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Anchomanes welwitschii

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Name

Identification
Anchomanes welwitschii Rendle [family ARACEAE ] Anchomanes difformis (Rendle) Engl. [family ARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Nicolson,D.H.,
Related name
  • Anchomanes dalzielii
  • Anchomanes welwitschii
  • Amorphophallus unrecorded
  • Anchomanes difformis
Common name
  • òpì-olōló = bottle-horn (AJC) (NIGERIA EFIK ὴkọ̀kọ̀t = growing boy; from the unfolding of the leaf (auctt.), IGBO (Onitsha)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • savanna anchomanes (Morton)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • uji (AJC) uto (AJC) (NIGERIA EFIK ὴkọ̀kọ̀t = growing boy; from the unfolding of the leaf (auctt.), IGBO (Owerri)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • tsakara (JMD) (NIGERIA EFIK ὴkọ̀kọ̀t = growing boy; from the unfolding of the leaf (auctt.), HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bakaba (A&AA) san wulu (A&AA) (IVORY COAST, MANDING-MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for ANCHOMANES Welwitschii Rendle [family ARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 137, (1902) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
ANCHOMANES Welwitschii Rendle [family ARACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 88.
Information
Leaf very similar to that of A. dubius, and of about the same size, produced after the flowers. Peduncle of the specimens seen 9 1/2–17 in. long, prickly. Spathe 5–6 in. long, shortly convolute at the base, boat-shaped, oblong-lanceolate, acute, sulphur-yellow, spotted with red inside. Spadix about half as long as the spathe; female part 14–15 lin. long; male 1 1/2–2 1/4 in. long. Ovary cylindric-oblong or ovoid, with a hardened disk-like apex and sessile stigma, smooth, greenish.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Ambaca; between Isanga and Ambaca, Welwitsch, 225/5! Pungo Andongo; in the wooded thickets of Mata de Pungo, Welwitsch, 226!
Notes
This differs from A. dubius, Schott, which it otherwise much resembles, by its sessile stigma and yellow spathe.

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