Pycnobotrya nitidaBenth. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Okafor, J.C., 1966
Related name
Pycnobotrya nitida
Pycnobotrya multiflora
Flora
Entry for PYCNOBOTRYA nitida Benth. [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
PYCNOBOTRYA nitidaBenth. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1183. —K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 162.
Information
A scandent shrub, 50 ft. high; branches terete, very finely rusty-tomentose when young, soon glabrescent and black when dry. Leaves opposite or ternate, lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, cuneate at the base, 2 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 in. broad, shining and glabrous above, paler, dull and dotted with black glands, and minutely rusty-papillose on the midrib below; secondary nerves scarcely 1 lin. distant, with fainter parallel veins between them; petiole slender, 2–3 lin. long. Panicle very many-flowered, compound, often leafy, finely rusty-tomentose all over; peduncle 1/2–1 in. long; bracts minute, ovate to lanceolate, acute; pedicels up to 1/2 lin. long. Calyx 1/2 lin. long. Corolla glabrous, 2 lin. long in the mature bud; tube 3/4 lin. long. Anthers 1/2 lin. long.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Corisco Bay; Mount John, on the Kongui River, Mann, 1809!
