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Scytopetalum tieghemii

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Name

Identification
Scytopetalum tarquense Sprague [family SCYTOPETALACEAE ] Scytopetalum tieghemii Hutch. & Dalziell [family SCYTOPETALACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Rhaptopetalum tieghemi
  • Scytopetalum tarquense
  • Scytopetalum tieghemii
Common name
  • ndegbe-mewuli (or -mewulo) from mewuli: stick; eaten by ndegbei: a fish of the ‘cat’ family [?meaning] (auctt.) degbeme-yawii from yawii: a gum tree (S&F) deŋbemewulo (FCD) dengbeyaw (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • duekε (FCD; S&F) papa-kσne (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for Scytopetalum tieghemii (A. Chev.) Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCYTOPETALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
Scytopetalum tieghemii (A. Chev.) Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCYTOPETALACEAE], F.W.T.A. ed. 1, 1: 238 (1927); Kew Bull. 1928: 228; Aubrév. Fl. For. C. Iv. 2: 266, t. 232.
Rhaptopetalum tieghemii A. Chev. [family SCYTOPETALACEAE], Vég. Util. 5: 220 (1909); ChevBot122.
Information
Aforesttree, to 60 ft. high, branchlets “weeping”; sometimes abundant in relatively moist places; flowers white, fragrant when first open in the morning, petals and stamens shrivelling and falling the same evening; fruit red when ripe.
Habitat
forest
Distribution
S. L. Njala (Mar., Apr.) Deighton 1157!Lib. Dukwia R. (fl. Feb., young fr. June) Cooper 247! 356! Barclayville (young fr. Mar.) Baldwin 11134! Zeahtown, Tchien (fr.Iv.C. Malamalasso (fr. Mar.) Chev. 16252! Abidjan Aubrév.G. C. Bonsaso, Tarkwa (May) Chipp 209! Tarkwa (Feb.) Thompson 44! Bawdia (fl. 8 young fr. Apr.) Vigne FH 953! Axim (Feb.) Irvine 2236! Prestea Road, Enchi Dist. (fl. 8 young fr. Mar.) Andoh FH 5631! (See Appendix, p. 95.)

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