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Craterostigma lanceolatum

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Identification
Isotype of Craterostigma lanceolatum (Engl.) Skan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Craterostigma nanum (E.Mey. ex Benth.) Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Craterostigma nanum
  • Craterostigma lanceolatum

Flora

Entry for CRATEROSTIGMA lanceolatum Skan. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
CRATEROSTIGMA lanceolatum Skan. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
CRATEROSTIGMA nanum Engl. var. lanceolatum [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 357.
Information
A rather densely pilose acaulescent herb 2 1/2–4 1/2 in. high. Leaves lanceolate, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 3 1/2–6 lin. broad, narrowed at the apex and base, obtuse, quite entire, 3–5-nerved; cauline leaves few, opposite, shorter than the radical leaves. Flowers racemose at the ends of the stem and short lateral branches; bracts ovate, somewhat narrowed at the apex or obtusely acuminate, up to 1 in. long and 1/2 in. broad; pedicels 1–1 3/4 lin. long. Calyx 3 1/2–4 lin. long, rather hispidly hairy; teeth 1–1 1/4 lin. long, oblong or broad at the base and subsetaceous above. Corolla glabrous; tube 3–3 1/2 lin. long; upper lip suborbicular, 2 lin. long, denticulate; lower lip 2 1/4 lin. long, 3 1/2 lin. broad, denticulate.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. wet rock on the top of Mount Zomba, Buchanan, 246! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 796!

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