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Schrebera welwitschii

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Name

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

Flora

Entry for SCHREBERA Welwitschii 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 Welwitschii Gilg [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 73.
SCHREBERA alata Welw. [family ], in Trans. Linn. Soc xxvii. 41, partly.
Nathusia alata Hiern [family OLEACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 656, partly.
Information
A small or middle-sized tree, with glabrous branchlets. Leaves 5-foliolate, with a long broadly winged petiole and rhachis; leaflets oblanceolate-oblong or oblong, acute, thin, glabrous, the end one 3–4 in. long, narrowed very gradually to the base, the side ones shorter, unequal towards the base. Cymes very compound, terminal, pedicels very short. Calyx campanulate, pubescent, 1/6 in. long, distinctly toothed. Corolla-tube cylindrical, 1/3 in. long; lobes obovate-cuneate, half as long as the tube. Fruit hard, pyriform, glabrous, 1 in. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in woods on the south-west of the Præsidium, Welwitsch, 937! Huilla; in forests in Morro de Lopollo, Welwitsch, 938!

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