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CYPHOCARPA orthacantha C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CYPHOCARPA orthacantha C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Pupalia orthacantha Hochst. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Bot. Zeit. 1856, 598, name only; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 181; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 206.
Cyathula orthacantha Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 108, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173.
Information
An erect annual, hairy (not tomentose). Leaves opposite; blade 1 1/4 by 3/5 in., elliptic, triangular at either end; petiole 1/8 in. long. Inflorescence terminal, 2 by 3/4 in., dense, straw-coloured, hairy; partial inflorescences crowded, of several fertile flowers; hairs in the flower-clusters copious; bracts of the rudimentary flowers ending in rigid yellow spines standing out prominently, not hooked. Filaments linear to the base; staminodes very short, oblong, emarginate. Ovary obovoid, glabrous; style longer than the ovary; stigma small.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Jaja, 4000–6000 ft., Schimper, 2153!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CYPHOCARPA orthacantha C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Pupalia orthacantha Hochst. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Bot. Zeit. 1856, 598, name only; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 181; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 206.
Cyathula orthacantha Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 108, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173.
Information
An erect annual, hairy (not tomentose). Leaves opposite; blade 1 1/4 by 3/5 in., elliptic, triangular at either end; petiole 1/8 in. long. Inflorescence terminal, 2 by 3/4 in., dense, straw-coloured, hairy; partial inflorescences crowded, of several fertile flowers; hairs in the flower-clusters copious; bracts of the rudimentary flowers ending in rigid yellow spines standing out prominently, not hooked. Filaments linear to the base; staminodes very short, oblong, emarginate. Ovary obovoid, glabrous; style longer than the ovary; stigma small.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Jaja, 4000–6000 ft., Schimper, 2153!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CYPHOCARPA orthacantha C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Pupalia orthacantha Hochst. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Bot. Zeit. 1856, 598, name only; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 181; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 206.
Cyathula orthacantha Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 108, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173.
Information
An erect annual, hairy (not tomentose). Leaves opposite; blade 1 1/4 by 3/5 in., elliptic, triangular at either end; petiole 1/8 in. long. Inflorescence terminal, 2 by 3/4 in., dense, straw-coloured, hairy; partial inflorescences crowded, of several fertile flowers; hairs in the flower-clusters copious; bracts of the rudimentary flowers ending in rigid yellow spines standing out prominently, not hooked. Filaments linear to the base; staminodes very short, oblong, emarginate. Ovary obovoid, glabrous; style longer than the ovary; stigma small.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Jaja, 4000–6000 ft., Schimper, 2153!
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