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Schrebera tomentella

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Name

Identification
Schrebera alata Welw. [family OLEACEAE ] Schrebera tomentella (Welw.) Gilg [family OLEACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Schrebera alata
  • Schrebera tomentella

Flora

Entry for SCHREBERA tomentella Gilg [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 1, (1904) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
SCHREBERA tomentella Gilg [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 74.
SCHREBERA alata Welw. var. tomentella [family ], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 42.
Nathusia alata Hiern var. tomentella [family OLEACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 657.
Information
A shrub or small tree, with densely pubescent branchlets. Leaves 5-foliolate, with a short densely pubescent petiole and narrowly winged rhachis; leaflets oblong, obtuse, thinly pubescent on the upper surface, densely pubescent beneath, the end one 2–3 in. long, narrowed very gradually to the base, the side ones shorter, sessile, slightly oblique at the base. Cymes dense; pedicels short, pubescent; bracts obovate, obtuse, membranous. Calyx campanulate, pubescent, 1/6 in. long, minutely toothed. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx; lobes obovate-cuneate, 1/6 in. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; in the rocky higher parts of Morro de Lopollo, 5200–5500 ft., Welwitsch, 939! Foot of the Keputu Mountains, 5800 ft., Antunes & Dekindt, 198.

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