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Acalypha polymorpha

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Identification
Acalypha polymorpha Müll.Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Acalypha ambigua Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
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Entry for ACALYPHA polymorpha Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
ACALYPHA polymorpha Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1864, 335, partly.
ACALYPHA polymorpha Müll. Arg. var. elliptica [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c., and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 835; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 977; De Wild. et Th. Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 47; De Wild. Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, ii. 284.
ACALYPHA polymorpha Müll. Arg. var. sericea [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c., and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 835; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 977; De Wild. et Th. Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 47; De Wild. Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, ii. 284.
ACALYPHA polymorpha Müll. Arg. var. oblongifolia [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c., and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 835; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 977; De Wild. et Th. Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 47; De Wild. Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, ii. 284.
Ricinocarpus polymorphus O. Kuntze [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 618.
Information
Stems short, about 6 in. long, arising from a woody rhizome, pubescent. Leaves subsessile, lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse, very slightly narrowed to the base, 1 1/2–2 in. long, 3/4 in. broad, serrate, rigidly coriaceous, setulose-pubescent, especially on the midrib and lateral nerves on both surfaces; lateral nerves 7–9 on each side, ascending, prominent on both surfaces; tertiary nerves rather faint, parallel; stipules linear, 3–3 1/2 lin. long, pubescent. Flowers very probably monœcious, the male not seen. Female spikes shortly pedunculate, 3/4–1 in. long. Bracts lobed to about the middle, pubescent or nearly glabrous outside, lobes subulate, not glandular. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, ciliate. Ovary pubescent, not glandular; styles very shortly laciniate. Seeds smooth and shining.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Kisantu, Gillet; Yindu, Vanderyst.Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 429! near Mumpulla, Welwitsch, 421! between Lopollo and Ferrao da Sola, Welwitsch, 428!

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