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Polysphaeria multiflora

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Identification
Polysphaeria multiflora Hiern [family RUBIACEAE ]
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Entry for POLYSPHAERIA multiflora Hiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
POLYSPHAERIA multiflora Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], (1877).
Information
Shrub or tree up to 10 m tall; bark brown peeling in long strips; young stems glabrous. Leaf-blades elliptic to lanceolate, 2–11.5(–19) x 1–4(–4.5) cm, ± acute at the apex, cuneate to subcordate at the base, sometimes with wavy margins, glabrous; petiole 5–9 mm long; stipules 2.5–4 mm long, triangular, keeled. Flowers in dense clusters, sweetly scented. Calyx 1.5(–2) mm long, glabrous to puberulous outside, truncate or with undulate margin. Corolla white; tube (2–)4 mm long, glabrous to puberulous outside; lobes ovate, 1.5–2 mm long. Fruit globose, 7–9 mm in diam., glabrous, dark, flecked with white. Seeds ± semiglobose, c. 6 mm long.

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