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Dorstenia turbinata
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Section |
Xylodorstenia |
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Type
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Shrub |
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Body |
Tall, branched with leafy twigs, sparsely to
densely white to brownish puberulous |
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Height |
0,5-5 m, often around 2 m tall |
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Leaves |
Obovate to oblanceolate or oblong to
elliptic, 3-21 x 1-9 cm. |
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Flowers |
Solitary or in pairs, (pale-)greenish, flower
stem up to 3 cm long, receptable 0,4-1,5 cm in diameter,
flowering face oblong, 2-9 appendages, mostly 4, up to 3 cm
long. |
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Reproduction |
Seed from infrutescens |
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Area |
From Guinea to W Zaire;
In primary and secondary forest;
At altitudes up to 450 m. |
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Taxonomical details |
D. turbinata Engler, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33:
115. 1902. D. aspera A. Chevalier (1912); D. aspera
var deltoidea A. Chevalier (1912); D. buesgenii
Engler (1911a); D. dinklagei Engler (1911a); D.
ledermannii Engler (1911a); D. obanensis Hutchinson &
Dalziel (1929); D. Smythei Sprague (1908); D. smythei
var. deltoidea Hutchinson & Dalziel (1929); D.
spathulibacteata Engler (1914). |
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