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Strychnos volkensii

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Identification
Strychnos volkensii Gilg [family LOGANIACEAE ] Verified by Leeuwenberg,A.J.M., Strychnos spinosa Lam. [family LOGANIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg,A.J.M.,
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  • Strychnos spinosa
  • Strychnos volkensii

Flora

Entry for STRYCHNOS Volkensii 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 Volkensii Gilg [family LOGANIACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 311. —Gilg in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 76; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 702.
Information
A tree 30–40 ft. high; branchlets armed with curved pungent spines at the nodes. Leaves oblong or oblong-ovate, 1 1/2–2 in. long by half as broad, glabrous, narrowed gradually to the base, subacute, 5-nerved; petiole 1/8– 1/6 as long as the blade. Cymes lax, many-flowered, from the tip of the branchlets; bracts minute, triangular, acute. Sepals ovate, acuminate, less than half as long as the corolla. Corolla 1/8 in. long; lobes ovate, rather longer than the campanulate tube. Fruit shaped like an orange, with edible pulp.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Golungo Alto; forests at the base of Alto Queta, Welwitsch, 4769, and at Dalatanda, Welwitsch, 4775.German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Tanga, Holst, 2095! Volkens, 103, Amboni, Holst, 2670!

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