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Vitex thyrsiflora

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Name

Identification
Vitex staudtii Gürke [family VERBENACEAE ] Verified by Moldenke, H.N., Vitex thyrsiflora Baker [family VERBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Vitex staudtii
  • Vitex thyrsiflora
Common name
  • bevui (NWT) govui (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • àánu (Verger) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • ε-sakin (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • sẽlda (Har.) veñbělê (Har.) (LIBERIA, MANO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • hovue (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for Vitex thyrsiflora Baker [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 273, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker and O. Stapf)
Names
Vitex thyrsiflora Baker [family LABIATAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 152.
Information
A tree; branchlets glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, 5-foliolate; leaflets distinctly stalked, obovate-oblong, cuspidate, almost membranous, green and glabrous on the upper surf ace, pale and slightly pubescent beneath, end one 6–8 in. long and 3–3 1/2 in. broad at the middle. Cymes forming an ample thyrsoid terminal panicle; pedicels short, pubescent; bracts small, linear. Calyx campanulate, 1/8 in. long; teeth small, deltoid. Corolla-tube twice the length of the calyx; lobes oblong. Stamens included.
Distribution
Lagos Upper Guinea Abeokuta, Harrison, 5! in the interior, without precise locality, Rowland!

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