Dorstenia kameruniana
| Dorstenia kameruniana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Moraceae |
| Genus: | Dorstenia |
| Species: | D. kameruniana
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| Binomial name | |
| Dorstenia kameruniana Engl.
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Dorstenia kameruniana is a herbaceous plant species within the family Moraceae.
Description
[edit]A shrub or small tree with thick leafy stems, sometimes reaching 6 m (20 ft) tall but often 3 m (10 ft) or less. Leaves have a distichous arrangement with a surface that is paper to leathery.[1] The outline of the leaflets is lanceolate to elliptic, the length can reach 22 cm (9 in) and width capable of reaching 9 cm (3.5 in), while the margin tends to be dentate to lobed. The Inflorescence is commonly solitary, the peduncle is 2–9 mm (0.08–0.35 in) long.[1]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]Found in parts of West Africa in Guinea eastwards to Ivory Coast and then in Central and Eastern Africa from Cameroun to Tanzania.[1] Occurs as an understorey in humid and gallery forests or at the edges of savannahs.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Berg, Cornelis C.; Hijman, Maria E. E. (1989). Moraceae. Flora of tropical East Africa / prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew with assistance from the East African Herbarium. Ed.: R. M. Polhill. Rotterdam: Balkema [u.a.] ISBN 978-90-6191-350-4.
- ^ Leroy, Jean-François; Berg, C. C.; Hijman, Maria Elisabeth Emanuella; Weerdenburg, Johannes Cornelis Anthonius (1984). Flore du Gabon. Paris: Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Laboratoire de phanérogamie. ISBN 978-2-85654-171-5.
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