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Barleria ramulosa

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Name

Identification
Barleria ramulosa C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Barleria paolioides
  • Barleria ramulosa
  • Barleria unrecorded

Flora

Entry for Barleria ramulosa 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 ramulosa C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Stem soft, with spreading and deflexed hairs; branches many; nodes very many, short. Leaves 1/3– 1/2 in. long, sessile, elliptic, somewhat obovate, obtuse, mucronate, hairy on both faces with small white crispate hairs and scattered long brown needle-like 1-celled hairs; interpetiolar spines 1/3 in. long, simple, straight or slightly recurved, more or less hairy. Flowers solitary (rarely 2); bracts 1/3 in. long, reduced to simple spines, hairy, slightly recurved. Posticous sepal 1/2 by 1/4 in., with many spinous teeth on the margin, hairy; interior sepals 1/4 in. long, oblong-linear. Ovary glabrous, style nearly 2/3 in. long. Capsule less than 1/3 in. long, 4-seeded.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land 2500 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6312! Duruma, Hildebrandt, 2339!
Notes
Resembles much B. buxifolia, Linn., which has a capsule 3/4 in. long.

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