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Motandra guineensis

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Motandra pyramidalis Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] Motandra guineensis (Thonn.) A.DC. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Molopanthua paniculata
  • Motandra altissima
  • Echites paniculata
  • Echites guineensis
  • Motandra rostrata
  • Motandra pyramidalis
  • Motandra guineensis
Common name
  • gala kuku (K&B) (IVORY COAST, KRU-BETE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • agba (B&D) (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • goléakoyon (B&D) grakwè (B&D) urobéné (K&B) (IVORY COAST, KWENI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • goléa kwoyon (B&D) (IVORY COAST, GUERE (Chiehn)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • a-mamfohae (auctt.) (GHANA, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • yolo (def. yolei) also applied to several other plants (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • agba doje (Kennedy) bọ́dẹkádún (AHU) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dshingia (Gaisser) tshingia (Gaisser) (TOGO, TEM (Tshaudjo)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • amaleniana (B&D) (IVORY COAST, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • golia (B&D) yéré-yéré (B&D) yurubini (K&B) (IVORY COAST, OAGU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for MOTANDRA guineensis A. DC. [family APOCYNACEAE]
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 24, (1904) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
MOTANDRA guineensis A. DC. [family APOCYNACEAE], Prod. viii. 423. —K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 164; De Wild. & Durand, Contr. Fl. Congo, i. 41 and ii. 41, and Reliq. Dewevr. 155.
Echites guineensis Thonn. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 149.
Echites paniculata Thonn. ex A.DC. [family APOCYNACEAE], l.c.
Motandra sp Hua [family APOCYNACEAE], in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. viii. (1902), 480.
Information
A small, more or less scandent shrub; young branches slender, densely fulvo-tomentose, ultimately glabrescent and reddish-brown. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate or obovate, acuminate, (acumen short or up to 3/4 in. long, narrow), obtuse at the base, 2–4 in. long, 1–1 3/4 in. broad, fulvo-tomen-tose in bud, soon glabrescent, with tufts of hairs in the nerve-axils; secondary nerves 5–7 on each side; veins faint; petiole tomentose, 2–3 lin. long. Panicle 1–6 in. long, 1 in. broad, usually linear or lanceolate in outline when more than 1 in. long, fulvo-tomentose all over; peduncle very short or up to 1 in. long; bracts subulate, small; pedicels up to 3 lin. long. Calyx 3/4 lin. long, tomentose. Corolla white, fragrant, almost subulate in bud; tube 1 1/4 lin. long, minutely puberulous without; lobes up to 2 lin. long. Follicles divaricate, lanceolate, acuminate, with the acute acumen slightly incurved, densely tomentose, 4 in. long.
Distribution
Congo South Central Upper Congo; Kasongo, Dewèvre, 995. Stanleyville, Demeuse, 423!Gold Coast Upper Guinea Aquapim, Thonning; Aburi Hills, Brown, in Herb. Johnson, 684! Kwahu, Johnson, 642!Dahomey Upper Guinea Bassila, Poisson!Lagos Upper Guinea near Lagos, Millen, 145! Ibadan Road, Millen, 114! Oyo, Barter, 3411! Interior, Rowland! Millson, 16!Nigeria Upper Guinea Onitsa, Barter, 1636!Cameroons Upper Guinea Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 794! Batanga, Bates, 403!
Notes
This contains a very full description of the fruit and seed.

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