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Cola gigas Bak. f. [family STERCULIACEAE]
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
Cola gigas Bak. f. [family STERCULIACEAE], in Cat.Talb. 10, t. 3, 1–4 (1913).
Cola lanata Bak. f. ex Hutch.& Dalz. [family STERCULIACEAE], F.W.T.A., ed1, 1: 256 (1928); Kew Bull1928: 298
Chlamydocola gigas (Bak. f.) Bodard [family STERCULIACEAE], in JAgrTropBotAppliq1: 314 (1954), excldescr& figof fruit (Cola gigas has 4 carpels in flower and is scarcely likely to have a fruit with 12 carpels as shown by Bodard).
Information
Foresttree, to 40 ft. high, cauliflorous; flowers deep red; young shoots densely woolly, becoming nearly glabrous.
Habitat
Forest
Distribution
S. Nig. Oban (Oct.) Talbot 160! 411! 1244! 1299!
Notes
[The type of C. lanata at Kew is numbered Talbot 1299, but it is clearly a duplicate of Talbot 1244 at the British Museum, the number 1299 being an error of copying.]
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
Cola gigas Bak. f. [family STERCULIACEAE], in Cat.Talb. 10, t. 3, 1–4 (1913).
Cola lanata Bak. f. ex Hutch.& Dalz. [family STERCULIACEAE], F.W.T.A., ed1, 1: 256 (1928); Kew Bull1928: 298
Chlamydocola gigas (Bak. f.) Bodard [family STERCULIACEAE], in JAgrTropBotAppliq1: 314 (1954), excldescr& figof fruit (Cola gigas has 4 carpels in flower and is scarcely likely to have a fruit with 12 carpels as shown by Bodard).
Information
Foresttree, to 40 ft. high, cauliflorous; flowers deep red; young shoots densely woolly, becoming nearly glabrous.
Habitat
Forest
Distribution
S. Nig. Oban (Oct.) Talbot 160! 411! 1244! 1299!
Notes
[The type of C. lanata at Kew is numbered Talbot 1299, but it is clearly a duplicate of Talbot 1244 at the British Museum, the number 1299 being an error of copying.]
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
Cola gigas Bak. f. [family STERCULIACEAE], in Cat.Talb. 10, t. 3, 1–4 (1913).
Cola lanata Bak. f. ex Hutch.& Dalz. [family STERCULIACEAE], F.W.T.A., ed1, 1: 256 (1928); Kew Bull1928: 298
Chlamydocola gigas (Bak. f.) Bodard [family STERCULIACEAE], in JAgrTropBotAppliq1: 314 (1954), excldescr& figof fruit (Cola gigas has 4 carpels in flower and is scarcely likely to have a fruit with 12 carpels as shown by Bodard).
Information
Foresttree, to 40 ft. high, cauliflorous; flowers deep red; young shoots densely woolly, becoming nearly glabrous.
Habitat
Forest
Distribution
S. Nig. Oban (Oct.) Talbot 160! 411! 1244! 1299!
Notes
[The type of C. lanata at Kew is numbered Talbot 1299, but it is clearly a duplicate of Talbot 1244 at the British Museum, the number 1299 being an error of copying.]
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