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Oncinotis tenuiloba

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Name

Identification
Oncinotis tenuiloba Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by deKruif,A.P.M., Isotype of Oncinotis natalensis Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by deKruif,A.P.M., Isotype of Oncinotis inandensis J.M.Wood&M.S.Evans [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by deKruif,A.P.M.,
Related name
  • Strophanthus unrecorded
  • Motandra erlangeri
  • Oncinotis inandensis
  • Oncinotis chirindica
  • Oncinotis tenuiloba
  • Oncinotis natalensis
  • Oncinotis campanulata

Flora

Entry for ONCINOTIS tenuiloba Stapf [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 tenuiloba Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 307. —Stapf in De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 41; De Wild. & Durand, Ill. Fl. Congo, 131, t. lxxvi.; Reliq. Dewevr. 156.
Information
A climbing shrub, quite glabrous except the young branchlets and inflorescences; young branches delicately tomentose, soon glabrous, slender. Leaves lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, acutely acuminate, acute at the base, 2 1/2–3 in. long, 1 in. broad, thinly coriaceous; secondary nerves about 5 on each side, very oblique; transverse veins loose; petiole slender, 2–3 lin. long. Panicles from the axils of the upper leaves, ovate to lanceolate in outline, 1 1/2–2 in. long, slender, delicately and minutely tomentose; peduncle up to 1/2 in. long; bracts minute, caducous; pedicels up to 1 1/2 lin. long. Calyx 3/4 lin. long; sepals ovate-oblong, subacute, delicately pubescent, eglandular within. Corolla greenish-yellow, delicately and minutely tomentose without; tube 1 1/2 lin. long; lobes linear, up to 3 lin. long; throat-scales filiform, obtuse, not quite 1/2 lin. long. Anthers 1 lin. long.
Distribution
Congo South Central near the Inkassa River, Dewèvre, 883!

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