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Commelina acuminata

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Name

Identification
Commelina acuminata R.Br. [family COMMELINACEAE ] Commelina benghalensis L. [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Commelina acuminata
  • Commelina benghalensis

Flora

Entry for COMMELINA pyrrhoblepharis Hassk. [family COMMELINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 25, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
COMMELINA pyrrhoblepharis Hassk. [family COMMELINACEAE], in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 209, 295. —C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 190; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 155; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 427.
COMMELINA acuminata R. Br. [family COMMELINACEAE], in Salt, Abyss. Append. 63, name only, not of H. B. K.
COMMELINA saltiana Steud. [family COMMELINACEAE], Nomencl. Bot. ed. ii. 402.
Information
Stems 2 ft. long (at least), rooting freely by stout roots from the lower nodes; internodes up to 4 in. long, robust, glabrate. Leaves attaining 5 1/2 by 2 in., broadly elliptic, acuminate, when mature minutely pubescent, unequally and rather suddenly narrowed at the base into a quasi-petiole 0– 1/4 in. long; leaf-sheaths often with long rufous hairs at the mouth. Spathes 2 or 3, near together at the ends of the branches, hardly exserted from the leaf-sheaths, 2/3– 3/4 in. long, very broadly ovate, shortly acute, slightly hairy; margins connate at the base for 1/3 in. Flowers blue. Capsule small, 2-seeded. Seeds 1/12 in. long, round-ellipsoid, smooth.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Lotho, 7000–8000 ft., Schimper, 591! 1591! Mount Sholoda, 6700 ft., Schimper, 341; Adowa, Quartin-Dillon & Petit. Gondar, Rochet d'Héricourt! and without precise locality, Plowden!
Notes
Hasskarl does not describe the capsule, nor does he cite the number of Schimper he had. So far as his description goes of the large leaves with red hairs at the mouth of the leaf-sheaths and turbinate clustered spathes, his plant might have been the large state of C. benghalensis, which Schimper, 1591, closely resembles. The species really stands on the assumption that Plowden's examples (which contained one capsule) are truly conspecific with Schimper, 1591.

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