Entry for ALCHEMILLA cryptantha Steud. [family ROSACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 364, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
ALCHEMILLA cryptanthaSteud. [family ROSACEAE], Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 259.
Information
Procumbent herb, branches patent-pilose rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves thinly membranous, rotundate-reniform, broadly 5-lobed, lobes rounded, very obtuse, rather deeply crenate-serrate, usually not extending over 1/4 or 1/3 the radius of the leaf, thinly silky-pilose on both sides, scarcely exceeding 1 in. in breadth in our largest leaves. Stipules serrate above or toothed. Flowers concealed within the sheathing stipulate leaf-axils, shortly pedicellate or subsessile. Calyx-tube infundibuliform; outer and inner lobes of limb subequal, ovate-lanceolate acute or outer subacute. Carpels 5 or fewer, shortly stipitate, glabrous.
