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Specimen #388178

Taxonomy

Family : Rubiaceae
Species : Craterispermum schweinfurthii
Subspecies : -
Variety : -
Forma : -
Current name : Craterispermum schweinfurthii Hiern Help icon.
The botanical name under which the specimen is filed in the herbarium.
Accept name : -
Local name : -

Collecting data

Collection number : 5423
Collector : Gereau R.E.
Collection date : 04/03/1994
Collection comment : -
Locality : Ca. 600 m SSW of summit of Aketu Hill, and ca. 4.5 km NW of abandoned coffee plantation at Nzaro (ca. 90 km N of Mambasa on road to Isiro).

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Locality

Place num : -
Locality : Ca. 600 m SSW of summit of Aketu Hill, and ca. 4.5 km NW of abandoned coffee plantation at Nzaro (ca. 90 km N of Mambasa on road to Isiro).
Geosource :L
UTM : -
Altitude : 1060 M
Latitude : 2.08
Longitude : 28.80
Country : CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE
Phytoregion : VI (Forestier Central) Help icon.
The phytoregions are the ones used by Paul Bamps in its book "Flore d'Afrique Centrale : Zaïre - Rwanda - Burundi. Répertoire des lieux de récolte" published by The National Botanic Garden of Belgium in June 1982.

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Specimen information

Description : Shrub 2 m high in dry river bed at forest edge. Corolla dull white, lobes minutely spotted red-purple without.
Uses : -
Habitat : At lower edge of open granitic dome and upper edge of mixed semideciduous forest.
Barcode : MO-

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