Apocynaceae
Funtumia

Funtumia elastica (Preuss) Stapf

First published in Hooker's Icon. Pl. 27: t. 2694 (1901)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. Tropical Africa to South Sudan and NE. Tanzania. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Apocynaceae, E.A. Omino. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2002

Morphology General Habit
Tree up to 35 m high; white latex coagulating easily; trunk up to 50 cm in diameter; branchlets glabrous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves petiolate; blade 6–27 cm long, 1.5–10 cm wide, base rounded or cuneate, apex acuminate, glabrous except for a few hairs beneath on midrib; domatia often present, consisting of pits with a ciliate margin; petiole 2–15 mm long, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence 2.2 cm long, 3–35-flowered; pedicel 2–8 mm long, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers with sepals elliptic to broadly ovate, 3–5 mm long; corolla tube very pale green to white, 5.5–10.5 mm long, 3–5.5 mm wide, glabrous outside; lobes white, triangular to ovate, distinctly auriculate, 3–7 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, glabrous on both sides; disk with truncate lobes; pistil 4–6 mm long; ovary glabrous; style 1.5–3 mm long, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit almost clavate, 8–19 cm long, 2–4 cm in diameter, subacute or acute at the apex; seeds 4.5–7 cm long, 0.3–0.4 cm wide; coma 3–5 cm long, glabrous basal portion 0.5–1.3 mm long, hairs 4.5–7 cm long.
Habitat
Moist forest; 1050–1200 m
Distribution
T3 U2 U4 tropical Africa from Senegal to Congo (Kinshasa) and Sudan
[FTEA]

Apocynaceae, H. Huber. Flora of West Tropical Africa 2. 1963

Morphology General Habit
Up to 60ft. high and very similar to the above (Funtumia africana)
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers mostly white.
[FWTA]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/49840949/149011757

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0