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STEPHANOSTEMA stenocarpum K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2002) Author: E.A. OMINO
Names
STEPHANOSTEMA stenocarpum K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in E.J. 34: 325 (1904); T.T.C.L.: 55 (1949); Barink in Meded. Landbouwhogeschool 83 (7): 42, t. 6, phot. 2–5 (1983). Types: Tanzania, Uzaramo District, Sachsenwald, near Dar es Salaam, Engler 2156 (B†, holo.); neotype: Dar es Salaam, Gongolamboto, Wingfield 4224 (K!, neo.; DSM, EA, MO, isoneo., chosen by Barink)
Information
Erect shrub 0.25–2 m high, with white latex; bark rough, dark brown with pale lenticels, glabrous, branchlets red to brown, terete, often sulcate when dry, sparsely and minutely pubescent. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate, obovate or elliptic, 4.8–9.5 cm long, 1.7–3.7 cm wide, acuminate at the apex, rounded or cuneate at the base, glabrous; petiole 2–3 mm long. Inflorescence lax, 1.5–2 cm long, glabrous on all parts; bracts up to 2 mm long, acute, with colleters within; peduncle 2.5–3 mm long; pedicels 5–9 mm long. Flowers with sepals ovate, 0.8–1.5 mm long, acute, glabrous; corolla tube yellow, 3–4 mm long; lobes 4.2–5 mm long, 2.5–2.8 mm wide, rounded; corona white, 3 mm long, undulate; pistil 4–4.5 mm long; style filiform, 2.2 mm long, glabrous; ovules about 18 in each carpel. Fruit pale green to pale grey, 10–15 cm long, 3–5 mm wide; seeds 9–10 mm long; coma 18–20 mm. Fig. 26 (p. 74).
Range
DISTR. T 6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
0–60 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Uzaramo District Dar es Salaam Airport, 10 Aug. 1969, Harris 3071! & Gongolamboto Graveyard on Kisarawe road near the Airport, 1 Jan. 1986, Lovett 500! & 10 Aug. 1993, Luke et al. 3754!
Notes
USES. None recorded. Cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and at Wageningen Botanic Gardens.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2002) Author: E.A. OMINO
Names
STEPHANOSTEMA stenocarpum K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in E.J. 34: 325 (1904); T.T.C.L.: 55 (1949); Barink in Meded. Landbouwhogeschool 83 (7): 42, t. 6, phot. 2–5 (1983). Types: Tanzania, Uzaramo District, Sachsenwald, near Dar es Salaam, Engler 2156 (B†, holo.); neotype: Dar es Salaam, Gongolamboto, Wingfield 4224 (K!, neo.; DSM, EA, MO, isoneo., chosen by Barink)
Information
Erect shrub 0.25–2 m high, with white latex; bark rough, dark brown with pale lenticels, glabrous, branchlets red to brown, terete, often sulcate when dry, sparsely and minutely pubescent. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate, obovate or elliptic, 4.8–9.5 cm long, 1.7–3.7 cm wide, acuminate at the apex, rounded or cuneate at the base, glabrous; petiole 2–3 mm long. Inflorescence lax, 1.5–2 cm long, glabrous on all parts; bracts up to 2 mm long, acute, with colleters within; peduncle 2.5–3 mm long; pedicels 5–9 mm long. Flowers with sepals ovate, 0.8–1.5 mm long, acute, glabrous; corolla tube yellow, 3–4 mm long; lobes 4.2–5 mm long, 2.5–2.8 mm wide, rounded; corona white, 3 mm long, undulate; pistil 4–4.5 mm long; style filiform, 2.2 mm long, glabrous; ovules about 18 in each carpel. Fruit pale green to pale grey, 10–15 cm long, 3–5 mm wide; seeds 9–10 mm long; coma 18–20 mm. Fig. 26 (p. 74).
Range
DISTR. T 6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
0–60 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Uzaramo District Dar es Salaam Airport, 10 Aug. 1969, Harris 3071! & Gongolamboto Graveyard on Kisarawe road near the Airport, 1 Jan. 1986, Lovett 500! & 10 Aug. 1993, Luke et al. 3754!
Notes
USES. None recorded. Cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and at Wageningen Botanic Gardens.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2002) Author: E.A. OMINO
Names
STEPHANOSTEMA stenocarpum K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in E.J. 34: 325 (1904); T.T.C.L.: 55 (1949); Barink in Meded. Landbouwhogeschool 83 (7): 42, t. 6, phot. 2–5 (1983). Types: Tanzania, Uzaramo District, Sachsenwald, near Dar es Salaam, Engler 2156 (B†, holo.); neotype: Dar es Salaam, Gongolamboto, Wingfield 4224 (K!, neo.; DSM, EA, MO, isoneo., chosen by Barink)
Information
Erect shrub 0.25–2 m high, with white latex; bark rough, dark brown with pale lenticels, glabrous, branchlets red to brown, terete, often sulcate when dry, sparsely and minutely pubescent. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate, obovate or elliptic, 4.8–9.5 cm long, 1.7–3.7 cm wide, acuminate at the apex, rounded or cuneate at the base, glabrous; petiole 2–3 mm long. Inflorescence lax, 1.5–2 cm long, glabrous on all parts; bracts up to 2 mm long, acute, with colleters within; peduncle 2.5–3 mm long; pedicels 5–9 mm long. Flowers with sepals ovate, 0.8–1.5 mm long, acute, glabrous; corolla tube yellow, 3–4 mm long; lobes 4.2–5 mm long, 2.5–2.8 mm wide, rounded; corona white, 3 mm long, undulate; pistil 4–4.5 mm long; style filiform, 2.2 mm long, glabrous; ovules about 18 in each carpel. Fruit pale green to pale grey, 10–15 cm long, 3–5 mm wide; seeds 9–10 mm long; coma 18–20 mm. Fig. 26 (p. 74).
Range
DISTR. T 6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
0–60 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Uzaramo District Dar es Salaam Airport, 10 Aug. 1969, Harris 3071! & Gongolamboto Graveyard on Kisarawe road near the Airport, 1 Jan. 1986, Lovett 500! & 10 Aug. 1993, Luke et al. 3754!
Notes
USES. None recorded. Cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and at Wageningen Botanic Gardens.
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