Boraginaceae
Cordia

Cordia peteri Verdc.

First published in Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Boraginac.: 10 (1991)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania (E. Usambara Mountains). It is a shrub or 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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Boraginaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1991

Morphology General Habit
Habit unknown, presumably a shrub or tree; young stems fairly densely closely adpressed pubescent with pale hairs but soon glabrous, ± ridged, lenticellate and roughened with nodular petiole-bases.
Morphology Leaves
Leaf-blades oblong-elliptic, 4–13 cm. long, 1.8–6 cm. wide, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, ± rounded or cuneate at the base, sparsely pubescent with pale adpressed hairs, later almost glabrous save for scattered hairs above and on nerves beneath, drying blackish above, ± discolorous; main lateral nerves rather few, 3–5 on each side; petiole 1.2–2.5 cm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary from upper axils, paniculate, ± 10 cm. long but probably more extensive; peduncle 2.5 cm. long; secondary branches 2.5–5 cm. long; ultimate branches 5 mm.; pedicels ± 1.5 mm.; all axes and outside of calyx with similar pubescence to the stems.
sex Male
Male flowers:calyx-tube obconic, ± 5 mm. long, densely silky pilose inside; lobes ± triangular, 0.5–1 mm. long; corolla white, tube very narrowly funnel-shaped, 5 mm. long, glabrous outside, slightly pilose at the throat; lobes elliptic-oblong, 3.2–3.5 mm. long, 2–2.4 mm. wide, obtuse; filaments exserted 3.5–5.5 mm.; rudimentary ovary 0.8 mm. diameter, ± 4-lobed with few erect hairs at tip; style absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Female flowers and fruits not seen. Male flowers:calyx-tube obconic, ± 5 mm. long, densely silky pilose inside; lobes ± triangular, 0.5–1 mm. long; corolla white, tube very narrowly funnel-shaped, 5 mm. long, glabrous outside, slightly pilose at the throat; lobes elliptic-oblong, 3.2–3.5 mm. long, 2–2.4 mm. wide, obtuse; filaments exserted 3.5–5.5 mm.; rudimentary ovary 0.8 mm. diameter, ± 4-lobed with few erect hairs at tip; style absent.
sex Female
Female flowers and fruits not seen.
Figures
Fig. 1/4, p. 8.
Habitat
Lowland evergreen forest; 500 m.
Distribution
T3 known only from the type gathering
[FTEA]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/158339/772577

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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  • 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
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. 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 2025. 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