Anisophyllea laurina (Anisophyllea laurina)
Description
Anisophyllea laurina,A small tree;extremities terete,pilose-pubescent,thinly silky-puberulous or glabrate.Leaves obliquely ovate-oblong or ovate-anceolate,gradually acuminate,base unequal,the upper or sometimes both margins rounded,or base on luxuriant shoots sub-semicordate or very distinctly cordate,?-nerved,early glabrous,thinly coriaceous; /? in.long,? or even on luxuriant shoots / in.broad,frequently with stipuliform ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate leaves alternating with or near the base of the ordinary leaves.Petiole ? lines.Flowers small,puberulous or tomentose,sessile on axillary or supra-axillary solitary or geminate slender spikes ? in.long.Bracteoles very minute,ovate or lanceolate or obsolete.Calyx-lobes ovate.Petals narrowed below,deeply laciniate above with gland-tipped segments.We have in the Kew herbarium three forms embraced by the above description,which may possiby prove to be specifically distinct.All are from Upper Guinea.They are severally characterized thus: Gaboon river,Mann! Leaves ? in.,base rounded,sometimes subcordate.Stipuliform leaves /? / in.long.Petioles line or less.Spikes (at least sometimes) from axils of reduced or stipuliform leaves.Bracteoles obsolete.Flowers papillose-puberulous.Sierra d.Crystal,Mann! Leaves as above,but less rounded at base Petioles lines or more.Stipuliform leaves minute or 0.Spikes slightly supra-axillary.Bracteoles squamiform.Flowers tomentose.A flowerless plant from Mr.Barter,labelled as ?common everywhere round Free Town,Sierra Leone,? agrees with this form so far as it goes.Senegambia,Leprieur! A flowering specimen,with immature elliptic-lanceolate leaves, /? / in.long as yet.Flowers apparently all male.Bracteoles obsolete.Calyx sparsely puberulous,deeply -fid,base truncate.Petals but slightly exceeding the calyx,-fid,with a slender median segment,and the lateral segments bifid.Rudiment of ovary hairy.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Cucurbitales
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Family: Anisophylleaceae
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Genus: Anisophyllea
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