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Cynoglossum amplifolium

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Identification
Cynoglossum amplifolium A.DC. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CYNOGLOSSUM amplifolium Steud. ex DC. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CYNOGLOSSUM amplifolium Steud. ex DC. [family BORAGINACEAE], Prodr. x. 149. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 91.
Information
Stems tall, much-branched, densely and shortly hispid. Leaves large, ovate, acute, upper sessile, lower 5–6 in. long, often 3 in. broad, narrowed to a petiole. Cymes racemose, long, lax, sometimes bracteate at the base; pedicels 3–6 lin. long. Calyx 1 1/2 lin. long, densely hairy; tube longer than in the other species. Corolla-limb bright blue, 3 lin. in diam. Fruit 5 lin. in diam.; nuts globose, densely muricated.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; mountains at Enjedcap, Schimper, 564! Begemeder; Jan Meda, Schimper, 1538! Ankober, Roth, 435! and without precise locality, Schimper, 457!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro, 10,000–11,000 ft., Johnston!Uganda Nile Land Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7975.

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