Compilation
Borraginoides africana
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Name
Identification
Borraginoides africana (L.) Hiern [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Trichodesma africanum (L.) Lehm. [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
- Trichodesma africanum
- Borraginoides africana
Flora
Entry for TRICHODESMA africanum R. Br. [family BORAGINACEAE]
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 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
TRICHODESMA africanum R. Br. [family BORAGINACEAE], Prodr. 496. —Lehm. Pl. Asper, 195; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 69, 753; A.DC. in DC. Prodr. x. 173; Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 168; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 154; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 11.
Borago africana Linn. [family BORAGINACEAE], Sp Pl. ed. 2, 197; Burm. Prodr. 4; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 161.
Borago verrucosa Forsk. [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. 41.
Pollichia africana Medic. [family ILLECEBRACEAE], Bot. Beobacht. 248; Phil. Bot. i. 32.
Borraginoides aculeata Moench [family BORAGINACEAE], Meth. 516.
Borraginoides africana Hiern [family BORAGINACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 721.
Boraginella africana O. Kze. [family BORAGINACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 435.
Information
An annual. Stems erect, branched, up to 3 ft. high, furnished with scattered rigid white bulbous-based hairs. Leaves opposite or alternate, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, up to 5 by 2 1/2 in., with scattered white bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces, the uppermost sessile, the rest petioled. Panicle many-flowered, terminal; pedicels up to 6 lin. long, covered (like the outside of the calyx) with stiff white hairs 1 lin. long. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, 3–4 lin. long at flowering time. Corolla scarcely exserted from the calyx, blue; throat yellow with 5 purple spots; lobes rounded, produced into an apiculus 3/4 lin. long. Anthers lanceolate; awn nearly as long as the cells, twisted, hairy outside in the lower part. Style filiform, glabrous. Nutlets 4, ovoid, scabrid, rugulose on the ventral side, margin raised, white and spiny.
Range
North Africa, and through the Orient to Scind.
Distribution
Nigeria Upper Guinea Kuka, Vogel, 43! Borgu, Barter, 770!Eritrea Nile Land Arrot Valley, 4400 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1409!Angola Lower Guinea Mossamedes; banks of the River Bero, Welwitsch, 5303! hills near Boa Vista, Gossweiler, 81!Abyssinia Nile Land Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 311! Beschilo Valley near Magdala, Steudner, 859!
Distribution (external)
South Africa
Cape Verde Isles