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Barleria kirkii

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Name

Identification
Barleria unrecorded unrecorded [family ACANTHACEAE ] Barleria elegans S.Moore [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke, C.B., Barleria elegans S.Moore [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Moore, S., Barleria pungens L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Barleria kirkii T.Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Barleria kirkii
  • Barleria pungens
  • Barleria elegans
  • Barleria unrecorded

Flora

Entry for Barleria Kirkii T. Anders. [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
Barleria Kirkii T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 30.
Information
Branch stout, glabrous, white; branchlets densely hairy with spreading clustered almost stellate hairs and with numerous gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 1/2–1 by 1/4– 1/3 in., elliptic, triangularly narrowed at both ends, densely tomentose with white stellate hairs (more or less disappearing in age) and with few gland-tipped hairs, also with simple long 1-celled tawny acicular hairs, especially on the nerves; petiole 0– 1/20 in. long. Racemes 2–1-flowered; bracts (sterile and fertile) 1/4– 1/3 in. long, spines apparently subulate, simple, but minutely toothed, hairy. Posticous and anticous calyx-segments subequal, 1/2 by 1/6 in., oblong, spine-toothed, becoming scarious reticulate-veined before the fruit is ripe. Style 3/4 in. long. Capsule 1/2 in. long, 4-seeded.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kaurabassa Rapids, 30 miles above Tete, Kirk!
Notes
This is not the B. Kirkii of authors, who understand thereby the next species, B. spinulosa, Klotzsch.

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