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Oncinotis glabrata

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Identification
Isotype of Oncinotis glandulosa Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by deKruif,A.P.M., Oncinotis glabrata (Baill.) Stapf ex Hiern [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by deKruif,A.P.M.,
Related name
  • Oncinotis jespersenii
  • Oncinotis glandulosa
  • Motandra glabrata
  • Oncinotis batesii
  • Oncinotis glabrata
  • Oncinotis nitida
Common name
  • agbaboje (MacGregor) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for ONCINOTIS glabrata Stapf ex Hiern [family APOCYNACEAE]
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 24, (1904) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
ONCINOTIS glabrata Stapf ex Hiern [family APOCYNACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 674.
Motandra glabrata Baill. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 760; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 164.
Information
A very tall climber, perfectly glabrous except the inflorescences; branches terete, brown when dry. Leaves oblong, abruptly acuminate, shortly acute or rounded at the base, 2 1/2–4 in. long, 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. broad, papery, usually glossy on both sides; secondary nerves 5–9; veins joining in a loose slightly raised network; petiole slender, 6 lin. long. Flowers in slender often paired axillary panicles, 1 1/2–4 in. long, or reduced almost to racemes, very finely rusty puberulous; bracts minute, caducous; pedicels 1 3/4 lin. long or hardly any. Calyx 1 lin. long, finely pubescent; sepals ovate, obtuse, ultimately recurved at the tips. Corolla greenish-yellow, very finely pubescent without, subcylindric in bud; tube 1 1/2–2 lin. long; lobes oblong, as long as the tube; throat-scales 1/2 lin. long, linear-oblong. Follicles lanceolate, with a curved acumen, over 4 in. long, glabrous. Seeds 5 1/2 lin. long; coma 1 1/2 lin. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Golungo Alto; in forests by the Ambaca Road, Welwitsch, 5957! in forests on the Queta Mountains, Welwitsch, 5958! banks of the River Coango, Welwitsch, 6014!

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