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Celosia trigyna

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Identification
Celosia trigyna L. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Achyranthes decumbens
  • Lestibudesia trigyna
  • Achyranthes paniculata
  • Celosia digyna
  • Celosia adoensis
  • Celosia trigyna
  • Celosia laxa
  • Celosia caudata
Common name
  • kure pallaandi (PF) (NIGER, FULA-FULFULDE (Niger)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • putur u mbam (JB) warko (JGA) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • jarfundu (MM) kure pallaandi = lizard’s arrows (MM) nanafo (JMD) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • a-kσkσrσ-a-ro-pet (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • balansana (RES) nannaho (JMD; RES) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • jarfundu (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (East)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • Woolflower, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • (Guinea-Bissau) bórbórò-déo (DS) (GUINEA-BISSAU, FULA-PULAAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kalanbabié (B&D) kanébaguyé (B&D) (IVORY COAST, ABURE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • furayиamo = death grass (Hayes) (GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • tono (FRI) yilina (Darko; FRI) (GHANA, GRUSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bokan gida (JMD) nanafa (BM) nanafo (BM) nannafa (JMD) nanwafa (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (West)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ajε-fawo (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KRIO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • tegσ (def.-i) (JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • o légir (JB) o rigil (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ajẹfọ́wo see under C. isertii (JMD) ajewafo (N&E; CWvE) ajítàn, jí: to awake; tàn: to shine (Millson) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nanafo (K&B) (UPPER VOLTA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • èlí-émì-ọ́nụ̄ = eating and pulling a face (KW) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Awka)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • banjaraburu (AJML) (IVORY COAST, KRU-BETE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for CELOSIA trigyna Linn. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 402, (1912) Author: By T. COOKE and C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
CELOSIA trigyna Linn. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Mant. 212;—Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 240; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 211; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 140 (excl. syn.); Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 99; E. G. Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 39; Baker & C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 19.
CELOSIA triloba Meisn. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. (1843) 448 (548).
Achyranthes decumbens Forsk. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Fl. Ægypt-Arab. 47, 48.
Achyranthes paniculata Forsk. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Fl. Ægypt-Arab. 47, 48.
Lestibudesia trigyna R. Br. [family ], Prodr. 414.
Information
a branched slender somewhat straggling glabrous herb; leaves 1–3 in. long, ovate, hastate-ovate, or lanceolate, with cuneate base, glabrous; petioles of the lower leaves reaching 1 in. long, slender; inflorescence in spike-like, sometimes paniculate racemes 3–12 in. long; cymes interrupted; perianth-segments 1 1/4 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, equal, straw-coloured, usually 1-nerved; stamens without interposed teeth; filaments united into a cup at the base, free portion 1/4 lin. long, subulate; anthers short, elliptic, 2-celled; style very short, about 1/2 lin. long; stigmas 3, recurved, 1 1/4 lin. long; capsule 1 lin. long, subglobose, circumscissile a little below the middle; seeds flattened, subreniform, 1/2 lin. in diam., smooth and shining, black. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Madagascar.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland; by the St. Johns River, Drège! forest above Tiger Flat, near Port St. John, 300 ft., Galpin, 2855! Natal; Durban, Rehmann, 8741! Schlechter, 2790! Inanda, Wood, 529! near the Umgeni River, Krauss, 238! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 25! Delagoa Bay; north-west of Lorenzo Marquez, Bolus, 9750!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Shiluvane, Junod, 570! Rimers Creek, near Barberton, Thorncroft, 3131!

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