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Barleria nyasensis

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Identification
Barleria nyasensis C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clare, C.B., Barleria unrecorded unrecorded [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Barleria gueinzii Sond. [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Barleria nyasensis
  • Barleria crassa
  • Barleria gueinzii
  • Barleria unrecorded

Flora

Entry for Barleria nyasensis C. B. Clarke [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 nyasensis C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Branches closely hairy with erect hairs. Leaves 1/2 by 1/4 in., sessile, elliptic, almost acute, mucronate, with many short white hairs and some long 1-celled tawny hairs; interpetiolar spines 1/3 in. long, simple, hairy, somewhat recurved. Flowers solitary; bracts 1/3 in. long, simple, hairy, recurved. Posticous sepal 3/4–1 by 1/2– 2/3 in., quadrate-ovate, veined, sparsely hairy, with many triangular-mucronate teeth. Corolla exceeding 1 1/2 in. in length, blue; tube more than 1 in. long, linear-cylindric, slightly wider upwards.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mountains east of Lake Nyasa, Johnson!
Notes
This hardly differs from B. mysorensis, Roth, which has, however, the corolla usually smaller. It is not unlikely that the mature plant of B. nyasensis produces sometimes much larger leaves than those seen.

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