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Clinogyne purpurea

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Name

Identification
Clinogyne purpurea Ridl. [family MARANTACEAE ] Marantochloa purpurea (Ridl.) Milne-Redh. [family MARANTACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Marantochloa purpurea
  • Clinogyne purpurea

Flora

Entry for DONAX purpurea Schumann [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 293, (1898) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
DONAX purpurea Schumann [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 440.
Clinogyne purpurea Ridley [family MARANTACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1887, 132.
Information
Stems slender, many from one rhizome, 2–3 ft. long. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, 6–8 in. broad, glaucous-green above, pinnately variegated with streaks of white. Panicle erect, with slender spreading hispid branches; bracts oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. long. Flowers small, blue-purple. Sepals lanceolate, obtuse, 1/6 in. long. Petals lorate, obtuse, longer than the staminodia. Lip small, narrow. Style longer than the staminodia. Fruit globose, hispid, 1/4 in. long, shining, scarlet, usually 2-seeded.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Golungo Alto; common in woods by streams, 2000–2500 ft., Welwitsch, 6440!
Notes
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium.

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