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Pentaloncha humilis

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Name

Identification
Pauridiantha pyramidata (K.Krause) Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Pentaloncha humilis Hook.f. [family RUBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pauridiantha pyramidata
  • Pentaloncha obovata
  • Pentaloncha humilis

Flora

Entry for PENTALONCHA humilis Hook. f. [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
PENTALONCHA humilis Hook. f. [family RUBIACEAE], in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 73.
Information
A nearly glabrous decumbent herb, about a foot long; stem somewhat wiry and compressed. Leaves obovate, cuspidate, attenuate at the base, 3–6 by 1 1/2–2 3/5 in.; petiole 1/3– 1/2 in.; lateral veins about 8–10 pairs; stipules acute, about 1/2 in. long. Flowers about 1/3 in. long, shortly pedicellate, many together in very shortly pedunculate axillary cymes. Lamina of the calyx-lobes not exceeding 1/10 in. Corolla white. Fruit about 1/10 in. diam.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Sierra del Crystal, 1° N. lat., Mann!

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