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Asystasia buettneri

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Name

Identification
Asystasia buettneri Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Asystasia dryadum S.Moore [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Asystasia buettneri
  • Asystasia calycina
  • Asystasia coromandeliana
  • Asystasia dryadum
  • Justicia unrecorded

Flora

Entry for ASYSTASIA Buettneri Lindau [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
ASYSTASIA Buettneri Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 37. —Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 326.
Information
Hairy. Leaves 5 by 2 in., ovate; petiole 0– 2/3 in. long. Racemes 2 in. long, terminal, one-sided; pedicels scarcely 1/16 in. long; bracts minute. Sepals 5, 1/2 by 1/10 in., linear-oblong, with long white hairs. Corolla white; tube 3/4 in. long. Anthers minutely tailed at the base. Ovary with the style base very hairy.
Distribution
Togoland Upper Guinea Büttner, 260! 283! Kling, 191!
Notes
This is allied to the large forms of A. coromandeliana, Nees (called formerly A. calycina, Benth.), but has larger flowers and very much larger sepals.

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