Anthocleista vogelii

Anthocleista vogelii (Family Gentianaceae)[1] commonly called "Murderer's Mat" (from the Ashanti language, the significance unclear) or "Cabbage Tree" in several countries in Africa is a rainforest tree ultimately reaching to eighty feet (24 meters) in height with leaves in opposite pairs up to 14 inches (36 centimeters) long and five inches (12 centimeters) in width in adult trees.[2] Juvenile trees are noteworthy in bearing enormous leaves up to 7.5 feet (2.3 meters) in length by about 18 inches (46 centimeters) wide with wavey edges, in opposite pairs,[3] with nodes spaced about four inches (ten centimeters) apart. These are the largest leaves of any African Dicot.

Anthocleista vogelii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Gentianaceae
Genus: Anthocleista
Species:
A. vogelii
Binomial name
Anthocleista vogelii
Planch. 1848
Synonyms
  • Anthocleista auriculata de Wild., Ann. Mus. Congo, Ser. V. 3: 250 (1910)
  • Anthocleista bequaerti de Wild., Rev. Zool. Afr. 10: Suppl. Bot. 8 (1922)
  • Anthocleista buchneri Gilg, Bot. Jahrb. 17: 576 (1893)
  • Anthocleista kalbreyeri Baker, Kew Bull. 99 (1895)
  • Anthocleista lanceolata Gilg, Engl. Jahrb. 28: 125 (1899)
  • Anthocleista macrantha Gilg, Bot. Jahrb. 17: 578 (1893)
  • Anthocleista talbotii Wernham, Cat. Talbofs Nigerian Pl. 68 (1913)
  • Anthocleista zenkeri Gilg, Engl. Jahrb. 28: 124 (1899)

References
  1. "Anthocleista vogelii Planch". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  2. Menninger, Edwin A. (1967). Fantastic Trees. New York: Viking Press. p. 48.
  3. op. cit. pp. 48 & 245-247 incl photos p. 246.
  • Hook. Ic. Pl. I. 793. (1848).


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