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Buchnera verdickii

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Name

Identification
Buchnera verdickii Skan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Buchnera henriquesii Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Buchnera henriquesii
  • Buchnera verdickii

Flora

Entry for BUCHNERA Verdickii Skan. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
BUCHNERA Verdickii Skan. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
BUCHNERA pusilla De Wild. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Études Fl. Katanga, 123, not of H. B. and K.
Information
A small plant only 1 1/2–2 3/4 in. high, more or less strongly branched from the base; branches hairy. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or linear, 3/4–1 3/4 in. long, 3/4–3 1/2 lin. broad, scabridly hairy on both sides. Inflorescence a terminal spike 7 1/2 lin. to 1 3/4 in. long; flowers rather numerous but somewhat loosely arranged, the lower sometimes distant; lower bracts like the leaves, exceeding the flowers; upper bracts shorter than the calyx; bracteoles lanceolate, acute, hairy, about 1 1/2 lin. long. Calyx hairy, about 5 lin. long, slightly accrescent, 4–5-toothed; teeth linear, acute, about 1 lin. long, 1 tooth often much reduced. Corolla-tube about as long as the calyx, pubescent; lobes obovate, about 2 1/2 lin. long and 3/4 lin. broad. Fruit oblong, about 2 1/2 lin. long and 3/4 lin. thick, apiculate.
Distribution
Congo South Central Katanga; Lukafu, Verdick, 574.

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