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Pleiocarpa pycnantha

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Name

Identification
Pleiocarpa pycnantha (K.Schum.) Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Omino,E.A., Pleiocarpa swynnertonii S.Moore [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pleiocarpa bagshawei
  • Pleiocarpa micrantha
  • Hunteria pycnantha
  • Pleiocarpa swynnertonii
  • Pleiocarpa welwistchii
  • Pleiocarpa tubicina
  • Pleiocarpa pycnantha
  • Pleiocarpa welwitschii
  • Pleiocarpa flavescens
  • Pleiocarpa microcarpa
Common name
  • irokoro (Kennedy) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • o-kanwen, ka: to taste; nwen: bitter (JMD; FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kakapembe (FRI) (GHANA, SEHWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kpεtεkpεtε (Howes) (GHANA, ADANGME), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kakapembe (FRI) (GHANA, ANYI-AOWIN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kakapimbe (FRI) (GHANA, NZEMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kpεtε-kpεtε-t∫o (JMD) (GHANA, ADANGME-KROBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kpetekpete (Howes) (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for PLEIOCARPA pycnantha 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
PLEIOCARPA pycnantha Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
Hunteria pycnantha K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 222; Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg Wissensch. Anstalt. xvii. (1899) 3. Beih. 191 partly.
Information
A shrub; branches slender, terete, drying black. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subobtuse or shortly and obtusely acuminate, acute at the base, 2–3 1/2 in. long, 1–1 1/3 in. broad, chartaceous, shining above; secondary nerves about 15 on each side, quite obscure below, very slightly raised above, with similar tertiary nerves between them, much spreading, straight; veins quite obscure below, faintly raised above; petiole 3–5 lin. long. Flowers pedicelled in many- (about 20-) flowered much contracted axillary umbels or panicles, often from the axils of fallen leaves; pedicels up to 1 lin. long. Calyx 1 lin. long; sepals ovate-oblong, subacute or obtuse. Corolla-tube up to 5 lin. long; lobes oblong, obtuse, up to 2 1/2 lin. long. Carpels 2, 2-ovuled.
Distribution
Uganda Nile Land Sesse Islands, in Lake Victoria, Stuhlmann, 1216!
Notes
Schumann describes (l.c.) the inflorescence in the Latin diagnosis as terminal or axillary, in the German text, however, as axillary and frequently springing from the lower denuded part of the branches. When I saw the specimen in the Berlin herbarium, I omitted to make a special concerning this point, but put the specimen down as belonging to Pleiocarpa, which implies that it has exclusively or predominantly axillary inflorescences.

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