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Acanthopale pubescens

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Name

Identification
Acanthopale madagascariensis C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke, C.B., Strobilanthes madagascariensis Baker [family ACANTHACEAE ] Strobilanthes unrecorded unrecorded [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Dischistocalyx unrecorded unrecorded [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Acanthopale pubescens C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
Related name
  • Strobilanthes madagascariensis
  • Acanthopale pubescens
  • Acanthopale madagascariensis
  • Dischistocalyx unrecorded
  • Strobilanthes unrecorded
  • Acanthopale albosetulosa

Flora

Entry for ACANTHOPALE pubescens C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ACANTHOPALE pubescens C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Dischistocalyx pubescens Lindau ex Engl. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Götzen, Durch Africa, Sonderabdr. 9.
Information
Branches, leaves on both surfaces, and inflorescence hairy. Leaves 3 by 1 in., entire acuminate, decurrent at the base; petiole 1/4– 1/2 in. long. Flowers 1–3 on small axillary branches, with reduced floral leaves (or bracts) 1/2–1 in. long, spathulate. Calyx 1/4 in. long, divided to the base; sepals equal, very narrowly oblong, hairy. Corolla-tube 1 in. long, widely funnel-shaped from the base; mouth subequally 5-lobed. Stamens 4; anthers similar, 2-celled; cells parallel, oblong, muticous; pollen strongly echinate; filaments slightly hairy. Style hairy; stigma of one branch.
Distribution
Congo South Central in forest on Kirunga Volcano, north of Lake Kivu, 8000 ft., Götzen, 58!
Notes
Strobilanthes madagascariensis, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 220, is very close to (if not identical with) this.

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