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Commelina zenkeri

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Name

Identification
Commelina zenkeri C.B.Clarke [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Commelina aethiopica
  • Commelina zenkeri

Flora

Entry for COMMELINA Zenkeri C. B. Clarke [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 Zenkeri C. B. Clarke [family COMMELINACEAE]
Information
Sparsely hairy. Stems cæspitose from a stout base, up to 12 in. long, branched, decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes; internodes up to 3 in. long but mostly short. Leaves 2 by 1–1 1/4 in., ovate, shortly acute, suddenly narrowed at the base, sessile. Peduncles solitary, few, scattered, exserted 0– 1/6 in. from the leaf-sheaths. Spathes 1/2– 2/3 by 1 in., hardly acute, minutely pubescent or glabrate; margins very shortly connate at the base. Petals blue when dry. Capsule 1/5 in. long, quadrate, compressed, 2-seeded. Seeds nearly 1/6 in. long, ellipsoid, smooth.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker & Staudt, 432!
Notes
Distributed from Berlin Herbarium as C. æthiopica, C. B. Clarke; but it is not that species.

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