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Asclepias leucotricha

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Type of Asclepias leucotricha Schltr. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Xysmalobium leucotrichum (Schltr.) N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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Identification
Asclepias leucotricha Schltr. [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Xysmalobium undulatum R.Br. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Xysmalobium leucotrichum
  • Asclepias leucotricha
  • Xysmalobium undulatum

Flora

Entry for Xysmalobium leucotrichum N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
Xysmalobium leucotrichum N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Asclepias leucotricha Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 342.
Information
Stem 3 ft. or more high, 3 1/2 lin. thick at the base, simple, thinly puberulous. Leaves spreading; petiole 3 1/2–5 lin. long; blade 4 3/4–6 1/4 in. long and up to 3/4 in. broad, lanceolate-oblong or linear-oblong, usually acuminate, auriculate-cordate at the base, scabrous on both sides. Umbels lateral, pedunculate, several-flowered. Peduncle 1 1/2–2 in. long, suberect, puberulous Pedicels 3/4 in. long. Sepals 3 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, densely puberulous. Corolla campanulate, greenish; lobes 4 lin. long, nearly 1 1/2 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, glabrous on the back, densely bearded with white silky hairs on the upper half of the inner face. Coronal-lobes shorter than the staminal-column, erect or suberect, fleshy, 3-lobed, with a slightly thickened keel on the inner face, the obtuse middle lobe overtopping the very obtuse lateral lobes. Anther-appendages subquadrate-rounded, very obtuse, inflexed on the style-apex.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea by the River Kwebe, 3700 ft., Baum, 332.
Notes
This is closely allied to X. dispar, N. E. Br., and may prove to be identical with that species. I have not seen it.

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