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Celosia triloba

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Name

Identification
Celosia triloba E. Meyer ex Meissn. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Celosia triloba
  • Celosia trigyna

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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