Entry for XYLOPIA parviflora Benth. [family ANNONACEAE]
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.
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.