udder (FCD) momana-lε = cow’s udder (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, BULOM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • (Magbile) aniyabεmbwa (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • makota (JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • demontié (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for OXYANTHUS tubiflorus DC. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
OXYANTHUS tubiflorus DC. [family RUBIACEAE], Prodr. iv. p. 376. —Bot. Mag. t. 4636.
Gardenia tubiflora Andr. [family RUBIACEAE], Bot. Rep. t. 183, non A. Rich.
Oxyanthus speciosus Sims [family RUBIACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 1992; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, i. 371; Lindl. Collect. Bot. t. 13, non. DC.
Oxyanthus hirsutus DC. [family RUBIACEAE], l. c. n. 3
Ucriana racemosa Schum. et Thonn. [family RUBIACEAE], Pl. Guin. p. 107
OXYANTHUS Thonningii Benth. [family RUBIACEAE], in Hook. Niger Fl. 388.
Information
A hispidulous-puberulous evergreen shrub of no great size. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, more or less acuminate, obtuse rounded or obliquely subauriculate (the upper ones sometimes narrowed) at the base, glabrate above, obsoletely velutinous beneath, thinly coriaceous, 3–7 by 1–3 in., lateral veins about 6–8 pairs; petiole 1/8– 1/5 in.; stipules ovate acute erect, 1/3– 1/2 in. long. Flowers about 6–7 in. long, sweet-scented, about 3–6 together (sometimes more numerous), on short pedicels in abbreviated axillary racemes. Bracteoles lanceolate, very acute. Calyx-limb about 1/8 in. long, puberulous, 5-cleft; teeth ovate, acuminate. Corolla-tube scattered with short slender hairs; lobes 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, white. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit ellipsoidal, glabrate, terete, 1 in. long, 2-celled, rounded at the base. Seeds compressed, 1/4 in. long.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Afzelius! Wilford!Upper Guinea Niger expedition, Barter!Accra Upper Guinea Th. Vogel!Upper Guinea Bagroo River, Mann!
Notes
The fruit is beaten in a mortar and used for food (Hb. Afzelius).

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