Entry for BUFORRESTIA Mannii C. B. Clarke [family COMMELINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 25, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
BUFORRESTIA ManniiC. B. Clarke [family COMMELINACEAE], in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 233, t. 6. —Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 432.
Information
Nearly glabrous. Stem 2 ft. long. Leaves up to 6 1/2 by 2 3/4 in., tip shortly acuminate, base cuneate. Peduncles none near the end of stem, but boring through the base of the leaf-sheaths, 1–3 in. long. Panicle 2 by 3/4 in., about 12-flowered; pedicels 3 or 4 in each false whorl, 1/2 in. long, with an oblong bract about 1/4 in. long at their base. Sepals 1/2 in. long in fruit, elliptic-lanceolate, striated, glabrous, “green” (Mann); in flower hardly 1/4 in. long. Petals white (Mann). Capsule 1/4– 1/3 in. long, oblong, glabrous, with 4–7 seeds in each cell.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea Mann, 96.
Notes
The material consists of 1 3/4 in. of the middle of the stem, with 2 leaves and 2 peduncles; and of 1 1/4 in. of the tip of the stem with 3 leaves.
