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Cyathula erinacea

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Identification
Isotype of Cyathula erinacea Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Cyathula merkeri
  • Cyathula erinacea
  • Cyathula unrecorded
  • Cyathula lanceolata

Flora

Entry for CYATHULA erinacea Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CYATHULA erinacea Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 189. —Schinz in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173.
Information
Annual, herbaceous, erect. Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong-ovate or elliptic, acute, attenuate at the base, sparsely hirsute; inflorescence globose; perfect flowers arranged with other imperfect flowers in globose clusters; segments of the imperfect flowers finally produced into elongate bristles; staminodes dilated at the emarginate top; style short.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Turu, Stuhlmann, 4253! and without precise locality, Fischer, 70!
Notes
This description is copied from Schinz. Except by the short style (which I have not seen) the species hardly seems to differ from C. globulifera .

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