USTERIA guineensis Willd. [family ]

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 503, (1904) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
USTERIA guineensis Willd. [family ], A. DC. Prod. ix. 22. —Konig & Sims, Ann. Bot. i. 363, t. 7, fig. 3; Hook. Niger Fl., 459, t. 45; Ic. Pl. t. 795.
USTERIA volubilis Afzel. [family ], Gen. Pl. Guin. 27 with fig.
Information
A climbing shrub; stems 8–10 ft. long; branchlets glabrous. Leaves ovate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous, penninerved; lower 3–4 in. long; petiole short; stipule reduced to a mere line. Cymes arranged in copious simple broad axillary and terminal panicles; pedicels short; bracts ovate, minute. Produced lobe of calyx linear-oblong, 1/6– 1/4 in. long. Corolla white; tube 1/4 in. long; lobes 1/8– 1/12 in. long. Stamens as long as the Corolla-lobes. Style exserted.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot, 597! Leprieur, Perottet.Gambia Upper Guinea Brown-Lester, 837!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Bunce Island, Kirk! Sugarloaf Mountain, 1000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 4025! Samu Count y, Scott-Elliot, 4243! near Kitchom, Scott-Elliot, 4317! near Kafogo, Scott-Elliot, 5497! and without precise locality, Don! Afzelius.Lagos Upper Guinea near Lagos, Rowland! Yewa Mata, Punch, 75 partly! Ebute Metta, Millen, 23! Iton, Rowland!Nigeria Upper Guinea Nun River, Mann, 460!
USTERIA guineensis Willd. [family ]
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