Mussaenda angolensis Wernham

Species

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Characteristics

Leaf blades 5–17 × 2.8–7.5 cm, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or sometimes ± ovate, rounded to acute and mucronate at the apex, cuneate to subcordate at the base, shortly densely hairy all over, particularly on the nerves or glabrescent except for nerves, drying with venation finely reticulate; petiole 1–2 cm long; stipules 6–8 × 4 mm, triangular, persistent.
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Corolla white with white hairy throats or yellow; tube 2–3 cm long, densely hairy with spreading upwardly directed or downwardly directed hairs; lobes 6 × 3 mm, ovate-oblong, apiculate, hairy outside and on the median ridge inside.
Shrub to 2 m tall or woody climber to 9 m or more; branches densely, coarsely, almost velvety pale ferruginous hairy.
Calyx tube 3–4 mm long; lobes all triangular and 2–4 × 1.5 mm or sometimes one as a calycophyll c. 4.5 × 3 cm.
Style well included in short-styled flowers or lobes shortly exserted in long-styled flowers.
Corymbs mostly c. 6 cm in diameter, dense and many-flowered, all parts densely hairy.
Fruits yellow, 1.2–1.7 × 0.75–1.3 cm, pubescent.
Seeds pale, flattened and reticulate-pitted.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Distribution

Mussaenda angolensis world distribution map, present in Angola

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:756538-1
WFO ID wfo-0000246462
COL ID 44QJM
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Synonyms

Mussaenda angolensis