Entry for UNONA parvifolia Oliv. [family ANNONACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 13, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
UNONA parvifoliaOliv. [family ANNONACEAE]
Information
A scandent shrub often with long weak branches. Extremities rusty-pubescent. Leaves firmly membranous or subcoriaceous, oblanceolate- or obovate-oblong or elliptical-oblong, obtuse shortly and obtusely pointed or somewhat emarginate, obtuse or rounded at the base, minutely punctate and glabrate above, glabrescent with the midrib pubescent-pilose beneath, varying from 3/4–3 1/2 in. in length, on petioles of 1–2 lines. Flowers usually solitary, on slender leaf-opposed or extra-axillary pedicels of 1/4– 3/4 in. Bracts very small, linear or lanceolate, near the base of the pedicels. Sepals nearly free, broadly ovate-rotundate. Outer petals broadly ovate, exceeding the inner elliptical petals. Anthers truncate, the connective rather broadly dilated. Carpels 12–15. Ovaries glabrous; stigma sessile, obtuse or subcapitate; ovules about 4–6, uniseriate. Fruit-carpels scarlet, 1–4-seeded, cylindrical-torulose, apiculate or obtuse, on stipes of 1–2 lines.
