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Celosia pandurata

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Name

Identification
Celosia globosa Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Isotype of Celosia pandurata Bak. [family AMARANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Celosia pandurata
  • Celosia globosa

Flora

Entry for CELOSIA pandurata 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 pandurata Baker [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 276.
CELOSIA cuneifolia Baker [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 296 partly (i.e. as to Meller's example which has the lower leaves 3-lobed).
Information
Stem erect, 2 1/2 ft. high, divided, thinly hairy. Lower leaves long-petioled; blade 3–4 in. long, pandurate, sub-3-lobed, the two lateral lobes ovate or oblong, 1 1/2 in. long. Panicles 1/2 to 4 in. long, 1/3 in. broad, condensed into continuous somewhat dense pseudospikes, scarious, straw-coloured, in fruit fuscous. Perianth 1/6 in. long; segments oblong, acute, when young 1-nerved or obscurely nerved, in fruit sometimes strongly 5-nerved. Filaments linear, without interjected teeth; anthers oblong. Style longer than 1/2 the capsule, with 2 ascending linear branches. Capsule nearly as long as the perianth, usually about 3-seeded.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Musa, Holst, 3124!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. below Shigogo on the Lower Zambesi, Kirk! lower part of the Shire Valley, Meller!

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