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Strychnos heterodoxa

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Name

Identification
Strychnos potatorum L.f. [family LOGANIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg,A.J.M., Isotype of Strychnos heterodoxa Gilg [family LOGANIACEAE ] Verified by Leeuwenberg,A.J.M.,
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  • Strychnos potatorum
  • Strychnos heterodoxa

Flora

Entry for STRYCHNOS heterodoxa Gilg [family LOGANIACEAE]
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 503, (1904) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
STRYCHNOS heterodoxa Gilg [family LOGANIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 118. —Merker in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iii. 196.
Information
A shrub, 3–4 yards high, without spines or tendrils. Leaves shortly petioled, oblong or obovate-oblong, 3–4 in. long, very acute, narrowed to the base, triplinerved from above the base, glabrous. Cymes axillary, peduncled, 7–15-flowered; pedicels 1/16– 1/10 in. long. Sepals under 1 lin. long. Corolla 1/4 in. long; tube cylindrical, twice as long as the ovate subacute lobes, green inside, with a crown of dense hairs above the throat. Anthers subsessile at the throat of the corolla-tube. Fruit unknown.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Uhehe; Mukinde Steppe, 4900 ft., Goetze, 519!

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