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Boottia abyssinica

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Name

Identification
Boottia abyssinica Ridl. [family HYDROCHARITACEAE ] Ottelia ulvifolia (Planch.) Walp. [family HYDROCHARITACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Boottia abyssinica
  • Ottelia ulvifolia

Flora

Entry for BOOTTIA abyssinica Ridl. [family HYDROCHARITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 1, (1898) Author: (By C. H. Wright.)
Names
BOOTTIA abyssinica Ridl. [family HYDROCHARITACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 239.
Information
Rhizome thick, submerged, emitting numerous long rootlets. Leaves many, thin, lanceolate, obtuse, 15 in. long, 1 1/2 in. wide, petiolate. Scape thick, fragile, 9 in. long. Spathe oblong-elliptical, scarcely attenuate at the apex, 2 in. long, about 1/2 in. wide, 2-flowered. Sepals lanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous, 9 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. wide. Petals yellow, slightly longer than the sepals.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Zana, Schimper, 1452!Nile Land Gazelle River, Schweinfurth, 1159! 1254! Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2423! Madi, Speke and Grant, 696!
Notes
Speke and Grant's 620 1/2 from the Nile and Schweinfurth's 3638 from Monbuttu may prove to be a white-flowered form of this species. A plant resembling this has been collected by Barter at Nupe (910), which in the absence of perfect flowers is not determinable.

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