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CALOCRATER Preussii K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
CALOCRATER Preussii K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 175, fig. 58, S-T.
Information
An undershrub, producing erect shoots, ultimately woody at the base and 2–3 ft. high, from a creeping rhizome, glabrous in all parts; stems terete with prominent lines on the sides alternating with the leaves. Leaves subsessile, oblong to lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, acute or subacuminate at the base, 4–7 in. long, 1 1/2–2 3/4 in. broad, pale green, herbaceous; secondary nerves 8–12 on each side, oblique; veins obscure. Flowers in few-flowered dense sessile axillary (pseudoaxillary?) clusters; bracts ovate, acute to caudate, up to 2 lin. long, herbaceous. Sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2–3 lin. long, herbaceous, with several minute basal glands within. Corolla white; tube over 2 in. long, slender, cylindric up to 8 lin. above the base then funnel-shaped-campanulate, about 3/4 in. wide at the mouth, quite glabrous except for a minute tuft of hairs below each anther; lobes somewhat asymmetric, about 7 lin. long, 8–9 lin. broad. Stamens inserted 7 lin. above the base, 2 3/4 lin. long. Style 4 1/2 lin. long, filiform; stigma cylindric, 2 lin. long, minutely apiculate.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Kombu Niugu, Preuss, 74!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
CALOCRATER Preussii K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 175, fig. 58, S-T.
Information
An undershrub, producing erect shoots, ultimately woody at the base and 2–3 ft. high, from a creeping rhizome, glabrous in all parts; stems terete with prominent lines on the sides alternating with the leaves. Leaves subsessile, oblong to lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, acute or subacuminate at the base, 4–7 in. long, 1 1/2–2 3/4 in. broad, pale green, herbaceous; secondary nerves 8–12 on each side, oblique; veins obscure. Flowers in few-flowered dense sessile axillary (pseudoaxillary?) clusters; bracts ovate, acute to caudate, up to 2 lin. long, herbaceous. Sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2–3 lin. long, herbaceous, with several minute basal glands within. Corolla white; tube over 2 in. long, slender, cylindric up to 8 lin. above the base then funnel-shaped-campanulate, about 3/4 in. wide at the mouth, quite glabrous except for a minute tuft of hairs below each anther; lobes somewhat asymmetric, about 7 lin. long, 8–9 lin. broad. Stamens inserted 7 lin. above the base, 2 3/4 lin. long. Style 4 1/2 lin. long, filiform; stigma cylindric, 2 lin. long, minutely apiculate.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Kombu Niugu, Preuss, 74!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
CALOCRATER Preussii K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 175, fig. 58, S-T.
Information
An undershrub, producing erect shoots, ultimately woody at the base and 2–3 ft. high, from a creeping rhizome, glabrous in all parts; stems terete with prominent lines on the sides alternating with the leaves. Leaves subsessile, oblong to lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, acute or subacuminate at the base, 4–7 in. long, 1 1/2–2 3/4 in. broad, pale green, herbaceous; secondary nerves 8–12 on each side, oblique; veins obscure. Flowers in few-flowered dense sessile axillary (pseudoaxillary?) clusters; bracts ovate, acute to caudate, up to 2 lin. long, herbaceous. Sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2–3 lin. long, herbaceous, with several minute basal glands within. Corolla white; tube over 2 in. long, slender, cylindric up to 8 lin. above the base then funnel-shaped-campanulate, about 3/4 in. wide at the mouth, quite glabrous except for a minute tuft of hairs below each anther; lobes somewhat asymmetric, about 7 lin. long, 8–9 lin. broad. Stamens inserted 7 lin. above the base, 2 3/4 lin. long. Style 4 1/2 lin. long, filiform; stigma cylindric, 2 lin. long, minutely apiculate.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Kombu Niugu, Preuss, 74!
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