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Alchemilla tenuicaulis

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Name

Identification
Alchemilla tenuicaulis Hook. f. [family ROSACEAE ] Verified by Hutchinson and Dalziel, Alchemilla cryptantha Steud. ex A.Rich. [family ROSACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by L. Hauman and L. Bath.,
Related name
  • Alchemilla cryptantha
  • Alchemilla tenuicaulis

Flora

Entry for ALCHEMILLA tenuicaulis Hook. f. [family ROSACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 364, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
ALCHEMILLA tenuicaulis Hook. f. [family ROSACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 191.
Information
Low herb hardly rising above 2 or 3 in., with slender prostrate branches, thinly villous with spreading hairs and rooting at the nodes. Leaves rotundate-reniform 5- or 7-lobed, lobes rotundate, broadly cuneate within, about 1/3 the radius of the leaf, broadly serrate, thinly pilose above, more distinctly so beneath, firmly membranous, radical leaves 1/2– 3/4 in. broad more or less. Petioles patent-pilose. Stipules toothed at the apex. Flowers in bracteate racemes, fascicled in the axils; bracts palmately toothed, broadly cuneate below. Calyx-lobes ovate, the outer slightly exceeding or equalling the inner. Stamens 4. Carpels 5 stipitate, 2 or 3 at length abortive.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea 7500 ft., Mann!Upper Guinea Camaroons mountain, 7000 ft., Mann!
Notes
This species I take to be nearly allied to A. abyssinica, Fres., only known to me by description.

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