Family:
Convolvulaceae Juss.
Genus:
Bonamia Thouars

Bonamia vignei Hoyle

This species is accepted, and its native range is Ghana, DR Congo.

[FWTA]

Convolvulaceae, H. Heine. Flora of West Tropical Africa 2. 1963

Morphology General Habit
A woody climber with dark brown pilose stems, inflorescences and petioles, leaves nearly glabrous
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers small, white, in corymbose inflorescences (never forming onesided panicles)
Ecology
In forest.

Native to:

Ghana, Zaïre

Bonamia vignei Hoyle appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jul 10, 1933 Lyon, F.J. [2631], Ghana K000044662 syntype Yes
Jul 10, 1933 Vigne, C. [FH1387], Ghana K000044663 Unknown type material Yes

First published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1934: 188 (1934)

Accepted by

  • Breteler, F.J. (1992). Novitates gabonenses 9. Notes on Bonamia in Central Africa with emphasis on Gabon. Adansonia ser. 4, 14: 61-71.
  • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
  • Heine, H. in Hutchinson, J. & Dalziel, J.M. (1963). Convolvulaceae Flora of West Tropical Africa, second edition 2: 335-352 + 496. Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations.
  • Lejoly, J. & S. Lisowski (1982). Le genre Bonamia (Convolvulaceae) au Zaire Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 52: 133-139.

Not accepted by

  • Myint, T. & D.B. Ward (1968). A taxonomic revision of the genus Bonamia (Convolvulaceae) Phytologia 17: 121-239. [Cited as possibly Calycobolus ?.]

Literature

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • in Kew Bull. 1934: 188.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Breteler, F.J. (1992). Novitates gabonenses 9. Notes on Bonamia in Central Africa with emphasis on Gabon. Adansonia ser. 4, 14: 61-71.
  • Lejoly, J. & S. Lisowski (1982). Le genre Bonamia (Convolvulaceae) au Zaire Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 52: 133-139.

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