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Discopodium penninervium

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Identification
Discopodium penninervium Hochst. [family SOLANACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for DISCOPODIUM penninervium Hochst. [family SOLANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 207, (1905) Author: (By C. H. Wright.)
Names
DISCOPODIUM penninervium Hochst. [family SOLANACEAE], in Flora, 1844, 22. —Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 478.
Information
A shrub or small tree, 15–20 ft. high. Leaves alternate or geminate, oblong-elliptic, acuminate, acute at the base, glabrous or slightly puberulous, up to 8 in. long and 4 in. wide; petiole about 1 in. long. Fascicles many-flowered; peduncles about 5 lin. long. Calyx 1 1/2 lin. in diam.; teeth broadly triangular. Corolla puberulous outside, 1/3 in. long, white or yellowish; lobes nearly 1/2 as long as the tube, oblong, sub-obtuse. Filaments 1 lin. long; anthers oblong, 1 lin. long. Ovary conical; style terete, hairy; stigma 3/4 lin. in diam.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea Mann, 300!Abyssinia Nile Land Ghaba Valley, Steudner, 914! near Bahara, Schimper, 917! and without exact locality, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 224!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Masuka Plateau, 6500–7000 ft., Whyte!Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 1236! 2178!Uganda Nile Land West Ankole forest, 5000 ft., Dawe, 409!

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