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Alafia scandens (Thonning) De Wild. [family APOCYNACEAE]

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 2,
Names
Alafia scandens (Thonning) De Wild. [family APOCYNACEAE], Not. Apoc. laticif. Congo 15 (1903); Pichon l.c. 50, t. 3, fig. 31, 32. Nerium scandens Thonning [family APOCYNACEAE], (1827). Holarrhena landolphioides A. DC. [family APOCYNACEAE], (1844). Alafia landolphioides (A. DC.) K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], (1895)-F.T.A. 4, 1: 197.
Information
Climbing shrub of 50-65 ft. with many-flowered corymbose inflorescences; follicles in fruit 14-20 in.long; in moist forest.
Habitat
; in moist forest.
Distribution
Sen.: Casamance (Jan.) Chev. 2671!Gam.: Whitfield.Port. G.: Cantankez (Feb.) d’Orey 284!Guin.: Rio Nunez Heudelot 626! Bénary Is. Heudelot 776. Bayas country Heudelot 777. Lamiah Paroisse 29. Koukoré (Sept.) Pobéguin 1198!S. L.: Mano (May) Deighton 4624! Bunce Isl. (fr. Mar.) Kirk 5! Port Loko (fl. 8 fr. Jan.) Deighton 1047! Kambia, Magbema (Feb.) Jordan 391! Ninia, Talla Hills (Feb.) Sc. Elliot 4809!Ghana: Sekondi (Dec.) Johnson 895! Achimota (Apr.) Irvine 1422! Krepi, Volta R. (Jan.) Johnson 561! Puliano to Asare (Apr.) Thompson 59! Abokobi to Biabase (fl. 8 fr. Dec.) Adams 3637!Togo Rep.: Lomé Warnecke 110! 333!Dah.: (Jan.) Poisson 01·3-1!N. Nig.: Patti Lokoja (fl. 8 fr. Mar.) Elliott 33!S. Nig.: Lagos Barter 2218! Abeokuta Irving 145! Asaba (fl. 8 fr. Apr.) Unwin 7!
Distribution (external)
the Congos

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 2,
Names
Alafia scandens (Thonning) De Wild. [family APOCYNACEAE], Not. Apoc. laticif. Congo 15 (1903); Pichon l.c. 50, t. 3, fig. 31, 32. Nerium scandens Thonning [family APOCYNACEAE], (1827). Holarrhena landolphioides A. DC. [family APOCYNACEAE], (1844). Alafia landolphioides (A. DC.) K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], (1895)-F.T.A. 4, 1: 197.
Information
Climbing shrub of 50-65 ft. with many-flowered corymbose inflorescences; follicles in fruit 14-20 in.long; in moist forest.
Habitat
; in moist forest.
Distribution
Sen.: Casamance (Jan.) Chev. 2671!Gam.: Whitfield.Port. G.: Cantankez (Feb.) d’Orey 284!Guin.: Rio Nunez Heudelot 626! Bénary Is. Heudelot 776. Bayas country Heudelot 777. Lamiah Paroisse 29. Koukoré (Sept.) Pobéguin 1198!S. L.: Mano (May) Deighton 4624! Bunce Isl. (fr. Mar.) Kirk 5! Port Loko (fl. 8 fr. Jan.) Deighton 1047! Kambia, Magbema (Feb.) Jordan 391! Ninia, Talla Hills (Feb.) Sc. Elliot 4809!Ghana: Sekondi (Dec.) Johnson 895! Achimota (Apr.) Irvine 1422! Krepi, Volta R. (Jan.) Johnson 561! Puliano to Asare (Apr.) Thompson 59! Abokobi to Biabase (fl. 8 fr. Dec.) Adams 3637!Togo Rep.: Lomé Warnecke 110! 333!Dah.: (Jan.) Poisson 01·3-1!N. Nig.: Patti Lokoja (fl. 8 fr. Mar.) Elliott 33!S. Nig.: Lagos Barter 2218! Abeokuta Irving 145! Asaba (fl. 8 fr. Apr.) Unwin 7!
Distribution (external)
the Congos
Alafia scandens (Thonning) De Wild. [family APOCYNACEAE]
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