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Commelina canescens

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Name

Identification
Commelina canescens Vahl [family COMMELINACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Commelina benghalensis L. [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Robert B. Faden, 1978
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  • Commelina canescens
  • Commelina benghalensis

Flora

Entry for COMMELINA benghalensis Linn. [family COMMELINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 7, (1900) Author: (By C. B. CLARKE.)
Names
COMMELINA benghalensis Linn. [family COMMELINACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 60;—Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 294; C. B. Clarke, Comm. et Cyrt. Beng. t. 4; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 370.
COMMELINA canescens Vahl [family COMMELINACEAE], Enum. ii. 173; Webb et Berth. Iles Canaries, Phyt. iii. pt. ii. 358, t. 239.
Information
diffuse; stem 6–12 in. long, often rooting at the knots; leaves ovate, suddenly narrowed at base, the quasi-petioles often with bright fulvous-red hairs, sometimes nearly glabrous; spathes oblique funnel-shaped, sessile or peduncled, solitary or 2–3 close together; capsule perfecting (usually) 5 seeds; surface of seeds wrinkled or strongly reticulate. null
Range
Found throughout Africa, and thence to Japan and the Moluccas.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3177! 3216!COAST REGION Knysna Div., Rehmann, 504! Uitenhage Div., Ecklon and Zeyher, 594! Harvey! Port Elizabeth, E.S.C.A. Herb., 208! Fort Beaufort Div., Cooper, 553!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 86! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1237! and without precise locality, Sanderson! Zululand, Gerrard, 1840!SOUTH AFRICA Drège, 8780! Harvey!
Notes
This plant, both in Africa and India, often produces at base nearly leafless shoots bearing abnormal flowers; these burrow into the earth and there mature small abnormal capsules of 1–2 cells, 1–2 seeds.

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