Hugonia planchonii
Hugonia planchonii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Linaceae |
Genus: | Hugonia |
Species: | H. planchonii
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Binomial name | |
Hugonia planchonii Hook.f.
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Hugonia planchonii is a liana with bright yellow flowers that are short-lived and stems producing alternate hooks that is endemic to countries in Tropical West Africa but also occurs in Cameroon and Gabon.[1] It is within the Linaceae family.
In traditional medicine, leaves are obtained to make a regimen to treat bronchitis or cough[2]
Description[]
The species is a liana with brown stem that is hairy when young but glabrescent or with short hairs when matured, the stems have recurved hooks. Leaves are stalked and shiny; stipules are pubescent and 5–10 mm long,[3] petiole is 3–6 mm long; leaf-blade lanceolate to obovate, the species has inconspicuous domatia or sometimes are without the one, the leaf-blade is 5–16 cm long and 2–5 cm wide, surface is slightly coriaceous while the upper surface is glabrous, around the midrib to lower surface, it is glabrescent to pubescent.[3] Flowers are yellow and in axillary cymes; sepals are semi-erect, reddish and densely pubescent.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Hugonia planchonii Hook.f. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2012). CRC world dictionary of medicinal and poisonous plants : common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology. Boca Raton. p. 2012. ISBN 978-0-429-17148-2. OCLC 874163087.
- ^ a b c "Hugonia planchonii | Flore du Gabon". portal.cybertaxonomy.org. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Flora of Cameroon
- Hugonia