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Achyranthes lanuginosa

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Identification
Achyranthes lanuginosa Nutt. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Achyranthes lanuginosa
  • Pandanus latistigmaticus
  • Cladothrix lanuginosa
  • Cladothrix oblongifolia

Flora

Entry for ACHYRANTHES lanuginosa Schinz [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
ACHYRANTHES lanuginosa Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 186. —Schinz in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 174.
Information
A thinly hairy herb; branches a foot long. Leaves opposite, petiolate; blade 2–3 in. long, elliptic, narrowed at either end. Fruiting spikes up to 12 by 1/2 in., dense to the base, white; bracteoles about 1/2 as long as the perianth, similar to its segments. Perianth 1/4 in. long; segments copiously white-woolly on the back, with long entwined (not straight) very fine hairs, lanceolate, with a very short hard glabrous mucro. Staminodes oblong, copiously fimbriate at the top. Ovary obovoid, glabrous; style linear; stigma small. Fruiting perianths deflexed, pointing vertically downwards.
Distribution
Uganda Nile Land Unyoro, Stuhlmann, 335!
Notes
In the hairy, densely-placed white perianths and the uninterrupted linear spikes this species resembles Pandiaka; but the leaves are distinctly petiolate.

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