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Tetracera senegalensis

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Identification
Tetracera obtusata Planch. ex Oliv. [family DILLENIACEAE ] Tetracera potatoria Afzel ex G.Don [family DILLENIACEAE ] (stored under name); Tetracera senegalensis DC. [family DILLENIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Tetracera senegalensis
  • Tetracera alnifolia
  • Tetracera potatoria
  • Tetracera obtusata

Flora

Entry for TETRACERA alnifolia Willd. [family DILLENIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 11, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
TETRACERA alnifolia Willd. [family DILLENIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ii. 1243 (non DC.).
TETRACERA senegalensis DC. [family DILLENIACEAE], Syst. Veg. i. 401.
TETRACERA obovata DC. [family DILLENIACEAE], l. c.
TETRACERA scabra Hook. f. [family DILLENIACEAE], Fl. Nigrit. 203.
Information
Branches smooth or obsoletely scabrous. Upper leaves broadly elliptical or obovate-elliptical, rounded or cuneate to the petiole below, rounded obtuse or obtusely pointed at the apex, entire or obscurely denticulate, glabrous glabrescent or with appressed hairs beneath, smooth or slightly scabrid, 3–6 in. long, 1 1/2–3 1/2 in. broad. Petiole 4–10 lines, often slightly winged, glabrous or ciliate. Panicles glabrous or with loose or appressed deciduous hairs. Flowers 4–8 lines diam. Sepals glabrous thinly hairy or puberulous outside, glabrous usually within. Carpels glabrous or nearly so.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Golongo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch!Senegambia Upper Guinea Whitfield!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Afzelius! and others;Upper Guinea Brass, and near the Nun river, T. Vogel! Barter! Mouth of Niger and Fernando Po, Mann! etc.
Notes
Through the courtesy of Dr. Garcke, I have had the opportunity of examining the original specimens of this plant in Willdenow's herbarium.

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