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Cyanotis abyssinica

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Name

Identification
Cyanotis abyssinica A.Rich. [family COMMELINACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Cyanotis barbata D.Don [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Cyanotis djurensis
  • Cyanotis polyrrhiza
  • Cyanotis barbata
  • Cyanotis abyssinica
  • Cyanotis hirsuta
  • Cyanotis longifolia
  • Cyanotis parasitica
  • Commelina hirsuta

Flora

Entry for CYANOTIS hirsuta Fisch. et Mey. [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
CYANOTIS hirsuta Fisch. et Mey. [family COMMELINACEAE], Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. viii. 57. —C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 254; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 155; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 433; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append. ii. 59; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 136 (incl. var. β glabra); Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 431.
CYANOTIS abyssinica A. Rich. [family COMMELINACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 344, t. 98; Hassk. Commel. Ind. 139, and in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295.
CYANOTIS barbata Schweinf. [family COMMELINACEAE], Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295 partly, not of D. Don.
Zygomenes abyssinica Hassk. [family ], in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 211.
Commelina hirsuta Hochst. ex C. B. Clarke [family COMMELINACEAE], in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 254, not of R. Br. nor of Kunth.
Information
Softly shaggy, or nearly glabrous. Bulb 1/2 in. in diam., eatable (Roth). Stem 3–15 in. long, suberect, often divided, with many heads, roundish, sometimes with spreading hair on all sides, often with a dense line of shaggy hair on one side, sometimes nearly glabrate. Leaves in Schimper's type collections, attaining 4 by 1/2 in., oblong-lanceolate. Inflorescences 6–15 on one stem, 1/2– 3/4 in. in diam., of one or several clustered cymes; outer bracts sometimes 1–2 in. long with elongate falcate recurved tips, sometimes ovate abbreviated 1/3 in. long; cymes many-flowered; bracteoles 1/4– 1/3 in. long, falcate-lanceolate, very regularly imbricated in two rows, or in other heads on the same stem, obscurely (or not) 2-ranked. Capsule 1/8 in. long.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Mount Kube, 5900 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1511! Mogod Valley, 4200 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1554! Ginda, 2600 ft., Schweinfurth, 395; Bizen, 5800 ft., Schweinfurth, 1885; Habab, 7800 ft., Hildebrandt, 371!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro, 8700 ft., Volkens, 1915!Abyssinia Nile Land near Adowa, Schimper, 14! Quartin-Dillon! Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 59, Agrima, Schimper, 584! near Jelajeranne (Tchelatchekenneh), Schimper, 1556! Begemeder; Debra Tabor, Schimper, 1107! Shireh province, Quartin-Dillon! Wojerat province, Quartin-Dillon! Shoa, Petit! Ankober, Roth, 176! and without precise locality, Plowden!British East Africa Nile Land Leikipia, 6000–8000 ft., Thomson! near Mombasa, Taylor.Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Mount Zomba Plateau, 5000–6000 ft., Whyte! Zomba and vicinity, 2500–3500 ft., Whyte!
Notes
The last-cited two collections of Whyte do not show the root; many of the species of Cyanotis are so much alike that I do not feel at all confident (in the absence of a bulb) that Whyte's specimens belong to C. hirsuta .

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