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Achyropsis laniceps

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Name

Identification
Achyropsis robynsii Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Achyropsis laniceps C.B.Clarke [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Townsend C.C., 1978
Related name
  • Achyropsis robynsii
  • Unrecorded unrecorded
  • Achyropsis laniceps

Flora

Entry for ACHYROPSIS laniceps 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 laniceps C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Information
Stems slender; branches opposite, erect, thinly hairy, with long internodes. Leaves opposite, linear, 1/2–1 1/2 by 1/6 in., thinly hairy, attenuate at the base, shortly petioled. Spikes in fruit 3/4 by 1/4 in., dense, cylindric, the glabrous perianths embedded in dense white wool; solitary at the top of long branches, or peduncles (as there is rarely a leaf at the top). Perianth in fruit scarcely 1/12 in. long, enclosing the utricle; segments elliptic, green, muticous.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Tanganyika Plateau, at Fort Hill, 3500–4000 ft., Whyte!
Notes
This is in ripe fruit, so that I have not been able to see the staminal tube.

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