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Centema gracilenta

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Name

Identification
Centema gracilenta Hiern [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Centemopsis gracilenta (Hiern) Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Centemopsis gracilenta
  • Centema gracilenta

Flora

Entry for PSILOTRICHUM gracilentum C. B. Cl. [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
PSILOTRICHUM gracilentum C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Centema gracilenta Hiern. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 890.
Information
Glabrous, except the axis of the spikes. Branches 1–2 ft. long, remotely dividing. Leaves opposite, 2 1/2 by 1/12 in. Spikes simple, terminal on long peduncles, 1 1/2 in. long when young (3 in. long in fruit); axis very hairy. Perianth of the genus, 1/8 in. long, nearly glabrous. Ovary of the genus; style rather longer than the ovary; stigma small, capitate.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla, 3800–5500 ft., Welwitsch, 6511!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mendwe, Johnson, 315!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Fort Young, Nicholson!
Notes
The flowers are solitary, and Hiern states that there are no staminodes; so that the genus is not Centema .

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