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Uvaria parviflora

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Name

Identification
Uvaria parviflora A. Rich. [family ANNONACEAE ] Verified by Johnson, D.M., Xylopia longipetala De Wild. & T.Durand [family ANNONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Sapranthus microcarpus
  • Cyathostemma hookeri
  • Uvaria parviflora
  • Xylopia longipetala
  • Unona parviflora
  • Desmopsis galeottiana
Common name
  • Small-flowered pawpaw, Flora of North America Vol. 3
  • small-fruited pawpaw, Flora of North America Vol. 3
  • dwarf pawpaw, Flora of North America Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for XYLOPIA parviflora Benth. [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
XYLOPIA parviflora Benth. [family ANNONACEAE], in Linn. Trans. xxiii. 479.
Uvaria parviflora Guill. et Perr. [family ANNONACEAE], Fl. Seneg. 9. t. 3.
Cœlocline parviflora A. DC. [family ], Mém. Anon. 33.
Information
A shrub attaining 20 ft. in height, the extremities glabrous or at first minutely pubescent. Leaves oblong-elliptical, rather obtuse, often shortly and obtusely acuminate, rather coriaceous, sparsely pubescent or glabrate beneath, 1 1/2–3 in. long, 10–15 lines broad. Flowers on very short pedicels or subsessile; buds silky, narrow-conical. Outer petals about 1/2 in. long in our specimens; inner petals linear-subulate, from a slightly dilated, concave, cuneately-clawed base. Carpels about 16; stigmas tipped with a few bristle-like hairs; ovules several. Fruit-carpels oblong, thick, subsessile, 1–1 1/2 in. long, nearly 1/2 in. diam., usually with several (1–6) transverse seeds.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Leprieur and Perrottet;Niger Upper Guinea T. Vogel! Bagroo river, Mann!
Notes
Nearly allied to this plant or to X. acutiflora must be Cœlocline? oxypetala, A. DC. Mém. Anon. 33 (Unona oxypetala, DC. Syst. Veg. i. 496), from Sierra Leone, Afzelius. It is described with the extremities rusty-pilose, with spreading hairs, glabrescent. Leaves oval-oblong, acuminate; midrib beneath pubescent. Pedicels axillary, very short. Calyx-lobes broad, obtuse. Petals linear, acuminate, equal, nearly 1 in. long.

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