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Alchemilla elgonensis

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Name

Identification
Alchemilla elgonensis Mildbr. [family ROSACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Alchemilla elgonensis Mildbr. [family ROSACEAE ] Verified by Rothmaler, W., 1935
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Flora

Entry for ALCHEMILLA elgonensis Mildbr. [family ROSACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1960) Author: R. A. GRAHAM
Names
ALCHEMILLA elgonensis Mildbr. [family ROSACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 8: 228 (1922); Hjelmq. in Bot. Not. 109: 21 (1956); Hedb. in Symb. Bot. Ups. 15 (1): 109 (1957). Type: Elgon, Lindblom (S, holo.)
Information
A low spreading bush with woody branches, 15–120 cm. tall. Lateral branchlets 1.5–12 cm. long. Stipules ovate, entire, reddish-brown, transversely wrinkled, obscuring the branchlets, glabrous or with long white hairs on the margins. Leaves undivided, sessile or nearly so, simple, broadest at the apex and thence ± evenly narrowed to the base, 4–15 × 2–5 mm., apically truncate and ± tridentate, with the acute, forward-directed teeth up to 1.5(–2) mm. deep, covered on both sides with long silvery hairs. Flowers 1–3 together. Calyx-tube 1.5 mm. long; calyx-lobes triangular, 1–1.5 mm. long; epicalyx-lobes lanceolate, shorter than the calyx-lobes. Achenes usually 2.
Range
DISTR. U3 ; K3,?5 not known elsewhere
Distribution
KENYA Elgon, Dec. 1930, Lugard 369! & Feb. 1932, Tweedie 24!KENYA Marakwet-Suk Hills, June 1935, Dale 3403!UGANDA Elgon, below Jackson’s summit, Liebenberg 1616!, Saunders & Hancock 69!UGANDA Elgon, above Bulambuli, Sept. 1932, A. S. Thomas 559!
Notes
Dale 3403 has a leaf somewhat intermediate between this species and the next, there being a tendency for maximum width below the apex in certain leaves. The flowers, however, correspond with those of A. elgonensis in size.

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