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Brillantaisia leonensis

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Name

Identification
Brillantaisia owariensis P.Beauv. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Sidwell,K., Brillantaisia leonensis Burkill [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Sidwell,K.,
Related name
  • Brillantaisia lamium
  • Brillantaisia alata
  • Brillantaisia nitens
  • Brillantaisia owariensis
  • Brillantaisia unrecorded
  • Brillantaisia vogeliana
  • Brillantaisia leonensis

Flora

Entry for Brillantaisia leonensis Burkill [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
Brillantaisia leonensis Burkill [family ACANTHACEAE]
Brillantaisia owariensis Hook. [family ACANTHACEAE], (partly), Bot. Mag. t. 4717, figs. 1 and 2.
Brillantaisia Lamium Benth. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Hook. Niger Fl. 477 (partly).
Information
Stem 1–4 ft. high, glabrous below. Leaves broadly ovate, cordate or rounded below, shortly acuminate above, margin regularly serrate, clad on both surfaces with soft white hairs; petiole winged above, and especially while young densely covered with hairs on the upper side. Inflorescence a somewhat close panicle, glandular-pubescent. Calyx-segments linear, glandular-pubescent, the upper longest and somewhat broadened towards the apex. Corolla-tube 4 lin. long; lips 7–10 lin. long, the upper with hairs on the outside, the lower with three short teeth. Staminodes glandular. Capsule 1 in. long, glandular-pubescent, with about 16 seeds to each valve.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Winwood Reade! on the way to Regent, Scott-Elliot, 3990A! and without precise locality, Don!

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