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Combesia abyssinica

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Identification
Combesia abyssinica A.Rich. [family CRASSULACEAE ] Disporocarpa pharnaceoides (Fisch. & Mey.) Schweinf. & As [family CRASSULACEAE ] Isotype of Crassula alata (Viv.) Berger [family CRASSULACEAE ] (stored under name); Crassula pharnaceoides Fisch. & C.A.Mey. [family CRASSULACEAE ] Tillaea pharnaceoides Hochst. [family CRASSULACEAE ] Verified by Schimper, Crassula campestris (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Walp. [family CRASSULACEAE ]
Related name
  • Combesia abyssinica
  • Disporocarpa pharnaceoides
  • Crassula pharnaceoides
  • Tillaea pharnaceoides
  • Crassula alata
  • Crassula campestris

Flora

Entry for TILLÆA pharnaceoides Hochst. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 385, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
TILLÆA pharnaceoides Hochst. [family ], in Schimp. Hb. Abyssin. 104.
Combesia abyssinica A. Rich. [family CRASSULACEAE], Fl. Abyss. i. 307; Walp. Ann. ii. 667.
Crassula pharnaceoides C. A. Meyer [family CRASSULACEAE], (Disporocarpa), Ind. Sem. viii. 56; Walp. Rep. ii. 254.
Crassula campestris Eckl. et Zeyh. [family CRASSULACEAE], Herb. 1873; Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 351.
Crassula Turrita Thunb. [family CRASSULACEAE], is erroneously cited as a synonym in Walp. Rep. ii. 254.
Information
Stem decumbent or erect, branched, leafy, internodes longer than the leaves. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, 2–4 lines long, connate at the base. Flowers in dense axillary clusters. Calyx-segments very acute, lanceolate, exceeding the petals. Petals connate, “lanceolate acuminate, or hair-pointed.” Carpels reddish.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Quartin-Dillon.Upper Guinea Camaroons mountains, 9000 ft. (Nov.), Mann!

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