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Amphoranthus spinosus

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Name

Identification
Amphoranthus spinosus S.Moore [family NYCTAGINACEAE ] Phaeoptilum spinosum Radlk. [family NYCTAGINACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Phaeoptilum spinosum
  • Amphoranthus spinosus

Flora

Entry for PHÆOPTILUM spinosum Radlk. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 392, (1912) Author: By DR. T. COOKE.
Names
PHÆOPTILUM spinosum Radlk. [family ], in Abhandl. Naturw. Ver. Bremen, viii. 436;—Baker & Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 9.
PHÆOPTILUM Heimerli Engl. [family ], Jahrb. xix. 133.
Amphoranthus spinosus S. Moore [family NYCTAGINACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1902, 305, t. 441, fig. A (in p. 408 of the same publication Moore withdraws the genus in favour of Radlkofer's).
Information
a small shrub with woody stem furnished with numerous sharp spines reaching 1/2 in. long; branches many, running out into spines; leaves 4–5 lin. long, 1/4 lin. broad, linear-cuneate, obtuse, thick, in fascicles along the branches; perianth-tube 4 lin. long, about 5 lin. in diam. at the mouth; lobes 2 lin. long, suborbicular; staminal tube 1/2 lin. long; filaments about 1/5 in. long; fruit a 4–5-winged anthocarp 8 lin. long, 6 lin. broad, enclosed in the persistent perianth-tube. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Calvinia Div.; near Hantam, Meyer.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Shaw!

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