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Sabicea vogelii

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Name

Identification
Sabicea vogelii Benth. [family RUBICEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Sabicea globifera
  • Sabicea feruginea
  • Sabicea vogelii
Common name
  • (Magbile) ubwesi (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • tegbenyugi (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • namate (indef.) = blood seed (LP; FCD) ŋamate (indef.) (FCD) ngawe (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • kσmalσndo (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • kunkuré sembé (Farmar) (GUINEA, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • kσtσgσŋ (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, KORANKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • mindo (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for SABICEA Vogelii 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 Vogelii Benth. [family RUBIACEAE], in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 398.
Information
A twining shrub, with terete glabrescent branches. Leaves oval or ovate, acuminate, obtuse and oblique at the base, sparsely and appressedly pilose at least above, hairy on the veins beneath, 1 1/2–4 by 2/3–1 2/3 in., or the upper ones smaller; lateral veins about 8 on each side of the midrib; petiole 1/4– 1/2 in.; stipules varying from subrotund to linear, about 1/4 in. long. Flowers 4–6-merous, about 1/2 in. long, white, shortly pedicellate, many together in globose pedunculate subcapitate cymes of about 1 in. diameter; common peduncle 1/6– 2/3 in.; bracts 2–4, ovate or oblong, 1/4– 1/3 in. long. Calyx-tube shaggy, short; lobes linear, 1/4– 3/8 in. long, spreading, persistent, glabrous inside. Corolla lobes short, shaggy outside, glabrous inside, ovary 5-celled. Fruit 1/8 in. diam.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Th. Vogel! Barter! Afzelius! Smeathman!

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