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Rotula aquatica

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Name

Identification
Rotula aquatica Loureiro [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Ehretia uniflora Roxburgh [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by Roxb., 1824
Related name
  • Ehretia uniflora
  • Rotula aquatica
  • Zombiana africana
  • Myoporum unrecorded

Flora

Entry for RHABDIA lycioides Mart. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
RHABDIA lycioides Mart. [family BORAGINACEAE], Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. ii. 137, t. 195. —DC. Prodr. ix. 512; Fres. in Mart. Fl. Bras. viii. i. 58, t. 9, fig. 11; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 145.
RHABDIA viminea Dalz. ex Hook. [family BORAGINACEAE], Ic. t. 823.
Ehrhetia cuneata Wight [family ], Ic. t. 1385.
Rotula aquatica Lour. [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Cochin. 121; DC. Prodr. ix. 531.
Information
A much-branched shrub, 3–6 ft. high; branchlets stiff, slender, hispid. Leaves oblanceolate-oblong, 1–1 1/2 in. long, obtuse, entire, subcoriaceous, hispid, 1–1 1/2 in. long. Flowers in sparse corymbs on short lateral branchlets. Calyx about 2 lin. long. Corolla twice as long as the calyx; lobes rather longer than the tube. Stamens half as long as the corolla. Drupe the size of a pea, glabrous, yellow or red-brown.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Mbidjem, Thierry, 217! and without precise locality, Heudelot, 116!Lagos Upper Guinea Yoruba, on the banks of streams, Barter, 1143!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea on rocks in the bed of the Niger at Farana, Scott-Elliot, 5339! by rivers on the way to Kukuna, Scott-Elliot, 4718!
Distribution (external)
Tropical Asia
Brazil

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