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Cyanastrum cordifolium

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Name

Identification
Cyanastrum cordifolium Oliv. [family TECOPHILIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cyanastrum cordifolium
Common name
  • dee ànị̀ of the ground: ànì (BNO) edē àlà = ground cocoyam (auctt.) ǹkàsị àlà = ground cocoyam (DRR; Low (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • ikotọ (Dennett; JMD) (NIGERIA, EDO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • ọbọma (DRR; Lowe) (NIGERIA, EJAGHAM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • ḿkpọ̀ng ísọ̀ng (DRR; Lowe) (NIGERIA, EFIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • ebenensi (DRR; Lowe) (NIGERIA, EJAGHAM (Keaka)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for CYANASTRUM cordifolium Oliv. [family CYANASTRACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 331, (1898) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
CYANASTRUM cordifolium Oliv. [family CYANASTRACEAE], in Hook. Ic. t. 1965.
Information
Corm solid, globose, 1/2 in. diam. Leaves arising singly from the corm on long petioles, cordate-ovate, acute, glabrous, membranous, 3–6 in. long, with arcuate main veins arising from the apex of the petiole and reticulated intermediate veinlets. Peduncle 4–6 in. long, with a laxly sheathing bract-leaf from the base and another larger from the middle. Raceme lax, 2–3-flowered; pedicels short, erecto-patent; bracts oblong, membranous, persistent. Perianth blue, 1/3– 1/2 in. long. Stamens rather shorter than the perianth; filaments as long as the anthers.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Sierra del Crystal, Mann, 1644! Mfoa, Bates, 540!Lagos Upper Guinea interior of Yoruba, Millson, 89! Sent to Kew alive by Millen.Cameroons Upper Guinea near the shore, Kalbreyer, 89! Ambas Bay, Mann, 769!
Notes
There are in the Kew Herbarium incomplete specimens of a second species (C. Johnstoni, Baker), collected by Sir H. Johnston in 1889, on the hills between Lakes Tanganyika and Nyasa, at an elevation of 5000 feet. Of this the flowers are rather larger and about six in a raceme, with deciduous bracts, and the stem has a linear membranous bract-leaf at or below the middle. The leaves are said to be ample, and the flowers blue.

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