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Taxon: Funtumia elastica (P. Preuss) Stapf

Genus: Funtumia
Family: Apocynaceae subfamily: Apocynoideae tribe: Malouetieae.
Nomen number: 70913
Place of publication: Proc. Linn. Soc. London (Oct.):2. 1900 (Hooker's Icon. Pl. 27: t.1694-2695. 1901)
Name verified on: 28-Aug-2006 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 28-Aug-2006
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • bush rubber   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – English
  • Ive rubber   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • Lagos rubber   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • Lagos silk rubbertree   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  • West African rubbertree   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  • arbre à caoutchouc   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • caucho africano   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
    East Tropical Africa: Tanzania; Uganda
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Zaire
    West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Nigeria; Senegal; Togo

      Cultivated:
  • cultivated elsewhere

References:

  • Abbiw, D. K. 1990. Useful plants of Ghana. (Use Pl Ghana)
  • Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 18:125.
  • Burkill, H. M. 1994. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr) 1:151–152.
  • Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. (F EthiopCuf)
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  • Keay, R. W. J. et al. 1960–1964. Nigerian trees. (Nigerian T)
  • Pichon, M. 1953. Monographie des Landolphiées. Mém Inst. Franç. Afrique Noire 35:70.
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Woody plants of Ghana.
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Funtumia elastica (P. Preuss) Stapf:

  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy
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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?70913 (09 February 2010)

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