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Cyanotis longifolia

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Name

Identification
Cyanotis homblei De Wild. [family COMMELINACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Cyanotis longifolia Benth. [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Cyanotis lanata
  • Cyanotis djurensis
  • Cyanotis abyssinica
  • Cyanotis homblei
  • Cyanotis longifolia
  • Cyanotis scaberula
Common name
  • muso kafo jilo ba, ba: large (Fox) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • buli (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ẹbọnọgu (Boston) ọkọ ẹbọnọgu = male ẹbọnọgu (Boston) (NIGERIA, IGALA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Cyanotis longifolia [family COMMELINACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Cyanotis longifolia [family COMMELINACEAE]
Information
Plants c. 350(-900) mm tall, erect with a lanate pubescence of long, thin, straight, soft hairs, especially dense at base of leaf-cluster. Roots fusiform, long, swollen part, when young, densely covered by root hairs. Leaf-cluster with c. 5 long, erect, flat, linear leaves, c. 300 x 10 mm. Fertile shoots c. 450 mm tall with few stem-leaves reduced above to spathes bearing a few terminal and axillary, dense, sickle-shaped cymes; spathes recurved. Flowers with calyx-lobes bearing an apical tuft of long erect hairs or lanate all over; co­rolla blue; filaments with blue, beaded hairs, fusiform apically; style bearded. Capsule ob­long-globose, c. 5 mm long; seeds typical.
Use
5. Cyanotis longifolia Benth. in Hook., Niger Fl. 543 (1849); C. B. CI. in A. DC, Monogr. Phan. 3: 259, excl. var. caespitosa C. B. CI. (1881), and in F.T.A. 8: 81 (1901); Brenan in Kew Bull. 1952: 205 (1953) and in F.W.T.A. edn 2,3: 37 (1968); Morton in J. Linn. Soc, Bot. 60: 195 (1967); Schreiber et al. in F.S.W.A. 159: 10 (1969). Type: Congo, Curror 1 (K, holo.!).
Range
A variable species recorded from northern South West Africa/Namibia; common in tropical Africa but ap­parently rare in the south. Map 46.

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