Anticharis aschersonianaSchinz [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by [Mukox], D.,
Related name
Anticharis linearis
Anticharis aschersoniana
Flora
Entry for ANTICHARIS aschersoniana Schinz [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
ANTICHARIS aschersonianaSchinz [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 188. —Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 756.
Information
A decumbent slender much-branched glandular-pubescent annual from a few inches to 1 or 2 ft. high, usually becoming black in drying. Leaves 1–1 1/4 in. long, 4–5 lin. broad, narrow-oblanceolate or lanceolate to linear, acute, attenuated at the base. Peduncles 12–14 lin. long, slender; bracts 1–2 lin. long, subulate, usually opposite, inserted below the middle of the peduncle (about 4 lin. from the base). Calyx about 2 1/2 lin. long; segments linear, shortly acuminate, subequal. Corolla 2/3– 3/4 in. long, sparingly pilose on the outside; lobes 2 lin. long, 2–2 1/2 lin. broad. Anthers coherent, ciliate. Capsule somewhat longer than the calyx, narrow-ovoid, slightly contracted near the apex.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Mossamedes; banks of the River Bero, Welwitsch, 5815! near Mata dos Carpenteiros, Welwitsch, 5814! and without precise locality, Newton.
Notes
Welwitsch 5814 has less spreading branches, longer and narrower leaves, and the bracts inserted above the middle of the pedunele.
