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Anthericopsis fischeri

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Identification
Anthericopsis fischeri Engl. [family COMMELINACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Anthericopsis sepalosa (C.B.Clarke) Engl. [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Anthericopsis sepalosa
  • Anthericopsis fischeri

Flora

Entry for ANTHERICOPSIS sepalosa (C.B. Cl.) Engl. [family COMMELINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by R. B. Faden [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ANTHERICOPSIS sepalosa (C.B. Cl.) Engl. [family COMMELINACEAE], (1897);
Aneilema sepalosum C.B. Cl. [family COMMELINACEAE], (1881);. [type as above]
Gillettia sepalosa (C.B. Cl.) Rendle [family COMMELINACEAE], (1896). Fig. 54. [type as above]
ANTHERICOPSIS fischeri Engl. [family COMMELINACEAE], (1895).
ANTHERICOPSIS tradescantioides Chiov. [family COMMELINACEAE], (1951).
Information
Completely glabrous perennial; tubers enclosed in a hard, crustaceous layer, ovoid to ellipsoid, 0.7–2 x 0.4–1 cm. Leaves ovate to lanceolate-oblong or oblong-elliptic, 4–31 x 1.2–3.5(–5.5) cm, apex acute to acuminate. Peduncle 6–20(–38) cm long in fruit; bracts and bracteoles herbaceous, 0.7–5 cm long. Flowers c. 2.5 cm wide; pedicels 1–4(–5.5) cm long; sepals linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, (10–)15–25 mm long; petals elliptic, c. 15–25 x 13–18 mm, white to pale pink or mauve or rarely bluish; stamens with filaments 3–6 mm long, anthers linear-oblong, 3–5 mm long, yellow; staminodes with filaments c. 2 mm long, antherodes c. 1 mm long; ovary 2.5–4 mm long, style nearly straight, 3–4.5 mm long. Capsules oblong-­lanceolate to linear-oblong, 20–30(–35) x 2–3(–4) mm, brown. Seeds transversely oblong, c. 1 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, testa smooth, brown to grey, hilum raised within an oblong pit.
Range
S1
Altitude range
c. 200–400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Paoli 1253; Tardelli 150.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
Malawi
Zambia
Zaire
Notes
Plants may flower before the leaves are fully expanded, thus the leaves may appear ovate in some specimens. The mature leaves are lanceolate-oblong.

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