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  1. Family: Boraginaceae Juss.
    1. Genus: Cordia L.

      1. Cordia fischeri Gürke

        This species is accepted, and its native range is N. Tanzania.

    [FTEA]

    Boraginaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1991

    Habit
    Tree or shrub, the branches pubescent above.
    Leaves
    Leaf-blades 9 cm. long, 6 cm. wide,obtuse at the apex, entire, coriaceous, rough above, densely pubescent beneath; petiole 1–3 cm. long.
    Inflorescences
    Cymes few-flowered (‘cyma pauciflora, floribus ad apices ramorum 3–4...’) at apices of branchlets, very shortly pedunculate or sessile.
    Calyx
    Calyx turbinate-tubular, 8 mm. long, 4–5-toothed, obsoletely 10-grooved, subtomentose outside.
    Corolla
    Corolla-tube rather slender, 1 1/2 times (but also says ‘ist nur wenig langer’) as long as the calyx; ovate lobes reflexed downwards.
    Stamens
    Stamens slightly exserted, the 1 mm. long anthers on 1 mm. long filaments.
    Ovary
    Ovary ovate, 3 mm. long, acute, glabrous; style divided from the base the branches 7–9 mm. long, glabrous and split about halfway for a second time.
    Habitat
    Unknown, presumably dry bushland
    Distribution
    K/T6/T2

    Distribution

    Native to:

    Tanzania

    Other Data

    Cordia fischeri Gürke appears in other Kew resources:

    Bibliography

    First published in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas, C: 335 (1895)

    Accepted by

    • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
    • Verdcourt, B. (1991). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Boraginaceae: 1-124.

    Literature

    Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 76 (1949).
    • Bak. & Wright in Flora of Tropical Africa 4(2): 10 (1905).
    • Gürke in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 28: 307 (1900).
    • Gürke in Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete, Theile C: 335 (1895)

    Sources

    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    Flora of Tropical East Africa
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0