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Pleiocarpa mutica

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Name

Identification
Pleiocarpa mutica Benth. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pleiocarpa mutica
Common name
  • kakané (B&D) (IVORY COAST, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • mambeya (B&D) mogba popo (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, KYAMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • rafσi (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kafa (def. kafei) group name for several shrubs (auctt.) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kakana (FRI) (GHANA, SEHWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • a-lap-a-ro-bamp (NWT) a-poli (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • o-kanwene (auctt.) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • efi (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, ABE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kakana (FRI) (GHANA, ANYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kakana (FRI) (GHANA, ANYI-AOWIN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kakana (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, ANYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dikpa probably this sp. (K&B) (IVORY COAST, DAN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kakémé (B&D) taboo (B&D) (IVORY COAST, ABURE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • frantu probably this sp. (K&B) nuliaïé probably this sp. (K&B) (IVORY COAST, ‘KRU’), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kanwene (CV) kanwini (CV) (GHANA, WASA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kanwene, ka: to taste; nwene: bitter (auctt.) (GHANA, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • am-baleng (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE (Yoni)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for PLEIOCARPA mutica 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
PLEIOCARPA mutica Benth. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1181. —K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 135, fig. 52, C-D.
Hunteria pleiocarpa Hallier f. [family APOCYNACEAE], Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899), 3. Beih. 193 partly.
Information
A shrub, 5 ft. high; branches dark brown; lenticels few, rather large. Leaves elliptic or oblong, abruptly acuminate (acumen linear, obtuse, up to 7 lin. long), acute or subacute at the base, 3–6 in. long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glossy above; secondary nerves 11–14 on each side; petiole 3 lin. long. Flowers in axillary clusters of 10–20, often from the axils of fallen leaves. Calyx 3/4–1 lin. long; sepals broad, ovate, obtuse. Corolla-tube 6–8 1/2 lin. long; lobes ovate to oblong, obtuse, 3–3 1/2 lin. long. Carpels 5, 1-ovuled. Berries ovoid-globose, obtuse or apiculate, rugose, 4 lin. long, 1-seeded.
Distribution
Nigeria Upper Guinea Old Calabar River, Mann, 2277! Thomson, 38! Robb! Adiabo, Holland, 106! Cross River, Johnston!Cameroons Upper Guinea Rio del Rey, Johnston! Lolodorf, Staudt, 322!
Notes
Hallier f., l.c., also quotes a fruiting specimen collected by Dinklage (1432) near Batanga, under this species.

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