Achyropsis fruticulosaC.B.Clarke [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Achyranthes fischeri
Achyropsis greenwayi
Achyropsis fruticulosa
Flora
Entry for ACHYROPSIS fruticulosa 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
ACHYROPSIS fruticulosaC. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Information
A small shrub; branches divided, spreading, hardly 6 in. long. Leaves 1/2 in. long, opposite, oblong, silky white beneath. Spikes all terminal on the branches, 1 in. long, nearly 1/3 in. broad, straw-coloured, dense, apparently glabrous, the rhachis hairy. Perianth 1/6 in. long, conic, subacute at the tip.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Kukui, Kaessner, 1011!
Notes
This species, from the larger subacute perianth, is allied to the Cape Achyranthes avicularis, E. Meyer, from which it hardly differs except in habit, its woody base and short spreading branches.
