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Anastrophea abyssinica

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Name

Identification
Anastrophea abyssinica Wedd. [family PODOSTEMACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Dicraea unrecorded
  • Sphaerothylax abyssinica
  • Anastrophea abyssinica

Flora

Entry for SPHÆROTHYLAX abyssinica Warming [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 120, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
SPHÆROTHYLAX abyssinica Warming [family ], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 2A, 22. —Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2356; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 229; Warming in Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, ser. 6, vii. iv. 146, figs. 16–17, and ix. ii. 145.
Anastrophea abyssinica Wedd. [family PODOSTEMACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xvii. 79.
Information
Thallus irregularly lobed, up to 3 in. across. Stems up to 8 in. long, slender, much-branched. Leaves 2–4 in. long, divided into very narrow linear segments. Flowers either solitary on the thallus or in glomerules on the stem; bracteoles 2, minute; spathellæ about 1 in. long, irregularly bursting at the apex. Filaments about 1/2 lin. long; anthers oblong, shorter than the filaments. Staminodes minute. Ovary ellipsoid; style bifid, stigmatose on the inner side. Capsule 3/4 lin. long, on a pedicel 2 lin. long, brown, marked with 8 paler ribs.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Begemeder; near Gafat, 7800 ft., Schimper, 1181!

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