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Celsia parvifolia

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Name

Identification
Celsia parvifolia Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Alectra parvifolia (Engl.) Schinz [family OROBANCHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Alectra orobanchoides Benth. [family OROBANCHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Alectra orobanchoides
  • Alectra parvifolia
  • Celsia parvifolia

Flora

Entry for CELSIA Linn. [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 Linn. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 929.
CELSIA parvifolia Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. x. 252 is
Alectra parvifolia Schinz. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Information
Calyx deeply 5-lobed or 5-partite; lobes imbricate. Corolla rotate, with scarcely any tube; lobes 5, broad, slightly unequal, the posticous lobe outside. Stamens 4 (the fifth entirely wanting), didynamous or subequal, affixed to the base of the corolla; filaments of the posticous stamens or of all bearded; anthers transverse or oblique, 1-celled by confluence. Style entire, compressed, dilated at the apex. Capsule globose or ovoid, septicidally 2-valved; valves usually bifid, with inflexed margins exposing the placentiferous column. Seeds many, very small, transversely rugose, wingless. —Biennial or perennial herbs, with the habit of Verbascum, woolly or glabrous. Leaves alternate, crenate, sinuate-dentate, pinnatifid or dissected. Racemes or spikes terminal, simple or more rarely branched. Corolla yellow, purple or red.
Range
Species about 40, natives of Southern Europe, Northern and Tropical Africa, Western Asia and Eastern India.

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