DURANTA Plumieri Jacq. [family VERBENACEAE]

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
DURANTA Plumieri Jacq. [family VERBENACEAE], Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 615. —Bot. Reg. t. 244; Gürke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 338.
DURANTA repens Linn. [family VERBENACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 637.
DURANTA erecta Linn. [family VERBENACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 637.
Information
A shrub 5–10 ft. high, with glabrous or finely pubescent branchlets, unarmed or spinous. Leaves opposite, distinctly petioled, oblong, acute or obtuse, entire or inciso-crenate. Flowers in copious long terminal racemes; bracts linear. Flower-calyx 1/8– 1/6 in. long. Corolla bright lilac, more than twice as long as the calyx; lobes suborbicular, pubescent inside; expanded limb 1/4– 1/3 in. diam. Drupe yellow, the size of a pea, much shorter than the closed accrescent calyx.
Range
A native of Tropical America, now widely spread in the Old World.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Welwitsch, 5760!Mozamb. Dist. Lake region: Ukira and Issanjo (ex Gürke).British East Africa Nile Land Niamniam; by the Atasilli Brook, Schweinfurth, 3154!Congo South Central Monbuttu; Munza, Schweinfurth, 3456!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Sherboro Island, Garrett in Herb. Scott-Elliot, 4846! 5853! Waterloo, Kirk! and without precise locality, Barter!Lagos Upper Guinea Moloney!Niger Upper Guinea Old Calabar River, Kalbreyer, 209!
DURANTA Plumieri Jacq. [family VERBENACEAE]
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