Cola cauliflora Mast., 1868

Breteler, Frans J., 2014, The identity and geography of Cola cauliflora Mast. (Malvaceae formerly Sterculiaceae) and its substitute for Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, Adansonia (3) 36 (1), pp. 113-119 : 117

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/a2014n1a10
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14894356
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scientific name	Cola cauliflora Mast.
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Cola cauliflora Mast. View in CoL

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In Oliver, Flora of Tropical Africa 1: 221 (1868).

TYPUS. — Cameroon. Batanga, VI.1861, fl., Mann 967 (lecto-, K!, designated by N. Hallé [1962]).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Cameroon. South Province, just E of Kribi , 29.IX.1969, fl., Bos 5425 ( BR!, C, K, MA, MO, P [ P00583494 ], PRE, SRGH, WAG!, YA); 6 km S of Kribi, 17.VIII.1970, fr., Bos 7094 ( WAG!); Campo Ma’an area, 18.II.2000, fr., Elad et al. 1340 ( WAG!); Campo Ma’an area, Biboulman , 24.XI.2002, fl., Tchouto et al., Bibox 94 ( WAG!) .

ECOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION. — Primary and secondary forest in the South Province of Cameroon between Kribi and Campo. Alt. up to 600 m.

DESCRIPTION

Shrub-treelet, 3-4 m tall. Branchlets, stipules, and petioles tomentose, hairs ± scaly, stellate, soon glabrescent or not. Stipules soon deciduous, narrowly triangular, slightly boat-shaped, 5-8 mm long. Leaves: petiole subterete, 0.4-5(-10) cm long; lamina elliptic to slightly obovate, (1.5-)2-2.5(-3) times as long as wide, (8-)11-25(-31) × (4-)7-11(- 14) cm, cuneate to rounded to subcordate at base, shortly acuminate at the apex, the acumen 0.5- 1.5(-3) cm long, glabrous both sides, the midrib and the (5-)7-8(-9) pairs of main lateral nerves prominent both sides. Flowers fasciculate, cauliflorous or axillary, stellate-hairy. Pedicel 2-4 (-6) mm long, stellate-hairy, the male slightly longer than the female. Calyx 13-15 mm long, stellate-hairy outside; lobes spreading to somewhat reflexed, ± oblanceolate, 6-10 mm long, ± fringed, glabrous inside. Androphore 4-5 mm long, glabrous; anthers 8-10, sessile, 1-1.5 mm long. Carpels 4-5, ovoid with recurved stigma, stellate-hairy, with a ring of indehiscent anthers at base. Fruit scarlet at maturity, 4-5 folliculate; follicles subellipsoid-ovoid, 1-1.5 cm beaked, 1.5-2 cm stipitate, slightly flattened, sparsely scaly, stellate-hairy, very irregularly ruminately ridged, 3-5 × 2-3 × 1.5 cm, exclusive of stipe and beak.