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Celosia loandensis

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Name

Identification
Celosia loandensis Baker [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Celosia dewevreana
  • Celosia echinulata
  • Celosia loandensis

Flora

Entry for CELOSIA loandensis Baker [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CELOSIA loandensis Baker [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 277.
CELOSIA laxa Hiern. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 885 partly, not of Schumacher.
Information
A nearly glabrous rambler, the numerous elongate panicle-bearing branches springing at right angles from a main branch. Leaves petioled; blade 1 1/2–2 in. long, ovate-lanceolate. Inflorescences 2–6 by 1/3– 1/2 in.; lateral cymes small, few-flowered, or often 1-flowered, not confluent. Perianth 1/8 in. long; segments oblong, acute, scarious, straw-coloured, on the back many-nerved, often somewhat fuscous. Filaments linear, without interjected teeth; anthers oblong. Style hardly half the length of the young capsule, with 2 long ascending branches. Capsule about as long as the perianth, usually 2–3-seeded.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Smith!Angola Lower Guinea Loanda, Welwitsch, 6537B! Gossweiler, 363! Golungo Alto, 1000–2400 ft., Welwitsch, 6578.
Notes
The styles I find in these plants uniformly 2-fid. But the plants will not match C. laxa in habit or inflorescence.

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