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Achyranthes lappacea

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Identification
Achyranthes lappacea L. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Pupalia atropurpurea Moq. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Pupalia lappacea (L.) A.Juss. [family AMARANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pupalia orbiculata
  • Pupalia atropurpurea
  • Pupalia lappacea
  • Achyranthes lanata
  • Achyranthes not on sheet
  • Achyranthes lappacea

Flora

Entry for PUPALIA lappacea Juss. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 402, (1912) Author: By T. COOKE and C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
PUPALIA lappacea Juss. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Par. ii. [1803] 132;—Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 331; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 217; Hook. Niger Fl. 494; Garcke in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 504; Aschers. in Schweinf, Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 180; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 93, figs. E, H, and 108; in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 164, v. Append. iii. 65, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 207; Durand & De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 85; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 724; Baker & C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Trop. Afr. vi. i. 47.
PUPALIA styracifolia Juss. ex Steud. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Nomencl. ed. i. 269, 669.
Achyranthes lappacea Linn. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 204.
Desmochæta flavescens DC. [family ], Cat. Hort. Monspel. 1813, 102.
Pupal lappacea Hiern [family ], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 891.
Pupal-Valli Rheede Hort. [family ], Malab. vii. 81, t. 43.
Information
a large straggling undershrub; branches terete, tomentose; leaves 1 1/4–4 in. long, 1/2–2 in. wide, elliptic or ovate, acute or acuminate, rounded or shortly cuneate at the base, finely apiculate, tomentose on both surfaces, ciliate; main nerves conspicuous beneath; petioles 1/10– 1/4 in. long; flowers in close or distant clusters arranged in terminal spikes 4–10 in. long; rhachis tomentose; bracts ovate, acuminate, pungent; villous, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; bracteoles ovate-oblong, apiculate, concave, 1/5 in. long, 1/8 in. wide; sterile flowers subtended by a small lanceolate bract, reduced to bunches of unequal stellately spreading hooked awns, woolly below, enlarged and yellow in fruit; perianth-segments 1/5 in. long, lanceolate, aristate, 3-nerved, densely clothed with white wool; utricle membranous, very thin, oblong, suddenly and shortly tapering at the apex into the long persistent style; seed 1/10 in. long, 1/12 in. wide, ellipsoid, compressed, smooth, shining, black. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Asia.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., Bolus, 562!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Enon, Prior! Albany Div.; on the rocks of Zwartwater Poort, Burchell, 3398!EASTERN REGION Natal; in “Thorns” near Weenen, 300–4000 ft., Wood, 4480!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; on the Asbestos Mountains and on plains at their foot between Witte Water and Griquatown, Burchell, 1972! 2053/ 1! 2088! Transvaal; between Delagoa Bay and Pretoria, Bolus, 9752! Wonderboom Poort, 4550 ft., Rehmann, 4546! Miss Leendertz, 614! Warmbath, Miss Leendertz, 2089! Fourteen Streams, Burtt-Davy, 1594! Klippan, Rehmann, 5298!

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