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Capraria biflora

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Name

Identification
Capraria biflora L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CAPRARIA biflora Linn. [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
CAPRARIA biflora Linn. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 628. —Benth in DC. Prodr. x. 429.
Information
A more or less pilose erect branched undershrub, 2–4 ft. high, with a creeping rootstock; stem and branches terete. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 1–3 in. long, 1/4– 3/4 in. broad, acute, narrowed at the base, coarsely serrate. Flowers usually geminate, sometimes solitary; peduncles 2–6 lin. long. Calyx 2 1/4–2 3/4 lin. long; segments linear-lanceolate, 1 3/4–2 lin. long, acute, pilose, sparingly punctate. Corolla 3 1/4–3 3/4 lin. long; lobes oblong-elliptic, 2–2 1/2 lin. long, acute. Capsule 2 3/4 lin. long, ovoid-ellipsoid, obtuse, slightly emarginate, punctate.
Range
Evidently an introduced plant in Africa. It is a native of Tropical America.
Distribution
Gold Coast Upper Guinea Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 79! Accra, Brown, 377!

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