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ALAFIA microstylis 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
ALAFIA microstylis K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in E.J. 23: 230 (1896); Pichon in B.J.B.B. 24: 1881, t. 4/e–f (1954); Kupicha in F.Z. 7 (2): 492 (1985); K.T.S.L.: 475 (1994); Leeuwenberg in K.B. 52 (4): 798, t. 8 (1997). Type: Uganda, sine loc., Stuhlmann 1262 (B†, syn.); near Entebbe, Stuhlmann 1474 (B†, syn.); neotype: Uganda, Mengo District, L. Victoria, Buvuma Is., Bagshawe 620 (K, neo., chosen by Pichon)
ALAFIA clusioides S. Moore [family APOCYNACEAE], in J.L.S. 37: 181 (1905). Type: Uganda, Mengo District, Lake Victoria, Buvuma Is., Bagshawe 620 (K, holo.)
ALAFIA swynnertonii S. Moore [family APOCYNACEAE], in J.L.S. 40: 141 (1911). Type: Mozambique, Madanda Forest, Swynnerton 1178 (BM, holo., K, iso.)
Information
Liana 3–15 m high with white latex; branches dark brown with large pale brown lenticels; branchlets glabrous or puberulous. Leaves petiolate; blade (narrowly) elliptic, 3–9 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, bluntly acuminate to obtuse at the apex, cuneateor rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides or puberulous beneath; with 11–14 pairs of rather straight secondary veins at an angle of 40–50° with the midrib; petiole 2–5 mm long, glabrous or puberulous. Inflorescence terminal, few- to many-flowered, 2–5 cm long, glabrous or puberulous; peduncle 1–18 mm long; bracts sepal-like; pedicels 5–15 mm long. Flowers with sepals ovate, up to 2.8 mm long, with 1–2 colleters near the edge inside; corolla white or greenish white; tube often partly reddish, throat red; mature bud with a narrowly ovoid head about twice as long as the tube; tube 4–6.5 mm long; lobes twisted in bud, spoon-like with a shallow concave apex, obliquely obovate or elliptic, 9–14.5 mm long, 3–5.5 mm wide, rounded at apex; stamens inserted 2.2–4 mm from the base; style 2–2.2 mm long. Fruit brown, 40–50 cm long, 0.5 cm in diameter; seed up to 15 mm long; coma 3 cm long.
Range
DISTR. U 2–4; K 4, 7; T 1, 3, 6, 8
Altitude range
0–1500 m
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District Kambe Kaya, 3 Mar. 1981, Hawthorne 26!;KENYA Lamu District Witu Forest, 16 Nov. 1988, Robertson & Luke 5505!;KENYA Kwale District Mrima Hill, 3 Feb. 1989, Mrima-Dzombo Expedition 33!TANZANIA Mwanza District Kibandala, Rubondo Is., Nov. 1954, Carmichael 463!;TANZANIA Pangani District Bushiri Sisal Estate, 14 Mar. 1950, Faulkner 549!;TANZANIA Ulanga District Msolwa Forest, 5 Feb. 1977, Vollesen 4393!UGANDA Ankole District near Kikagati, Kagera R., Sept. 1947, Dale U494!;UGANDA Toro District Sempaya Peak, Mar. 1943, St. Clair-Thompson F5247!;UGANDA Mengo District Kipayo Estate, 1914, Dümmer 712!
Distribution (external)
; E Congo (Kinshasa)
Mozambique
Notes
USES. None recorded
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
ALAFIA microstylis K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in E.J. 23: 230 (1896); Pichon in B.J.B.B. 24: 1881, t. 4/e–f (1954); Kupicha in F.Z. 7 (2): 492 (1985); K.T.S.L.: 475 (1994); Leeuwenberg in K.B. 52 (4): 798, t. 8 (1997). Type: Uganda, sine loc., Stuhlmann 1262 (B†, syn.); near Entebbe, Stuhlmann 1474 (B†, syn.); neotype: Uganda, Mengo District, L. Victoria, Buvuma Is., Bagshawe 620 (K, neo., chosen by Pichon)
ALAFIA clusioides S. Moore [family APOCYNACEAE], in J.L.S. 37: 181 (1905). Type: Uganda, Mengo District, Lake Victoria, Buvuma Is., Bagshawe 620 (K, holo.)
ALAFIA swynnertonii S. Moore [family APOCYNACEAE], in J.L.S. 40: 141 (1911). Type: Mozambique, Madanda Forest, Swynnerton 1178 (BM, holo., K, iso.)
Information
Liana 3–15 m high with white latex; branches dark brown with large pale brown lenticels; branchlets glabrous or puberulous. Leaves petiolate; blade (narrowly) elliptic, 3–9 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, bluntly acuminate to obtuse at the apex, cuneateor rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides or puberulous beneath; with 11–14 pairs of rather straight secondary veins at an angle of 40–50° with the midrib; petiole 2–5 mm long, glabrous or puberulous. Inflorescence terminal, few- to many-flowered, 2–5 cm long, glabrous or puberulous; peduncle 1–18 mm long; bracts sepal-like; pedicels 5–15 mm long. Flowers with sepals ovate, up to 2.8 mm long, with 1–2 colleters near the edge inside; corolla white or greenish white; tube often partly reddish, throat red; mature bud with a narrowly ovoid head about twice as long as the tube; tube 4–6.5 mm long; lobes twisted in bud, spoon-like with a shallow concave apex, obliquely obovate or elliptic, 9–14.5 mm long, 3–5.5 mm wide, rounded at apex; stamens inserted 2.2–4 mm from the base; style 2–2.2 mm long. Fruit brown, 40–50 cm long, 0.5 cm in diameter; seed up to 15 mm long; coma 3 cm long.
