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Cyathula orthacantha

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Identification
Pupalia erecta Suess. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Cyathula orthacantha (Hochst. ex Schweinf.) Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Cyphocarpa orthacantha
  • Pupalia erecta
  • Pupalia orthacantha
  • Cyathula orthacantha
  • Cyathula kilimandscharica

Flora

Entry for CYPHOCARPA orthacantha C. B. Cl. [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
CYPHOCARPA orthacantha C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Pupalia orthacantha Hochst. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Bot. Zeit. 1856, 598, name only; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 181; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 206.
Cyathula orthacantha Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 108, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173.
Information
An erect annual, hairy (not tomentose). Leaves opposite; blade 1 1/4 by 3/5 in., elliptic, triangular at either end; petiole 1/8 in. long. Inflorescence terminal, 2 by 3/4 in., dense, straw-coloured, hairy; partial inflorescences crowded, of several fertile flowers; hairs in the flower-clusters copious; bracts of the rudimentary flowers ending in rigid yellow spines standing out prominently, not hooked. Filaments linear to the base; staminodes very short, oblong, emarginate. Ovary obovoid, glabrous; style longer than the ovary; stigma small.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Jaja, 4000–6000 ft., Schimper, 2153!

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