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Commelina latifolia

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Name

Identification
Commelina latifolia Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Charles Baron Clarke, Commelina latifolia Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family COMMELINACEAE ] Verified by Robert Bruce Faden,
Related name
  • Commelina forskaolii
  • Commelina imberbis
  • Commelina subaurantiaca
  • Commelina benghalensis
  • Commelina petersii
  • Commelina cuneata
  • Commelina demissa
  • Commelina neurophylla
  • Commelina latifolia
  • Commelina uncata
  • Commelina subulata
  • Commelina sagittifolia
  • Commelina indet.

Flora

Entry for COMMELINA benghalensis C. B. Clarke Var. β hirsuta [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 benghalensis C. B. Clarke Var. β hirsuta [family COMMELINACEAE], in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 160. —Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 87; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append. ii. 53; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 76.
COMMELINA hirsuta R. Br. [family COMMELINACEAE], in Salt, Abyss. Append. 63; Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295.
COMMELINA kilimandscharica K. Schum. [family COMMELINACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 134.
COMMELINA latifolia Hochst. [family COMMELINACEAE], partly not of A. Rich. as see DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 160.
Information
Leaves longer and more hairy, sometimes very villous with brown or rufous hairs.
Distribution
Togoland Upper Guinea Misahöhe, Baumann, 403!Abyssinia Nile Land Parkyns!Angola Lower Guinea Loanda; in thickets at Alto das Cruzes, Welwitsch, 6622!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Goodwin!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 4900 ft., Volkens, 2254!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Buchanan, 464!
Distribution (external)
common in India
Notes
Schweinfurth gives many localities for this variety in Eritrea; the numbers, however, he cites (so far as I have seen them) I should rather call typical C. benghalensis, Linn.; but no line can be drawn between the species and the Var. β hirsuta .

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