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Calamus heudelotii

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Name

Identification
Calamus deerratus G. Mann & H. Wendl. [family PALMAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Calamus heudelotii Drude [family PALMAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Calamus heudelotii
  • Calamus deerratus
  • Calamus unrecorded
  • Calamus secundiflorus

Flora

Entry for CALAMUS Heudelotii Becc. ex Drude [family PALMAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 97, (1902) Author: (By C. H. Wright.)
Names
CALAMUS Heudelotii Becc. ex Drude [family PALMAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 112, 134.
Calamus sp Mann & Wendl. [family PALMAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 430, in note.
Information
Petiole short, flat and unarmed above, convex and with recurved spines up to 7 lin. long beneath; sheath tubular, oblique at the mouth, sparingly armed with short stout spines; rhachis in the upper part of the leaf acute and unarmed above, convex and armed with black-tipped recurved spines 3 lin. long beneath; leaflets about 6 lin. apart, linear-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, with pungent upward pointing setæ on both surfaces and margins; terminal cirrhus copiously armed with small recurved spines. Ultimate branches of spadix 2 in. long; bracteoles cupular, irregularly lacerate at the mouth. Fruit ovate, shortly apiculate; scales in about 15 rows, light brown, with a central furrow.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot, 372!Gambia Upper Guinea Ingram!
Notes
The material is, as stated by Mann and Wendland (l.c.), insufficient to allow a satisfactory description of this species being drawn up.

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