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Alectra cordata

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Identification
Alectra cordata Hochst. ex Benth. [family OROBANCHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Alectra sessiliflora (Vahl) Kuntze [family OROBANCHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Alectra indica
  • Alectra cordata
  • Glossostylis cordata
  • Alectra sessiliflora

Flora

Entry for ALECTRA cordata Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
ALECTRA cordata Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. x. 339.
Glossostylis cordata Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family ], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 116.
Melasma cordatum Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 358.
Information
An erect herb, 4–8 in. high, slightly roughly hairy. Stems very slender, simple or having one or two pairs of branches. Radical leaves not seen. Stem leaves all opposite, sessile or very shortly stalked, thin, cordate-ovate or cordate-elliptic, obtuse or rotundate; upper ones ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute; all 3- or 4-toothed on each side, 1/2–1 1/4 in. long, 3-nerved. Flowers very shortly pedicellate. Floral-leaves or bracts longer than the flowers. Bracteoles linear, acuminate, nearly as long as the calyx, coarsely hairy. Calyx nearly equally 5-lobed, 10-ribbed, ribs and margins furnished with a few coarse hairs; lobes deltoid, about 1/3 in. long, acute, margins thickened. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx. Filaments and anthers of the longer stamens bearded; anthercells apiculate.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; near Gafta, Schimper, 1229!
Notes
The Indian specimens formerly referred to this species prove to be A. indica, Benth.

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