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Published In: Niger Flora 463. 1849. (Niger Fl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl.Per.: May-August.
Type: Type: Described from tropical Africa.
Distribution: Distribution: A native of Mozambique. Cultivated elsewhere.
Comment/Acknowledgements: The ‘African Sausage’ tree is grown sparingly in gardens. The flowers are nocturnal, foul smelling and bat pollinated.
Map Location: C-7 Jhelum Dist.: Jhelum, Company Bagh, R.R. & I.D. Stewart s.n. (RAW); id., 26.8. 66, S.Qureshi s.n. (KUH); D-8 Lahore Dist.: Lahore, cultivated, Sadiq Gill 3679(RAW).

 

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Trees up to 10 m tall. Leaves 9-20 cm long, rachis ribbed, tomentose or sparsely so; leaflets 5-9, ovate-oblong to elliptic-ovate, 5-11 x 3-5.5 cm, coriaceous, scabrid, entire, acute or retuse, mucronate, base often oblique, midrib and veins prominent on undersurface, strigose. Panicles lax, pendulous. Flowers 6-7 cm broad. Calyx campanulate, glabrous. Corolla throat wide. Fruit probably not developed in Pakistan.
 
 
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