Vitex oxycuspis Baker

Meerts, Pierre, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Vitex (Lamiaceae) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Plant Ecology and Evolution 151 (3), pp. 380-392 : 388

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5091/plecevo.2018.1504

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643199

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D15322-0059-1E46-FCD5-54A7FC1DF948

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scientific name

Vitex oxycuspis Baker
status

 

13. Vitex oxycuspis Baker View in CoL View at ENA

( Baker 1900: 326); Pieper (1928: 56); Moldenke (1957: 31; 1967: 314); Aubréville (1956: 232); Huber et al. (1963: 446); Lebrun & Stork (1997: 525).

– Type: Nigeria, Old Calabar River, Feb. 1863, Mann 2243 (holo-: Kbarcode K 000192745) .

Asmall tree. Twigs almost glabrous. Leaves 3–5-foliolate; petiole slender, with papilliform hairs, petiolules 5–18 mm, lamina long acuminate, coarsely serrate, thin and membranaceous, almost glabrous or with short papilliform hairs on veins. Inflorescence of dichasia, long pedunculate, fewflowered, branches with papilliform hairs; calyx campanulate 2–3 mm, teeth 0.5–1 m broadly triangular, puberulent; ovary glabrous; fruit c. 8 mm long.

Distribution – Tropical Wand CAfrica, from Guinea southwards to Angola.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Lamiaceae

Genus

Vitex

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