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Acalypha ciliata

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Name

Identification
Acalypha ciliata Forssk. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Acalypha spicata Forssk. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Acalypha vahliana
  • Acalypha fimbriata
  • Acalypha ciliata
  • Acalypha spicata
Common name
  • a-nyèlεgúŋgúŋ FG&G yekgurjgurj (FG&G) (GUINEA, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ifoki (Giwa) (NIGERIA, ESAN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • mòno (CG) (MALI, DOGON), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • υudσ υudσe (FRI) (GHANA, GBE-VHE (Kpando)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • bañãnkura (JB) nanaburo (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • mfofoa (FRI; E&A) (GHANA, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • butchebetche (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, PEPEL), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ẹfiri (SOA) jiwinni (auctt.) owu (IFE) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • abaleba-ji (NWT; JMD) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Agukwu)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • banhancúra (JDES; EPdS) (GUINEA-BISSAU, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for ACALYPHA ciliata Forsk. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
ACALYPHA ciliata Forsk. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. 162;—Vahl, Symb. i. 77, t. 20; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 522; Spreng. Syst. iii. 879; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 504; Baill. Adansonia, i. 72; Müll. Arg. in Linnæa, xxxiv. 44, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 873, incl. var. trichophora, Müll. Arg.; Wight & Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. (1839) iii. t. 5; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 228; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 417; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239; Pax in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 283; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ii. 611; N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 141; Hutchinson in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 901; Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 15.
ACALYPHA fimbriata Schumach. & Thonn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl. 409; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 245; Baill. Adansonia, i. 272.
ACALYPHA vahliana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxiv. 43, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 873; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 147, t. 96; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 978; De Wild. & Durand, Contr. Fl. Congo, i. 51; ii. 57, and Reliq. Dewevr. 211; De Wild. Miss. É. Laurent, 131, and Études Fl. Baset MoyenCongo, ii. 284.
Ricinocarpus ciliatus O. Kuntze [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 617, 618.
Ricinocarpus vahlianus O. Kuntze [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 617, 618.
Information
herbaceous, annual; stem sparingly branched, up to 2 1/2 ft. high, striate, shortly retrorsely hairy; leaves membranous, long-petioled, ovate-elliptic or rhomboid-ovate, caudate-acuminate, base rounded or faintly cuneate, margin crenate-serrate, 1 1/2–4 1/2 in. long, 3/4–2 in. wide, very slightly scabrous on both surfaces and shortly pilose on the margins and main-nerves beneath; petiole 1–3 1/2 in. long, sulcate, at first faintly pubescent, soon glabrous; stipules filiform, about 1 1/4 lin. long, slightly pubescent; inflorescence 2-sexual, axillary; spikes solitary or 2-nate, 3/4–1 in. long, with about 10 female flowers below and numerous male flowers above, with usually a solitary densely muricate abortive female flower at the apex; rhachis puberulous; male bracts very minute; male buds faintly puberulous; female bracts suborbicular, 1/6 in. long, if explanate 1/4 in. wide, with about 20 laciniate lobules terminating as many main-nerves, sparingly patently ciliate externally and with a pubescent margin; sepals 3, ovate-lanceolate, small, membranous, ciliate; ovary 3-lobed, small, sparingly pubescent on the upper half; styles 3, free to the base, slender, laciniate; seeds ovoid, very minutely pitted. null
Range
A widely spread weed in Tropical Africa, Arabia and India which just crosses the northern boundary of our area.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Shilovane, Junod, 1028! 2188!

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