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Alectra petitiana

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Name

Identification
Alectra petitiana A.Rich. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Hedbergia abyssinica (Hochst. ex Benth.) Molau [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Bartsia petitiana Hemsl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Bartsia petitiana
  • Alectra petitiana
  • Hedbergia abyssinica

Flora

Entry for BARTSIA petitiana Hemsl. [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
BARTSIA petitiana Hemsl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Alectra petitiana A. Rich. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 118.
Information
Perennial, hispid, slender, 6–18 in. high, but usually less than a foot. Stems simple. Leaves sessile, rigid, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1/4– 1/2 in. long, ascending, obtuse, rounded or cordate at the base, and usually with 5–7 crenatures on each side. Flowers about 1/2 in. in diam., pairs overlapping; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx-lobes nearly equal, about as long as the tube, entire, broad, rounded. Corolla pubescent, less oblique than in B. Mannii; tube relatively longer and less abruptly curved at the top; lobes rounded, nearly equal. Capsule 4–5 lin. long, hairy. Seeds broadly winged.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Wojerat, Petit, 216! Ankober, Roth, 460! and without precise locality, Schimper, 719!Kilimanjaro Mozamb. Dist. above Mamba, Volkens, 780!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Nyika Plateau at 7500 ft., McClounie, 60!
Notes
There is a specimen at Kew from the Cameroon Mountain, at 8000 ft. (Johnston), which may be this species. Engler (Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 384) unites B. petitiana with B. abyssinica.

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