Urera sansibaricaEngl. [family URTICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Urera sansibarica
Flora
Entry for URERA sansibarica Engl. [family URTICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 2, page 240, (1917)
Names
URERA sansibaricaEngl. [family URTICACEAE], Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 162.
Information
A climbing shrub 13 ft. long; stem stout, densely covered with numerous broad branched outgrowths bearing stinging hairs, surface of stem also densely hairy. Leaves shortly stalked, thick in texture, elliptic to ovate, weakly acuminate, base cordate, margin closely dentate, teeth blunt, with 3 lateral ascending nerves on each side above the 3-nerved base, 3–4 in. long, 1 3/4–2 1/3 in. wide, upper face rough with dense white appressed hairs and numerous dot-like cystoliths, lower face bearing a dense short grey-white tomentum between the conspicuous network of veins; petiole 6–10 lin. long, bearing numerous simple or 2–3-fid outgrowths smaller than but similar to those on the stem. Female inflorescence dense, much branched, exceeding the petiole, with numerous stinging hairs. Flowers sessile or subsessile, just over 1/2 lin. long; perianth sac-like, completely enveloping the ovary which is ovoid with a definite oblique apex which projects through the mouth of the perianth and bears a short densely penicillate round stigma. Achene deep brown, 1 1/2 lin. long, enveloped in the succulent perianth, the short beak-like oblique apex alone projecting.
Distribution
Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. in damp shady valleys at Kidoti, Hildebrandt, 1039!