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Anisotes sessiliflorus

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Identification
Anisotes sessiliflorus C.B.Cl. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Anisotes zenkeri (Lindau) C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by H. Heine, 1961
Related name
  • Himantochilus sessiliflorus
  • Anisotes zenkeri
  • Anisotes sessiliflorus

Flora

Entry for ANISOTES sessiliflorus C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ANISOTES sessiliflorus C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Himantochilus sessiliflorus Benth. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1117; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 346, fig. 110, P, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. (1896) 82.
Himantochilus sessilifolius Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 372.
Information
Glabrate; innovations densely grey-tomentose with minute simple hairs. Leaves up to 7 by 2 1/4 in., closely and minutely dotted on both surfaces, minutely scabrous-hispid on the nerves, finally glabrous, sessile. Flowers solitary or 2–3 together, axillary, sessile. Calyx 1/5– 1/4 in. long, minutely and densely grey-tomentose. Corolla-tube 1/3 in. long; anticous lip 1 1/4–1 3/4 in. long.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shibisa (Chikwawa), on the River Shire, Meller!Somaliland Nile Land Robecchi, 546, 652, 653!British East Africa Nile Land Ribe to Galla country, Wakefield! Taita, Hildebrandt, 2375!

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