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Petalidium spiniferum

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Name

Identification
Petalidium spiniferum C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] Petalidium spiniferum C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Petalidium spiniferum
  • Barleria unrecorded

Flora

Entry for PETALIDIUM spiniferum C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
PETALIDIUM spiniferum C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Petalidii sp. nova S. Moore [family ], in Journ. Bot. 1880, 228.
Information
Hairy with simple and glandtipped hairs. Leaves (only some on young shoots seen), 1 by 1/5 in., narrowly elliptic. Flowers 1 or 2 on very short axillary branches ending in stout spines 3/4 in. long; bract obsolete; bracteoles 3/4 by 1/5 in., narrowly elliptic-oblong, hairy, not strongly veined. Calyx: posticous segment 1/3 in. long, 2 anticous segments connate nearly to the tip. Corolla-tube 3/4 in. long, nearly equally cylindric; lobes 1/3– 1/2 in. long. Anthers, pollen and stigmas of the genus. Capsule 1/3 in. long; seeds of the genus.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Chella Mountains, Johnston!

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