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CORDIA platythyrsa Baker [family BORAGINACEAE]
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 IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CORDIA platythyrsa Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27.
CORDIA populifolia Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c.
CORDIA lrvingii Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c. 1895, 113, partly.
CORDIA odorata Gürke [family BORAGINACEAE], in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 59.
Information
A tree 30–80 ft. high; branchlets pubescent. Leaves ovate to suborbicular, up to 5 in. long and 4 1/4 in. broad, shortly acuminate, obtuse at the base, irregularly crenate or almost entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; lateral nerves about 5 on each side; petiole 1 1/2–2 in. long. Cymes in a terminal ample divaricately branched panicle; branches and short pedicels densely pubescent; flowers polygamous. Calyx 2 lin. long, funnel-shaped, densely pubescent outside, not sulcate; lobes 3–5, oblong, obtuse. Corolla funnel-shaped; lobes 4–5, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 3–5, inserted in the corolla-throat; filaments hairy below their insertion. Fruit oblong, acute, glabrous, 6 lin. long, seated on the enlarged campanulate calyx.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Bagru River, Mann, 875!Gaboon Lower Guinea Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 390! 451.Lagos Upper Guinea Abeokuta, Irving!Cameroons Upper Guinea Bipinde, Zenker, 1710! 1856! 2200! Yaunde, Zenker, 247! Zenker & Staudt, 340!
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 IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CORDIA platythyrsa Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27.
CORDIA populifolia Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c.
CORDIA lrvingii Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c. 1895, 113, partly.
CORDIA odorata Gürke [family BORAGINACEAE], in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 59.
Information
A tree 30–80 ft. high; branchlets pubescent. Leaves ovate to suborbicular, up to 5 in. long and 4 1/4 in. broad, shortly acuminate, obtuse at the base, irregularly crenate or almost entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; lateral nerves about 5 on each side; petiole 1 1/2–2 in. long. Cymes in a terminal ample divaricately branched panicle; branches and short pedicels densely pubescent; flowers polygamous. Calyx 2 lin. long, funnel-shaped, densely pubescent outside, not sulcate; lobes 3–5, oblong, obtuse. Corolla funnel-shaped; lobes 4–5, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 3–5, inserted in the corolla-throat; filaments hairy below their insertion. Fruit oblong, acute, glabrous, 6 lin. long, seated on the enlarged campanulate calyx.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Bagru River, Mann, 875!Gaboon Lower Guinea Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 390! 451.Lagos Upper Guinea Abeokuta, Irving!Cameroons Upper Guinea Bipinde, Zenker, 1710! 1856! 2200! Yaunde, Zenker, 247! Zenker & Staudt, 340!
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 IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CORDIA platythyrsa Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27.
CORDIA populifolia Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c.
CORDIA lrvingii Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c. 1895, 113, partly.
CORDIA odorata Gürke [family BORAGINACEAE], in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 59.
Information
A tree 30–80 ft. high; branchlets pubescent. Leaves ovate to suborbicular, up to 5 in. long and 4 1/4 in. broad, shortly acuminate, obtuse at the base, irregularly crenate or almost entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; lateral nerves about 5 on each side; petiole 1 1/2–2 in. long. Cymes in a terminal ample divaricately branched panicle; branches and short pedicels densely pubescent; flowers polygamous. Calyx 2 lin. long, funnel-shaped, densely pubescent outside, not sulcate; lobes 3–5, oblong, obtuse. Corolla funnel-shaped; lobes 4–5, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 3–5, inserted in the corolla-throat; filaments hairy below their insertion. Fruit oblong, acute, glabrous, 6 lin. long, seated on the enlarged campanulate calyx.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Bagru River, Mann, 875!Gaboon Lower Guinea Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 390! 451.Lagos Upper Guinea Abeokuta, Irving!Cameroons Upper Guinea Bipinde, Zenker, 1710! 1856! 2200! Yaunde, Zenker, 247! Zenker & Staudt, 340!
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