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Sterculia pubescens

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Identification
Sterculia pubescens G.Don [family STERCULIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Sterculia purpurea Exell [family STERCULIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Exell, A. W. & Mendonça, F. A., 1938
Related name
  • Sterculia javanica
  • Sterculia pubescens
  • Sterculia purpurea
  • Sterculia cordata
  • Sterculia mollis

Flora

Entry for STERCULIA Tragacantha Lindl. [family STERCULIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 214, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
STERCULIA Tragacantha Lindl. [family STERCULIACEAE], Bot. Reg. t. 1353.
STERCULIA pubescens Don [family STERCULIACEAE], Gen. Syst. i. 615.
STERCULIA obovata R. Br. [family STERCULIACEAE], Pl. Jav. Rar. 233.
Information
A tree 40–50 ft. high, with rugged greyish bark; younger shoots as well as the leafstalks, under surface of the leaves, pedicels, calyx, and outer surface of the follicles, clothed with rufous down. Leafstalks 1–2 in. long. Leaves leathery, oblong, obtuse at the base, blunt or subacuminate at the apex or even slightly 3-lobed, entire or sinuous, unicostate, feather-veined. Flowers small, numerous, in much-branched clusters; pedicels jointed. Calyx funnel-shaped, red, 5-toothed; lobes oblong, cohering at the apex. Column shorter than the calyx. Anthers in 2 rows. Follicles 5, stipitate, oblong acute or slightly cuspidate, covered with close reddish down, 2–4 in. long, 1 1/2 in. across.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Smith!Cape Coast Upper Guinea Brass!Niger Upper Guinea Barter!Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Don!

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