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Beilschmiedia preussii

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Identification
Beilschmiedia preussii Engl. [family LAURACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
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Flora

Entry for TYLOSTEMON Preussii Stapf [family LAURACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 171, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
TYLOSTEMON Preussii Stapf [family LAURACEAE]
Beilschmiedia Preussii Engl. [family LAURACEAE], Jahrb. xxvi. 387, t. ix. fig. C.
Afrodaphne Preussii Stapf [family ], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxviii. 111.
Information
A shrub with glabrous green branchlets. Leaves lanceolate, long-acuminate (acumen up to 10 lin. long), acute at the base, up to 10 in. by not quite 3 in., thin; lateral nerves 7–8 on each side, ascending; petiole terete, deeply channelled, about 5 lin. long. Panicles as long as the leaves, very shortly rusty-pubescent, lax, with long slender branches; pedicels as long as the flowers or slightly longer. Perianth 3/4 lin. in diam., wide-turbinate, hairy within and without; segments ovate, under 1/2 lin. long, with long hairs at the base of the filaments. Extrorse stamens with a suborbicular 2-lobed gland on each side of the base; staminodes reduced to ovate glands. Ovary long-hairy, passing into a short conoid style.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea in open forest between Victoria and Bimbia, Preuss, 1272.

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