Entry for Cienfuegosia heteroclada Sprague [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
Cienfuegosia heterocladaSprague [family MALVACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1907: 48; J. B. Hutch. in New Phytol. 46: 127.
Information
A suffrutex, insavannah, sending up branches from a woody stock after burning; stems angular, glabrous, dark gland-dotted; flowers pink or purplish, 1 in. or more long; capsule obovoid, 3/4 in. long, gland-punctate; seeds densely clothed with long rusty hairs.
Habitat
savannah
Distribution
G. C. Zuarungu Dist. (Jan.) Vigne FH 4665!N. Nig. Kontagora (fl. & fr. Dec.舑Jan.)