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Mussaenda tenuiflora

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Name

Identification
Mussaenda tenuiflora G.Taylor [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Mussaenda stenocarpa
  • Mussaenda tenuiflora
  • Mussaenda landolphioides
  • Mussaenda chippii
  • Mussaenda soyauxii
  • Mussaenda unrecorded
  • Mussaenda entomophila
  • Pseudomussaenda stenocarpa
  • Mussaenda obtusa
  • Mussaenda microdonta
Common name
  • igi-ira (JRA) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Mussaenda tenuiflora Benth. [family RUBIACEAE]
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
Mussaenda tenuiflora Benth. [family RUBIACEAE], in Fl. Nigrit. 392 (1849); F.T.A. 3: 69; Wernham l.c. 274.
Mussaenda entomophila Wernham [family RUBIACEAE], (1916).
Information
Shrub; flowers creamy yellow, enlarged calyx-lobe white.
Distribution
Guin.: Macenta, 2,000-2,600 ft. (Oct.) Baldwin 9838!S. L.: Jau, Tunkia Chiefdom (Oct.) Deighton 5196!S. Nig.: Degema Talbot! Calabar (Aug.) Holland 73! Oban Talbot 1050![Br.] Cam.: Victoria (Jan.)F. Po: (fl. & fr. Nov.) T. Vogel 67! Barter! Mann 60! Plaza de Ureka (Nov.) Guinea 2505! Moka, 5,000 ft. (Sept.) Boughey 89!
Distribution (external)
Cameroun
Congo
Angola
S. Tomé
Principe
Notes
[Baldwin 9838 and Deighton 5196 cited above have broader calyx-lobes than usual but appear to be referable to this sp.-F.N.H.]

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