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Internal ID UUID64401990378bc346506679
Scientific name Embelia rowlandii
Authority Gilg
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 30: 96 (1901)

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Embelia rowlandii is a shrub in the Primulaceae family, with a greyish bark covered in fine hairs and pale lenticels when young. Its leaves are obovate to elliptic and can grow up to 13 cm long and 7 cm wide. The plant produces whitish to creamy yellow flowers in axillary racemes. It is found in Tropical West Africa, specifically from Senegal to Nigeria and eastwards to the Central African Republic, typically growing along streams in savannahs.

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Embelia dahomensis A.Chev. Explor. Bot. Afrique Occ. Franc. i. 385 (1920), nomen.

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  • Africa
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin
      • Burkina
      • Guinea
      • Guinea-Bissau
      • Ivory Coast
      • Mali
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic
      • Gulf Of Guinea Islands

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World Flora Online wfo-0000666982
Tropicos 50002470
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:588458-1
The Plant List kew-2788194
Open Tree Of Life 6052082
IPNI 588458-1
GBIF 3719859
EOL 41980015
Wikipedia Embelia_rowlandii

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