mongmoi (GFSE) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
tol-ε-ro-kant (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
Flora
Entry for SYMMERIA paniculata Benth. [family POLYGONACEAE]
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 98, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
SYMMERIA paniculataBenth. [family POLYGONACEAE], in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 630. —Meisn. in Linnæa, xxi. 266, in DC. Prodr. xiv. 186, and in Mart. Fl. Bras. v. i. 46, t. 23; Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 95.
Information
A shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Branchlets terete, woody. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, obtuse, cordate or cuneate at the base, 6–9 in. long; main veins arcuate, raised nearly to the edge; petiole short, clasping the branch at the base. Male flowers in an ample terminal panicle; branches many, long, spreading, slender; flowers small, in few-flowered sessile clusters spaced out on the branches. Female flowers shortly pedicelled. Female perianth coriaceous, trigonous, 6–7 lin. long.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot, 334!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea near Kambia, Scott-Elliot, 4467! near Mandira, Limba Country and Kahrini (Karena), Scott-Elliot, 5562! 5573!