Range
DISTR. U 2–4; K 4, 7; T 1, 3, 6, 8
Altitude range
0–1500 m
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District Kambe Kaya, 3 Mar. 1981, Hawthorne 26!;KENYA Lamu District Witu Forest, 16 Nov. 1988, Robertson & Luke 5505!;KENYA Kwale District Mrima Hill, 3 Feb. 1989, Mrima-Dzombo Expedition 33!TANZANIA Mwanza District Kibandala, Rubondo Is., Nov. 1954, Carmichael 463!;TANZANIA Pangani District Bushiri Sisal Estate, 14 Mar. 1950, Faulkner 549!;TANZANIA Ulanga District Msolwa Forest, 5 Feb. 1977, Vollesen 4393!UGANDA Ankole District near Kikagati, Kagera R., Sept. 1947, Dale U494!;UGANDA Toro District Sempaya Peak, Mar. 1943, St. Clair-Thompson F5247!;UGANDA Mengo District Kipayo Estate, 1914, Dümmer 712!
Distribution (external)
; E Congo (Kinshasa)
Mozambique
Notes
USES. None recorded
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
ALAFIA microstylis K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in E.J. 23: 230 (1896); Pichon in B.J.B.B. 24: 1881, t. 4/e–f (1954); Kupicha in F.Z. 7 (2): 492 (1985); K.T.S.L.: 475 (1994); Leeuwenberg in K.B. 52 (4): 798, t. 8 (1997). Type: Uganda, sine loc., Stuhlmann 1262 (B†, syn.); near Entebbe, Stuhlmann 1474 (B†, syn.); neotype: Uganda, Mengo District, L. Victoria, Buvuma Is., Bagshawe 620 (K, neo., chosen by Pichon)
ALAFIA clusioides S. Moore [family APOCYNACEAE], in J.L.S. 37: 181 (1905). Type: Uganda, Mengo District, Lake Victoria, Buvuma Is., Bagshawe 620 (K, holo.)
ALAFIA swynnertonii S. Moore [family APOCYNACEAE], in J.L.S. 40: 141 (1911). Type: Mozambique, Madanda Forest, Swynnerton 1178 (BM, holo., K, iso.)
Information
Liana 3–15 m high with white latex; branches dark brown with large pale brown lenticels; branchlets glabrous or puberulous. Leaves petiolate; blade (narrowly) elliptic, 3–9 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, bluntly acuminate to obtuse at the apex, cuneateor rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides or puberulous beneath; with 11–14 pairs of rather straight secondary veins at an angle of 40–50° with the midrib; petiole 2–5 mm long, glabrous or puberulous. Inflorescence terminal, few- to many-flowered, 2–5 cm long, glabrous or puberulous; peduncle 1–18 mm long; bracts sepal-like; pedicels 5–15 mm long. Flowers with sepals ovate, up to 2.8 mm long, with 1–2 colleters near the edge inside; corolla white or greenish white; tube often partly reddish, throat red; mature bud with a narrowly ovoid head about twice as long as the tube; tube 4–6.5 mm long; lobes twisted in bud, spoon-like with a shallow concave apex, obliquely obovate or elliptic, 9–14.5 mm long, 3–5.5 mm wide, rounded at apex; stamens inserted 2.2–4 mm from the base; style 2–2.2 mm long. Fruit brown, 40–50 cm long, 0.5 cm in diameter; seed up to 15 mm long; coma 3 cm long.
Range
DISTR. U 2–4; K 4, 7; T 1, 3, 6, 8
Altitude range
0–1500 m
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District Kambe Kaya, 3 Mar. 1981, Hawthorne 26!;KENYA Lamu District Witu Forest, 16 Nov. 1988, Robertson & Luke 5505!;KENYA Kwale District Mrima Hill, 3 Feb. 1989, Mrima-Dzombo Expedition 33!TANZANIA Mwanza District Kibandala, Rubondo Is., Nov. 1954, Carmichael 463!;TANZANIA Pangani District Bushiri Sisal Estate, 14 Mar. 1950, Faulkner 549!;TANZANIA Ulanga District Msolwa Forest, 5 Feb. 1977, Vollesen 4393!UGANDA Ankole District near Kikagati, Kagera R., Sept. 1947, Dale U494!;UGANDA Toro District Sempaya Peak, Mar. 1943, St. Clair-Thompson F5247!;UGANDA Mengo District Kipayo Estate, 1914, Dümmer 712!
Distribution (external)
; E Congo (Kinshasa)
Mozambique
Notes
USES. None recorded
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