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Cassytha americana

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Name

Identification
Cassytha americana Nees [family LAURACEAE ] (stored under name); Cassytha brasiliensis Mart. ex Nees [family LAURACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cassytha americana
  • Cassytha brasiliensis
  • Cassytha filiformis

Flora

Entry for CASSYTHA filiformis Linn. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 493, (1912) Author: By O. STAPF.
Names
CASSYTHA filiformis Linn. [family ], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 35;—Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xv. i. 255; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 182; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 915; Engl. ex Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 238; De Wild. in Études Fl. Bas et Moyen Congo, i. 244; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 188.
CASSYTHA guineensis Meisn. [family ], l.c. (incl. var. Livingstonii).
CASSYTHA americana Meisn. [family ], l.c. 256.
Cassyta guineensis Schum. & Thonn. [family CACTACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl. 199; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 497.
Cassyta americana Nees [family CACTACEAE], Syst. Laur. 644.
Information
stems filiform, bright yellow, glabrous or more or less pubescent to tomentose; leaf-scales ovate to lanceolate-subulate, acute; inflorescences loosely spicate, usually solitary, spreading, 1–2 in. long, few- to 10-flowered; flowers hermaphrodite, white, up to about 1 lin. long; bracteoles ciliolate; outer perianth-segments very similar to the bracteoles, inner broadly ovate-oblong, obtuse, 3 times longer; filaments of the first whorl broader than the anther, thinly membranous, of the second narrower than the anther; staminodes triangular, fleshy; fruit crowned with the persistent limb, 2–3 lin. in diam. null
Range
Widely spread throughout the tropics.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland; between Umtentu River and Umzimkula River, Drège! Delagoa Bay: Lourenço Marques, Schlechter, 11547!

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