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Brillantaisia owariensis

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Identification
Brillantaisia owariensis owariensis [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Sidwell,K., Isotype of Brillantaisia patula T.Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Brillantaisia mahoni
  • Brillantaisia lamium
  • Brillantaisia alata
  • Brillantaisia nitens
  • Brillantaisia patula
  • Brillantaisia owariensis
  • Brillantaisia dewevrei
  • Brillantaisia
  • Brillantaisia vogeliana
  • Brillantaisia unrecorded
  • Brillantaisia nyanzarum
  • Brillantaisia leonensis
Common name
  • ņrí átụ̄ = bushcow food (anon.) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • polo polo (NWT) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Awka)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bị̀làbèrí = elephant’s ears (KW) (NIGERIA, IZON (Oporoma)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bị̀làbèrí = elephant’s ears (KW) (NIGERIA, IJO-IZON (Kolokuma)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Brillantaisia owariensis Beauv. [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 owariensis Beauv. [family ACANTHACEAE], Fl. Owar. ii. 68, t. 100 (not of Hook.)
Belantheria belvisiana Nees [family ], in DC. Prod. xi. 97.
Information
Stem 10–12 ft. high (Mann), glabrous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowed into the petiole, 9 in. long, 3 in. wide, glabrous, evenly serrate on the margins. Inflorescence a loosely thyrsiform panicle, glandular-pubescent; bracts lanceolate, falling off early. Calyx-segments linear, acute. Corolla-tube 4 lin. long; lips 10–11 lin. Staminodes glandular. Ovary pubescent, 20–24-ovuled.
Distribution
Benin Upper Guinea Agathon, Beauvois;Cameroons Upper Guinea at 3000 ft., Mann, 1959! Preuss, 600!
Notes
Under this name Lindau has placed specimens which I refer to B. vogeliana and to B. patula. As his and other authors' views of species differ from mine, it has been necessary to reject any statement which could not be tested, and only in the case of B. Lamium —a species which can scarcely be confused—are localities cited on the word of other writers.

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