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Acanthus eminens

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Name

Identification
Acanthus eminens C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Vollesen,K.,
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Flora

Entry for ACANTHUS eminens 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
ACANTHUS eminens C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Glabrate, 6–8 ft. high. Inflorescence pubescent. Leaves 10 by 4 in., pinnatifid, spinous, petiole hardly any. Spike 9 by 2 1/2 in.; bracts scarcely 1 in. long, ovate, hardly acute, with several spines on the margin; bracteoles 1/4 in. long, subulate, not spinous. Calyx soft, not spinescent; posticous segment 1 1/5 by nearly 1/2 in., broadly oblong, not lanceolate upwards; anticous segment the same size and shape, 2-nerved, minutely emarginate at the tip; 2 inmost segments 2/3– 3/4 in. long, lanceolate. Corolla 2 in. long, purple (Scott-Elliot). Ovary large, with hemispheric cap; style in the lower half densely short hairy.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Mau, 8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6926!

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