Octoknema Pierre

Doubtfully present in:

Equatorial Guinea

Native to:

Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zaïre

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

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Kew Bulletin

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Flora of Tropical East Africa

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• in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris 2: 1290 (1897)