Barleria welwitschiiS.Moore [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Barleria welwitschii
Barleria mackenii
Flora
Entry for Barleria Welwitschii S. Moore [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 WelwitschiiS. Moore [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1880, 267. —Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 314.
Information
Root woody; branches 1 ft. long or more, minutely pubescent, as are the innovations. Leaves up to 4 by 1 in., oblanceolate, obtuse, attenuate at the base, subsessile, when mature minutely pubescent on the midrib beneath. Flowers approximated in the upper axils; bract 1/3– 1/2 by 1/10– 1/12 in., linear or slightly spathulate. Posticous sepal 3/4 by 1/4– 1/3 in., quadrate-oblong, tip short triangular, minutely pubescent; anticous calyx-segment nearly similar but 2-nerved and the tip minutely notched; two inner sepals 1/4 in. long, very pubescent; whole calyx with gland-tipped several-celled hairs. Corolla cream colour; tube 1 in. long. Ovary glabrous.
