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AMANOA strobilacea Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
AMANOA strobilacea Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora, 1864, 515. —Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 220; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 648.
Information
A tree 30 ft. high, glabrous in all parts. Leaves oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, obtusely acuminate, deltoid at the base, 3–7 in. long, 1–2 1/2 in. broad, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8–12 on each side, looped, faintly impressed above, conspicuous below; veins lax, conspicuous below; petiole smooth or very slightly wrinkled, 4–5 lin. long; stipules adnate to the base of the petiole, 2 1/2 lin. long, coriaceous. Flowers in subglobose terminal and axillary sessile heads surrounded by coriaceous bracts; bracts coriaceous, outer keeled and mucronate, inner doubly keeled; bracteoles lanceolate, acutely apiculate, membranous. Male flowers: Sepals oblong, apex slightly hooded, 3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad. Petals very broadly obovate or suborbicular, 3/4 lin. long. Disk undulate, glabrous. Stamens free to the base; filaments about 1 lin. long; anthers 1 1/2 lin. long. Rudimentary ovary trilobed, glabrous. Female flowers: Sepals as in the male. Petals elliptic, 1 1/4 lin. long Disk as in the male. Ovary subglobose, glabrous; stigma discoid. Immature capsule ovoid, about 5 lin. in diam., glabrous, tipped by the persistent stigma.
Distribution
Liberia Upper Guinea Sino Basin, Whyte!Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon River, Mann, 745! 2220!
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 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
AMANOA strobilacea Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora, 1864, 515. —Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 220; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 648.
Information
A tree 30 ft. high, glabrous in all parts. Leaves oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, obtusely acuminate, deltoid at the base, 3–7 in. long, 1–2 1/2 in. broad, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8–12 on each side, looped, faintly impressed above, conspicuous below; veins lax, conspicuous below; petiole smooth or very slightly wrinkled, 4–5 lin. long; stipules adnate to the base of the petiole, 2 1/2 lin. long, coriaceous. Flowers in subglobose terminal and axillary sessile heads surrounded by coriaceous bracts; bracts coriaceous, outer keeled and mucronate, inner doubly keeled; bracteoles lanceolate, acutely apiculate, membranous. Male flowers: Sepals oblong, apex slightly hooded, 3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad. Petals very broadly obovate or suborbicular, 3/4 lin. long. Disk undulate, glabrous. Stamens free to the base; filaments about 1 lin. long; anthers 1 1/2 lin. long. Rudimentary ovary trilobed, glabrous. Female flowers: Sepals as in the male. Petals elliptic, 1 1/4 lin. long Disk as in the male. Ovary subglobose, glabrous; stigma discoid. Immature capsule ovoid, about 5 lin. in diam., glabrous, tipped by the persistent stigma.
Distribution
Liberia Upper Guinea Sino Basin, Whyte!Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon River, Mann, 745! 2220!
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 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
AMANOA strobilacea Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora, 1864, 515. —Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 220; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 648.
Information
A tree 30 ft. high, glabrous in all parts. Leaves oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, obtusely acuminate, deltoid at the base, 3–7 in. long, 1–2 1/2 in. broad, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8–12 on each side, looped, faintly impressed above, conspicuous below; veins lax, conspicuous below; petiole smooth or very slightly wrinkled, 4–5 lin. long; stipules adnate to the base of the petiole, 2 1/2 lin. long, coriaceous. Flowers in subglobose terminal and axillary sessile heads surrounded by coriaceous bracts; bracts coriaceous, outer keeled and mucronate, inner doubly keeled; bracteoles lanceolate, acutely apiculate, membranous. Male flowers: Sepals oblong, apex slightly hooded, 3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad. Petals very broadly obovate or suborbicular, 3/4 lin. long. Disk undulate, glabrous. Stamens free to the base; filaments about 1 lin. long; anthers 1 1/2 lin. long. Rudimentary ovary trilobed, glabrous. Female flowers: Sepals as in the male. Petals elliptic, 1 1/4 lin. long Disk as in the male. Ovary subglobose, glabrous; stigma discoid. Immature capsule ovoid, about 5 lin. in diam., glabrous, tipped by the persistent stigma.
Distribution
Liberia Upper Guinea Sino Basin, Whyte!Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon River, Mann, 745! 2220!
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