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Barleria senegalensis

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Identification
Isotype of Barleria senegalensis Nees [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Barleria mucronata Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Barleria oenotheroides
  • Barleria flava
  • Barleria oenotheoides
  • Barleria senegalensis
  • Barleria mucronata

Flora

Entry for Barleria flava Jacq. [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 flava Jacq. [family ACANTHACEAE], Eclog. 67, t. 46. —Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 224; Bot. Mag. t. 4113; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 32; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 314.
Barleria senegalensis Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 224; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 480.
Barleria Afzelii Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 319.
Eranthemum flavum Willd. [family ACANTHACEAE], Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 2.
Information
Innovations and stem strigose with tawny hairs. Leaves 7 by 2 in., attenuated at both ends, when mature strigose mainly on the nerves beneath; petiole 0– 1/4 in. long. Spikes very dense, up to 12–20-flowered (those seen all terminal); fertile bracts 1–1 1/4 in. long, linear, spine-toothed. Posticous sepal 3/4 by 1/2 in., ovate, spine-toothed; anticous calyx-segment 1/2 in. long, ovate, obscurely bifid at the tip, spine-toothed. Corolla yellow (when dry mauve-violet); tube 1 1/4 in. long, cylindric; lobes 2/3 in. long. Stamens 4, 2 very rudimentary; anthers muticous. Ovary glabrous, with 2 ovules in each cell; style glabrous, branches 2, subequal, linear, short, approximated.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Rio Nunoz, Heudelot, 644! and without precise locality, Whitfield!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea near Mofari, Scott-Elliot, 4423! and without precise locality, Afzelius!
Notes
Long cultivated in European gardens. The above description is from Scott-Elliot, 4423, d to have yellow flowers, which have become in drying mauve-purple, as stated by Nees. The descriptions of the old garden plant recede in various ways; the wild plant appears a typical Barleria; Jacquin figures the stamens as 4, fertile, equal; the anthers are said to be sometimes tailed, the stigmas abnormal, &c.

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