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Celosia welwitschii

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Name

Identification
Celosia welwitschii Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Hermbstaedtia welwitschii C.B.Clarke [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Hermbstaedtia angolensis
  • Celosia welwitschii
  • Hermbstaedtia welwitschii

Flora

Entry for HERMBSTÆDTIA angolensis C. B. Clarke [family ]
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
HERMBSTÆDTIA angolensis C. B. Clarke [family ]
Celosia Welwitschii Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 179, 180, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 100; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 885; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 5, 104, fig. 1 A; not Hermbstædtia Welwitschii, J. G. Baker.
Information
Nearly glabrous; stem 1–2 ft. high. Leaves 1 1/2 by 1/3 in., oblong. Spikes terminal, 1/2– 2/3 in. wide, dense, scarious straw-coloured, cylindric or ovoid. Perianth 1/4 in. long; segments broadly oblong, subacute, 3-nerved on the back. Staminal tube divided at the top into 5 broadly ovate segments, rounded at the top; on the summit of each is a minute linear filament carrying the oblong anther. Style rather short (hardly half the length of the young capsule), with 3 short recurved branches. Capsule narrowly ellipsoid, several-seeded.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla, 3800–5500 ft., Welwitsch, 6486! 6490

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