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Cyanotis mannii

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Identification
Cyanotis mannii C.B.Clarke [family COMMELINACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Cyanotis barbata D.Don [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
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  • Cyanotis barbata
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Flora

Entry for CYANOTIS Mannii C. B. Clarke [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 Mannii C. B. Clarke [family COMMELINACEAE], in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 258. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 156; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 434; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 80.
CYANOTIS abyssinica Hook. f. [family COMMELINACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 21, not of A. Rich.
Cyanopogon gen. nov Welw. ex C. B. Clarke [family ], in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 258.
Information
Hair scattered, shaggy. Growing in water; stem oblique at the base with many slender fibrous roots. Stems 2–12 in. long, much branched, with 3–21 heads, the internodes often curved, much grooved and distinctly quadrangular under the nodes. Basal leaves not seen; stem leaves 2–4 by 1/3 in., linear-oblong to linear. Heads 1/4 to 1/2 in. broad, of 1–4 clustered cymes; outermost bract ovate or ovate-oblong, scarcely longer than the heads. Cymes few-flowered, the falcate hairy bracts 2-ranked.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountain, 7000–9000 ft., Johnston, 34! Mann, 1310! 2140! Buea, Preuss, 800!Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in wooded places near Mangue and Mutollo, 2400–3800 ft., Welwitsch, 6652!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Clarence Peak, 9000 ft., Mann, 616!

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