Entry for Brillantaisia schumanniana Lindau [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 schumannianaLindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 102.
Information
Stem glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate, rounded or subcordate at the base, shortly acuminate above, slightly pilose, 4 in. long, 3 in. wide, their margins serrate at the base, sinuate towards the apex; petiole nearly as long as the blade, with a few acute leafy teeth at the apex. Inflorescence somewhat lax, the branches covered with dark glandular hairs; upper bracts linear-lanceolate. Calyx-segments linear, obtuse or subspathulate at the apex, fringed with glandular hairs; posterior segment the longest. Corolla-tube 5 lin. long; lips 10–11 lin. long. Staminodes slightly glandular. Capsule 1 in. long, with about 30 seeds to each valve.