Celsia interruptaFresen. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Verbascum interruptum(Fresen.) Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Verbascum scabridum
Verbascum interruptum
Celsia valerianaefolia
Celsia pedunculosa
Verbascum pubescens
Celsia sudanica
Celsia valerianiifolia
Celsia pubescens
Celsia interrupta
Flora
Entry for CELSIA interrupta Fresen. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
CELSIA interruptaFresen. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Flora, 1838, 605. —Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 246, partly; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 111, partly? Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 375, partly.
Information
A slender biennial about 2 ft. high, glabrous on the stem and leaves, sprinkled with minute pale yellow, very shortly stalked glands on the inflorescence; stem simple, striate, herbaceous. Leaves interruptedly pinnate or very irregularly pinnatisect, up to 4 in. long; larger segments oblong-lanceolate, the terminal one only a little larger than the largest lateral, irregularly dentate; lateral segments sometimes very narrow, often reduced to mere teeth a line or two long; petioles of the upper leaves with semi-amplexicaul dentate or incised stipule-like appendages at the base. Panicle nearly 1 ft. long, sparingly branched at the base; bracts 1/3 in. long, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, scarcely cordate at the base, some-times obscurely few-toothed in the broadest part; pedicels 9–10 lin. long, ascending. Calyx 3 1/4 lin. long; segments lanceolate, acuminate, 3/4 lin. broad. Corolla yellow, 2/3– 3/4 in. in diam. Capsule (immature) subglobose, glabrous, much shorter than the calyx.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Samen, Rüppel, and without precise locality, Schimper, 521!
