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Achyranthes conferta

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Name

Identification
Guilleminea illecebroides Kunth [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Burret, Achyranthes conferta Ruiz ex Seub. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Iresine hirsuta
  • Achyranthes conferta
  • Guilleminea illecebroides

Flora

Entry for PSILOTRICHUM confertum 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
PSILOTRICHUM confertum C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Achyranthes conferta Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 420.
Information
Glabrate; branches long, with few distant leaves.Leaves opposite, 1 3/4 by 1/12 in. Peduncle long, terminal; compound spike pale brown, cylindric, 1 3/4 by 1/3 in., very dense. Perianth in fruit 1/6 in. long; segments ellipsoid-oblong, striate, acute. Seed 1, half-ellipsoid, hard, brown.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Muansa, on Lake Victoria, Stuhlmann, 4502! Tabora, Stuhlmann, 606!
Notes
This appears very near P. gracilentum, but has the spike much denser. Schinz by some accident, says the leaves are alternate, but nevertheless puts the plant in Achyranthes .

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