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Bartsia longiflora

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Identification
Bartsia longiflora Hochst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Bartsia longiflora Hochst. ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Bartsia macrophylla
  • Bartsia similis
  • Trixago longiflora
  • Bartsia longiflora

Flora

Entry for BARTSIA longiflora Hochst. ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
BARTSIA longiflora Hochst. ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. x. 545. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 134; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 384.
Information
Shrubby, 1 1/2–3 ft. high, glandular-hairy and villous. Stems rigid, sometimes much-branched. Leaves longer than the internodes, subsessile, oblong or the upper ovate-lanceolate, mostly 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, crenate, flat. Flowers shortly stalked, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long. Calyx densely clothed with coarse hairs, glandular, 6- or 7-lobed; lobes shorter than the tube, very obtuse or rounded, upper one sometimes trifid. Corolla slightly hairy, about 1 in. long; tube straight; upper lip galeate, erect, enclosing the stamens; lower lip about 3/4 in. across, nearly equally 3-lobed; lobes spathulate-rotundate, undulate. Anthers cordate, bearded. Ovary hairy; style glabrous, slightly exserted. Capsule a little longer than the calyx.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Mount Koubi, Schimper, 418! Wojerat, Schimper, 853! Samen, Steudner, 796!British East Africa Nile Land Aberdare Mountains, James!

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