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Pergularia extensa

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Identification
Pergularia extensa (Jacq.) N.E.Br. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pergularia extensa
Common name
  • kponkehi (FRI, ex JMD) kponkeki (DS; FRI) (GHANA, GBE-VHE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • eflenzué (B&D) lè san nya = 3-day leaves (PG) néfren zuè (B&D) (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dipagné (K&B; B&D) dipé (B&D) (IVORY COAST, GUERE (Chiehn)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • diliwoplu (K&B) libiwopru (K&B) (IVORY COAST, ‘KRU’), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • drignon, grigno iri (B&D) sienfélé (K&B) solo (B&D) (IVORY COAST, KWENI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ndin (JB, ex K&A) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • abu konbengo (B&D) (IVORY COAST, KYAMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • mébufu (A&AA) (IVORY COAST, ADYUKRU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bubélé (B&D) wonda (K&B) (IVORY COAST, GAGU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nyo yi bεlε (JMD) (LIBERIA, MANO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kuasuafé (K&B) (IVORY COAST, MANDING-DYULA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nsurogya = does not fear fire (FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • fune-fune (A. Chev.) (MALI, MANDINC-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • puni (K&A) tat i ganar = cloaca of the hen (K&A; JB) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • plu airïé (K&B) pulairïé (K&B) (IVORY COAST, KRU-GUERE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • i-joyun (auctt.) kọ́léọrọ́gbà = building house on top offence, from kọ́le ori ọgbà, after its habit (auctt.) yanyan (RJN) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • utaezi (Singha) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kàba (FRI; KD) (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kuasuafé (K&B) (UPPER VOLTA, MANDING-DYULA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for PERGULARIA extensa N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Names
PERGULARIA extensa N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Dæmia extensa R. Br. [family ], in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 50; Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, ii. 76; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 113; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 156; Decne in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 2, ix. 336, and in DC. Prodr. viii. 544; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 35; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 343; Martelli, Fl. Bogos, 54; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 690; Penzig in Atti del Congr. Internaz. 1892, 348; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 11; Journ. Bot. 1896, 458 (excl. syn. D. garipensis, E. Meyer); De Wild. and Durand, Pl. Thonn. 33, and Reliq. Dewevr. 159; N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 387.
Dæmia æthiopica Decne [family ], in DC. Prodr. viii. 544; Hook. Niger Fl. 454.
Dæmia angolensis Decne [family ], in DC. Prodr. viii. 544; Hook. Niger Fl. 454.
Dæmia bicolor Sweet [family ], Hort. Brit. ed. 1, 280.
Dæmia scandens G. Don ex Loud. [family ], Hort. Brit. 94.
Dæmia guineensis G. Don [family ], Gen. Syst. iv. 156.
Dæmia barbata Schlechter [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 43, not of Klotzsch.
Dæmia cordifolia K. Schum. [family ], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 324, in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 257, fig. 74, and 258, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 40.
Dimia extensa Spreng. [family ], Syst. Veg. i. 853; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 906.
Cynanchum extensum Jacq. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Miscell. ii. 353, and Ic. Rar. i. t. 54; Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 1, i. 303; Salisb. Prodr. 149; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1257.
Cynanchum cordifolium Retz. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Obs. Bot. ii. 15.
Cynanchum bicolor Andr. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Bot. Rep. ix. t. 562.
Cynanchum echinatum Thunb. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Obs. in Cynanch. 8.
Cynanchum pendulum Poir. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Encycl. Suppl. ii. 429; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 108.
Asclepias scandens Beauv. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Fl. Oware et Benin, i. 93, t. 56.
Asclepias convolvulacea Willd. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Sp. Pl. i. 1269; Schum. and Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 152.
Asclepias muricata Schum. and Thonn. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl. 153.
Raphistemma ciliatum Hook. f. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 5704.
Information
stem twining, and together with the petioles, peduncles and pedicels pubescent, setose-pubescent or hispid; leaves herbaceous; petiole 3/4–3 1/2 in. long; blade 1–6 in. long, 3/4–5 in. broad, cordate-orbicular or cordate-ovate, cuspidate-acuminate, with a minute and rather thin pubescence on both sides or glabrous with hairs on the veins beneath; basal lobes incurved, semiorbicular, with a broad truncate-based sinus between them; peduncles sublateral, longer than the leaves, with the flowers developing in a corymbose manner at the apex, gradually elongating into a raceme 2–16 in. long, including the peduncle; bracts 1/2–1 lin. long, linear or subulate; pedicels 1–1 1/4 in. long, rather slender; sepals 1–2 lin. long, ovate or lanceolate, acute, glabrous or pubescent; corolla-tube 1 1/2–2 lin. long, campanulate; lobes very spreading, 3–4 lin. long, 1 1/2–2 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, acute, bearded along the margins; outer corona-lobes 1/2 lin. long, subquadrate or oblong, obtuse, truncate or denticulate; inner corona-lobes 2 1/2–4 lin. long, fleshy, white, lanceolate, attenuate into subulate entire or bifid points, much exceeding and incurved over the staminal column, with an acute spur about 1 lin. long arising below the middle (2/3– 3/4 lin. above the base) of the staminal column; follicles 2–3 in. long, 1/2 in. thick, narrowly lanceolate, attenuate into a long beak, varying from densely echinate to nearly or quite free from tubercles or processes, pubescent; seeds 1/3 in. long, ovate, plano-convex, marginate, dentate or crenulate at the broad end, pubescent on both sides. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa, Madagascar, and extending through Arabia into India.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; near the Tugela River, Gerrard, 1802! Delagoa Bay, Monteiro, 19! Schlechter, 11959!KALAHARI REGION Bechuanaland; Banquaketse Territory, near Moshoneng, Holub! Transvaal; near Klippan, Rehmann, 5297! near Ramakopa, Schlechter 4507!
Notes
In the Tropical African forms the flowers vary from white or whitish-green, with or without a red blotch at the base of the lobes, to pale yellowish-green or lurid green with a red blotch at the base of the lobes. The follicles are exceedingly variable in their amount of echination.

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