Isotype of Alafia caudataStapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg,A.J.M.,
Related name
Alafia butayei
Alafia conica
Alafia sarmentosa
Alafia caudata
Flora
Entry for ALAFIA caudata Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 24, (1904) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
ALAFIA caudataStapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 123. —Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 673.
Information
A climbing shrub, 12–25 ft. high, perfectly glabrous; branches very slender, brown or black when dry. Leaves oblong to ovate or lanceolate, caudate-acuminate (acumen 3–6 lin. long), rounded or acute at the base, 2 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad, dark above, very pallid below when dry, very thin; secondary nerves about 6 on each side, very faint; veins quite obscure; petiole 1 1/2–2 lin. long. Flowers in 7–2-flowered contracted pseudoumbels; peduncle slender, up to 4 lin. long; bracts minute; pedicels very slender, up to 3 1/2 lin. long. Calyx glabrous, 3/4 lin. long, intracalycular glands distinct; sepals ovate, obtuse. Corolla white, slightly scented; tube hairy within below the stamens, otherwise glabrous, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; lobes broad, ovate, slightly longer than the tube. Staminal cone reaching or very slightly exceeding the corolla-mouth, scarcely 1 1/2 lin. long. Carpels pubescent.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Golungo Alto; in dense forests on the mountains of Queta, Welwitsch, 5938! 5955! 6692!
