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Achyranthes carsoni

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Name

Identification
Achyranthes carsoni Baker [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Pandiaka carsoni C.B.Clarke [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C. B., Pandiaka carsonii (Baker) C.B.Clarke [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Townsend, C. C., Argyrostachys splendens Lopr. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
Related name
  • Argyrostachys splendens
  • Pandiaka carsonii
  • Achyranthes carsoni
  • Pandiaka carsoni

Flora

Entry for PANDIAKA Carsoni C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
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 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
PANDIAKA Carsoni C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Achyranthes Carsoni Baker [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 280.
Argyrostachys splendens Lopr. [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 109, fig. 2, in Malpighia, xiv. 436.
Information
A sparsely hairy herb; branches erect, 18 in. long. Leaves opposite, sessile, 2 by 1/4 in., oblong, often slightly widened upwards. Spikes 2 1/2 by 1/2 in., cylindric, dense, white; bracteoles about half as long as the perianth, ovate, minutely mucronate. Perianth 1/3 in. long; segments oblong, subacute, muticous, glabrous. Staminodes shortly quadrate, fimbriate. Ovary obovoid, glabrous.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Fwambo, in Urungu, south of Lake Tanganyika, Carson, 8! 50!

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