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Rytigynia canthioides

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Name

Identification
Rytigynia canthioides (Benth.) Robyns [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Vangueria canthioides Benth. [family RUBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Vangueria canthioides
  • Rytigynia canthioides
  • Vangueria unrecorded
  • Rytigynia claviflora
Common name
  • ε-rεn-ε-ro-bat (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ting ting (JMD; Har.) (LIBERIA, MANO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • (Tschaudjo) wramfulinia (Gaisser fide JMD) (TOGO, TEM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • foklo-bafa (def. -ai) (FWHM; FCD) morre (Aylmer) pεbi (NWT) pεwi (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Rytigynia canthioides (Benth.) Robyns [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Names
Rytigynia canthioides (Benth.) Robyns [family RUBIACEAE], l.c. 188 (1928).
Vangueria canthioides Benth. [family RUBIACEAE], (1849)-F.T.A3: 149, partly
Canthium benthamianum Baill. [family RUBIACEAE], (1878)
Rytigynia claviflora Robyns [family RUBIACEAE], l.c187 (1928); F.W.T.A., ed1, 2: 111, partly (exclsyn.).
Information
A straggling shrub or small tree with rusty-pubescent branchlets and horizontal branches; flowers green or yellowish, fragrant; in secondary forest.
Habitat
; in secondary forest.
Distribution
Guin.: Macenta (fl. & fr. Apr., May) Jac.-Fél. 907!Adam 12077!S. L.: Don! Sugar Loaf Mt., 2,500 ft. (Apr.) Hepper 2541! Bagroo R. (Apr.) Mann 866! Kenema (Apr., May) Lane-Poole 240! Small 43! Njala (May) Deighton 6061!Lib.: Mecca (fl. & fr. Dec.) Baldwin 10815! Kakatown Whyte! Moala-Suen (Nov.) Linder 1385! Ganta (May) Barley 1156! Gletown (July) Baldwin 6907!Iv. C.: Tonkouy (Dec.) Roberty 15844! Sassandra (Dec.) Leeuwenberg 2231!Ghana: Abra, W. Prov. (Jan.) Akpabla 810! Kumasi (Mar.) Vigne FH 1643! Ashanti Akim (Apr.) Irvine 959!Togo Rep.: Misahöhe Baumann 433.S. Nig.: Eba Isl., Ijebu Prov. (Mar.) Richards 3250!
Notes
[Note: Jac.-Fél. 907, Adam 12077 and Harley 1156 are intermediate between this species and R. nigerica: they also possess pubescent corolla and calyx.]

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