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Anthospermum asperuloides

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Type of Anthospermum asperuloides Hook.f. [family RUBIACEAE]

Anthospermum asperuloides Hook.f. [family RUBIACEAE]

Isotype of Anthospermum cameroonense Hutch. & Dalziel [family RUBIACEAE]

Isotype of Anthospermum cameroonense Hutch. & Dalziel [family RUBIACEAE]

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Identification

Anthospermum asperuloides Hook.f. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Puff, C., 1983 Isotype of Anthospermum cameroonense Hutch. & Dalziel [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,

Flora

Entry for ANTHOSPERMUM asperuloides Hook. f. [family RUBIACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)

ANTHOSPERMUM asperuloides Hook. f. [family RUBIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vi. 11; et vii. 197.

A small tufted undershrub, 6 in. high. Branches flexuose, intertwining, woody below, wiry and puberulous above. Leaves linear or linear-oval, pointed or usually mucronate, fasciculate, somewhat narrowed to the very short dilated petiole, glabrescent, 1/6– 1/3 in. long, margins revolute, slightly scabrid; stipules short, truncate, 4-cuspidate, cusps subulate. Flowers tetramerous. Ovary hairy. Fruit at length glabrous.

Fernando Po Upper Guinea at the top of Clarence Peak (10,000 feet elevation), Mann!Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountains, at elevation of 12,000 feet, Mann!