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Cryptolepis welwitschii

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Name

Identification
Cryptolepis welwitschii Hiern [family APOCYNACEAE ] Cryptolepis oblongifolia (Meisn.) Schltr. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cryptolepis oblongifolia
  • Cryptolepis welwitschii

Flora

Entry for CRYPTOLEPIS Welwitschii Hiern [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
CRYPTOLEPIS Welwitschii Hiern [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 677, not of Schlechter.
CRYPTOLEPIS myrtifolia Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1895, 301, name only; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw., i. 677.
Ectadiopsis Welwitschii Baill. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (not of Britten).
Ectadiopsis lanceolata Baill. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1889, ii. 802–803 (82–83 by error); K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 219.
Ectadiopsis myrtifolia Baill. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1889, ii. 802–803 (82–83 by error); K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 219.
Information
A small shrub, erect, scrambling or decumbent; branches more or less flexuose, minutely scaberulous, reddish. Leaves spreading, glabrous; petiole 1/2–1 lin. long; blade 3/4–2 in. long, 1 1/2–10 lin. broad, varying from linear or linear-lanceolate to elliptic, acute, rounded or subacute at the base, more or less distinctly 3-nerved. Cymes axillary, subsessile, small, densely many- (rarely less than 20-) flowered, minutely bracteate; pedicels 1–2 lin. long. Sepals 3/4 lin. long, ovate, obtuse, minutely ciliate. Corolla glabrous on both sides, white; tube 1 lin. long, campanulate; lobes 1 1/4 lin. long, 3/4–1 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, not ciliate; sinus-pockets truncate, entire or denticulate, not ciliate. Coronal-lobes arising from the middle of the corolla-tube, 1/2 lin. long, fleshy, subclavate. obtuse or subacute. Anthers acuminate, connivent in a cone.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; near Huilla, in thickets amongst short grass, Welwitsch, 4203! in thickets near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 4206!
Notes
The leaves of this plant seem to vary very much in breadth. To this species should probably be referred Ectadiopsis scandens, De Wild. Études Fl. Katanga, i. 108; collected in the Congo Free State at Lukafu, Verdick, 341.

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