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Acrocephalus callianthus

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Identification
Acrocephalus callianthus Briq. [family LAMIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Acrocephalus callianthus Briquet [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 5, page 332, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker)
Names
Acrocephalus callianthus Briquet [family LABIATAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 169.
Acrocephalus zambesiacus Baker ex Gürke [family LABIATAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 348.
Information
Annual. Stems erect, much-branched, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, thinly clothed with short spreading bristly white hairs. Stem-leaves shortly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, crenate, 2–3 in. long, thinly hairy on both sides. Heads corymbose at the end of the branches, crowded, globose, 1/3– 1/2 in. diam.; basal bracts ovate, pale at the base; flower-bracts orbicular-cuspidate, 1/6 in. long and broad. Fruit-calyx 1/6 in. long; tube strongly ribbed; lips oblong. Corolla twice as long as the calyx.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Quilimane, Scott! Makua; Namuli Hills, Last! Unangu to Lake Shirwa, Johnson, 28!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 87! Manganja Hills, 3000 ft., Kirk! Meller! near Blantyre, Last! Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! North Nyasa, Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 403! 424!

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