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Torenia parviflora

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Name

Identification
Torenia parviflora Buch.-Ham. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Torenia thouarsii (Cham. & Schltdl.) Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Torenia thouarsii
  • Torenia parviflora
  • Torenia ramosissima
  • Torenia veronicifolia
  • Torenia pedunculata
  • Nortenia thouarsii
Common name
  • ε-tank-ε-fune (NWT) ma-tong-bunka (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • kusukusunyi (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • boma (NWT) fona (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • ngele-glo = the driver-away of sores (FCD) tσnui (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • rẹ̀kùrẹ̀kù (Verger) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for TORENIA parviflora De Wild. Var. brevipedicellata [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
TORENIA parviflora De Wild. Var. brevipedicellata [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, i. 73.
Information
Plant regularly dichotomously branched. Leaves rather shortly petiolate, broadly elliptic, 6 lin. long, 5 lin. broad, almost entire, acute, rounded or subobtuse at the base. Pedicels slender, 1 1/2–2 lin. long. Calyx 4–4 1/2 lin. long in fruit. Corolla unknown.
Distribution
Congo South Central between Léopoldville and Mombazi (Mbasi), Gillet, 2554.

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