Dorstenia kameruniana

Dorstenia kameruniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Moraceae
Genus:	Dorstenia
Species:	D. kameruniana
Binomial name
Dorstenia kameruniana Engl.

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

Description

A shrub or small tree with thick leafy stems, sometimes reaching 6 m (20 ft) tall but often 3 m (10 ft) 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 22 cm (9 in) and width capable of reaching 9 cm (3.5 in), while the margin tends to be dentate to lobed. The Inflorescence is commonly solitary, the peduncle is 2–9 mm (0.08–0.35 in) long.[1]

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.[1] Occurs as an understorey in humid and gallery forests or at the edges of savannahs.[2]

References

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