Tabernaemontana pachysiphon Stapf

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Tabernaemontana pachysiphon

Katanga Province, DRC
Nov 2007
Photo: Jos Stevens

Tabernaemontana pachysiphon

Katanga Province, DRC
Nov 2007
Photo: Jos Stevens

Tabernaemontana pachysiphon

Katanga Province, DRC
Nov 2007
Photo: Jos Stevens

Tabernaemontana pachysiphon

Katanga Province, DRC
Jun 2006
Photo: Jos Stevens

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Synonyms: Conopharyngia angolensis (Stapf) Stapf
Conopharyngia cumminsii Stapf
Conopharyngia holstii (K.Schum.) Stapf
Conopharyngia pachysiphon (Stapf) Stapf
Tabernaemontana angolensis Stapf
Tabernaemontana holstii K. Schum.
Tabernaemontana pachysiphon Stapf var. cumminsii (Stapf) H. Huber
Voacanga dichotoma K. Schum.
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Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Shrub or small tree. Bark pale brown, shallowly to deeply fissured, with large lenticels. Leaves opposite, broadly to narrowly elliptic, 10-50 cm long, thickly leathery, hairless on both surfaces; margin entire and more or less rolled under; petiole 6-19 mm long, hairless. Inflorescences mostly long-pedunculate, erect, fairly laxly few-many-flowered. Corolla, white with a pale green tube and often with a pale yellow throat; tube 18-40 mm, almost cylindric, 5-angular, slightly twisted; lobes more or less falcate. 14-50 mm long, wavy at the margins. Fruit of paired, obliquely subglobose mericarps, 7-15 cm in diameter, pale glaucous, often dotted, with an indented suture but probably indehiscent.
Type location:
Nigeria
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Habitat: In light forest understorey and riverine forest.
Altitude range: Up to 1500 m
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Worldwide distribution: Widespread in tropical Africa as far South as Angola, Zambia and Malawi.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): N,W
Zambian distribution (Provinces): Nw
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Content last updated: Tuesday 21 February 2017
Literature:

Höft, M.G. (1995). Aut-ecological studies on Tabernaemontana pachysiphon Stapf and Rauvolfia mombasiana Stapf (Apocynaceae) in the Shimba Hills (Kenya) with special reference to their alkaloid content. Bayreuther Forum Ökologie 17

Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. & Kupicha, F.K. et al. (1985). Apocynaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 440 - 442. (Includes a picture).

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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Tabernaemontana pachysiphon.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=214270, retrieved 28 March 2024

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