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Flora
Entry for SABICEA calycina Benth. [family RUBIACEAE]
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
SABICEA calycinaBenth. [family RUBIACEAE], in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 399.
Information
A twining or trailing shrub of 1–20 ft.; branches sometimes rooting, glabrate. Leaves oval-ovate, subacuminate, obtuse or excavated at the base, subglabrous except the pilose nerves beneath, 1–5 by 1/2–2 1/4 in.; lateral veins 7–12 on each side of the midrib; petiole ranging up to 1 in. or more; stipules broadly ovate, acute, 1/5– 1/3 in. long. Flowers 1/2– 3/4 in. long, glabrous, subsessile, several together in subglobose capitate pedunculate cymes 1/2–1 in. diam.; peduncles 1–3 1/2 in. long, glabrous; bracts 1/3– 1/2 in. long, broad, involucrate. Calyx-tube short; lobes 3–5, unequal, foliaceous, oval, reddish or white, 1/3– 1/2 by 1/6– 1/4 in. Corolla white outside; lobes 5, short, ovate. Style 4–5-cleft. Fruit 4–5-celled, 1/8 in. diameter.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea Th. Vogel! Barter! Mann!Niger Upper Guinea Barter!
