B. mangorensis var. mangorensis

Plant with undeveloped stems sometimes rooting at nodes, 5 to 8 cm long, with short internodes, 1-4 cm long, hairs of brown hair, hirsute, 1-2 mm long; rhizome grele, 2-3 mm in diameter, creeping. Leaves 3 to 5 per foot, petiole 3-8 cm. hairs of brown, dense, unkempt hairs, Iong sde 1-3 mm: asymmetric lamina, 5-palmatinerve, dark green vein of red, ovate has suborbicular, acute or rounded at the apex, distinctly cord at base, appearing pelte, 3- 5.5 x 3.5-6 cm, both sides with spike-like hairs, denser and longer on the veins on the lower side; whole or very finely toothed or sinus edges; veins bifurcated towards the third or the half of the lamina, anastomosing in a rather dense tertiarary network, especially visible on the inferior face. Stipules lanceolate, long acuminate-acute, 8 mm long. Axillary inflorescences, 1-2 flowers; common peduncle grele, 5-10 cm long, branching 1.5-2 cm long; deciduous bracts; pedicel grele, 3-6 mm long. MALE flowers have 4 pale pink tepals, outer obovals, 6 x 4 mm, smaller and narrower internals. Stamens 12-15, filaments free, barely coherent at the base, slender, 2 mm long; oblong anthers, obtuse 1.5 mm long. FEMALE flowers have 6 tepals similar to those of flowers. Bony, oblong, 2.5-3 mm long, triaile, with a median vein only marked on both sides; styles 3, sod at the base, 2 mm long, bifid at the top; stigma in lyre, with twisted extremity. Capsule pendulous, oblong, 8 x 6 mm, without the wings these poorly developed, very slightly uneven, barely 1-2 mm wide, well rounded around the center. Seeds oblong or globose, about 0.3 mm long, with a reticle. - Pl. 28 p. 93.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Botanical Section: Nerviplacentaria
• Origin: Africa, Madagascar
• Originator: Humbert ex Keraudren-Aymonin & Bosser, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) III.
• Date of Origin: 1972