Centema angolensisHook.f. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Centema angolensis
Flora
Entry for CENTEMA angolensis Hook. f. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
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
CENTEMA angolensisHook. f. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 31. —Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 107; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 889; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 47 in obs.
Information
Stem erect, 2–3 ft. high, smooth or with obscure tubercles. Leaves opposite; blade 2 by 1/4– 1/3 in., hairy, ultimately glabrescent. Inflorescence 2 1/2 by 1/2 in., straw-coloured, dense, in fruit harsh and prickly; peduncled (apparently) or with 2 floral leaves at its base (i.e. sessile). Partial inflorescences usually with 2–3 fertile flowers; sterile flowers in fruit curved outwards, rigidly spinescent; hairs white, cells long, scabrid at the joinings of the cells, still finer than in the preceding genera. Stamens of the genus; staminodes obovate, toothed. Ovary glabrous.
