Dorstenia kameruniana explained

Dorstenia kameruniana is a herbaceous plant species within the family Moraceae.

Description

A shrub or small tree with thick leafy stems, sometimes reaching tall but often 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 and width capable of reaching, while the margin tends to be dentate to lobed. The Inflorescence is commonly solitary, the peduncle is long.

Distribution and habitat

Found in parts of West Africa in Guinea eastwards to Ivory Coast and then in Central and Eastern Africa from Cameroun to Tanzania. Occurs as an understorey in humid and gallery forests or at the edges of savannahs.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Berg, Cornelis C. . Moraceae . Hijman . Maria E. E. . 1989 . Balkema [u.a.] . 978-90-6191-350-4 . Flora of tropical East Africa / prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew with assistance from the East African Herbarium. Ed.: R. M. Polhill . Rotterdam.
  2. Book: Leroy, Jean-François . Flore du Gabon . Berg . C. C. . Hijman . Maria Elisabeth Emanuella . Weerdenburg . Johannes Cornelis Anthonius . 1984 . Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Laboratoire de phanérogamie . 978-2-85654-171-5 . Paris.