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Usteria volubilis

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Identification
Usteria guineensis Willd. [family LOGANIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg,A.J.M., Usteria volubilis Afzel. [family LOGANIACEAE ] Verified by Leeuwenberg,A.J.M.,
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Flora

Entry for USTERIA guineensis Willd. [family ]
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
USTERIA guineensis Willd. [family ], A. DC. Prod. ix. 22. —Konig & Sims, Ann. Bot. i. 363, t. 7, fig. 3; Hook. Niger Fl., 459, t. 45; Ic. Pl. t. 795.
USTERIA volubilis Afzel. [family ], Gen. Pl. Guin. 27 with fig.
Information
A climbing shrub; stems 8–10 ft. long; branchlets glabrous. Leaves ovate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous, penninerved; lower 3–4 in. long; petiole short; stipule reduced to a mere line. Cymes arranged in copious simple broad axillary and terminal panicles; pedicels short; bracts ovate, minute. Produced lobe of calyx linear-oblong, 1/6– 1/4 in. long. Corolla white; tube 1/4 in. long; lobes 1/8– 1/12 in. long. Stamens as long as the Corolla-lobes. Style exserted.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot, 597! Leprieur, Perottet.Gambia Upper Guinea Brown-Lester, 837!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Bunce Island, Kirk! Sugarloaf Mountain, 1000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 4025! Samu Count y, Scott-Elliot, 4243! near Kitchom, Scott-Elliot, 4317! near Kafogo, Scott-Elliot, 5497! and without precise locality, Don! Afzelius.Lagos Upper Guinea near Lagos, Rowland! Yewa Mata, Punch, 75 partly! Ebute Metta, Millen, 23! Iton, Rowland!Nigeria Upper Guinea Nun River, Mann, 460!

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