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Achyropsis leptostachya

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Filed as Achyropsis leptostachya (E.Mey. ex Meisn.) Baker & C.B.Clarke [family AMARANTHACEAE]

Isotype of Achyranthes leptostachya E.Mey. ex Meisn. [family AMARANTHACEAE]

Type? of Achyropsis leptostachya (E. Meyer ex Meissn.) Baker & C.B. Clarke [family AMARANTHACEAE]

Isotype of Psilotrichum densiflorum Lopr. [family AMARANTHACEAE]

Type? of Achyranthes leptostachya E. Meyer ex Meissn. in Hook. [family AMARANTHACEAE]

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Achyropsis leptostachya (E. Meyer ex Meissn.) Baker & C.B. Clarke [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2007 Achyranthes leptostachya E. Meyer ex Meissn. in Hook. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,

Flora

Entry for ACHYROPSIS leptostachya Hook. f. [family AMARANTHACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Reference Sources

Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 402, (1912) Author: By T. COOKE and C. H. WRIGHT.

ACHYROPSIS leptostachya Hook. f. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 36;—Baker & C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 66.

ACHYROPSIS alba Hook. f. [family AMARANTHACEAE], l.c.

Achyranthes alba Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Moquin [family AMARANTHACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 311; Sonder in Linnæa, xxiii. 96.

Achyranthes leptostachya E. Meyer ex Meisn. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. (1843), 548, by error 448.

Psilotrichum densiflorum Lopr. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Malpighia, xiv. 453.

Paronychia capensis Spreng. [family ILLECEBRACEAE], in Sonder in Linnæa, xxiii. 96.

a branched undershrub 1–1 1/2 ft. high; stem terete, or tetragonous in the upper part, ribbed; branches pubescent, ascending; leaves subsessile or shortly petiolate, narrowly oblong, obtuse, very shortly mucronate, up to 1 1/2 lin. long and 5 lin. wide (usually much smaller), sparingly pubescent above, whitish villous beneath; midrib prominent beneath; spikes up to 1 1/4 lin. long, on slender rigid silky peduncles nearly as long as the spikes; bracts very short, ovate, entire, shortly mucronate, shining; perianth-segments 4, elliptic, concave, obtuse, glabrous, 1 lin. long; stamens 4; filaments subulate; staminodes quadrate, not fringed; anthers ovate; utricle subglobose, green; seed nearly lenticular, black. null

Also in Tropical Africa.

COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; by the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 56! 3612! Prior! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 4031! Galpin, 2965! Komgha Div.; banks of the Kei River, under 500 ft., Drège! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 3049 bis!EASTERN REGION Pondoland; among scrub, Isunka, Port St. John. 100 ft., Galpin, 2865! Griqualand East; near Clydesdale, Tyson, 2780! and in Bolus & MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1225! Natal; Durban, Grant! coast-land, Sutherland! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 604!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Linokana, Holub! Streyd Poort, Rehmann, 5719! Lydenburg, Wilms, 1256!