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Aneilema rhodospermum

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Identification
Aneilema silvaticum Brenan [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Brenan, J.P.M., Aneilema lanceolatum Benth. [family COMMELINACEAE ] Verified by C.B. Clarke, Aneilema rhodospermum K.Schum. [family COMMELINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Aneilema lanceolatum
  • Aneilema silvaticum
  • Aneilema rhodospermum

Flora

Entry for ANEILEMA lanceolatum Benth. [family COMMELINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 25, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ANEILEMA lanceolatum Benth. [family COMMELINACEAE], in Hook. Niger Fl. 546. —C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 227; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 431.
ANEILEMA rhodospermum K. Schum. [family COMMELINACEAE], in Zenker, Exsicc. 1110.
Information
Sparingly pubescent. Stems up to 15 in. long, occasionally divided, weak, decumbent at the base. Leaves up to 6 by 1/2 in., narrowly lanceolate. Panicle terminal, peduncled, up to 1 1/4 by 1 in. (but usually much smaller), dense, minutely pubescent; lowest bracts 1/10 in. long, ovate; bracts to the cyme-peduncles 1/12 in. long, obovate. Sepals 1/10 in. long, glabrate. Petals small, blue. Capsule 1/5 in. long, 2-celled, 4-seeded, shoulders rounded at the top.
Distribution
Niger Upper Guinea Lower Niger; Stirling Hill, Vogel! Ansell! Quorra, Vogel!Cameroons Upper Guinea Bipinde, Zenker, 1110!

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