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Psychotria multiflora

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Type of Psychotria multiflora Schumach. & Thonn. [family RUBIACEAE]
Holotype of Psychotria multiflora Thonn. [family RUBIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Canthium multiflorum (Thonn.) Hiern [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Psychotria multiflora Thonn. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Keetia multiflora
  • Psychotria multiflora
  • Canthium multiflorum

Flora

Entry for CANTHIUM ? multiflorum Hiern [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
CANTHIUM ? multiflorum Hiern [family ]
Psychotria multiflora Thonning [family RUBIACEAE], in Schum. Beskr. Guin. Pl. p. 109.
Information
A decumbent or scandent shrub; branches numerous, brachiate, obtusely tetragonal, quite glabrous. Leaves distichous, oblong-ovate, attenuate at the apex, subacute, shortly petiolate, quite glabrous, delicately net-veined, 2 in. long; stipules attenuate and compressed at the apex. Peduncle axillary, the length of the petiole, twice or thrice bifid; pedicels numerous clustered; bracts opposite at the division of the peduncle, roundish, acute, sessile. Calyx-limb 5-toothed. Corolla tubular-campanulate, whitish; tube pubescent inside, 1/12 in. long; limb 5-cleft; lobes ovate, acute, reflexed, half the length of the tube. Filaments 5, inserted at the mouth of the corolla-tube; anthers ovate-oblong, dark brown. Ovary turbinate-subrotund, quite glabrous; style filiform, a little longer than the tube; stigma capitate, ovoid, obsoletely bifid at the apex.
Distribution
Guinea Upper Guinea about Asiama, flowering in May, Thonning.
Notes
The description is taken from Thonning l. c.; I have seen no specimen.

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