- Family: Boraginaceae Juss.
- Genus: Cordia L.
Cordia fischeri Gürke
- Genus: Cordia L.
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
Native to:
Tanzania
Cordia fischeri Gürke appears in other Kew resources:
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)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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