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Identification
Isotype of Cyathula lancifolia Merr. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Cyathula prostrata (L.) Blume [family AMARANTHACEAE ]
Related name
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  • Cyathula prostrata
  • Achyranthes prostrata
  • Justicia plicata
  • `var. prostrata
  • Justicia flava
  • Cyathula achyranthoides
  • Achyranthes debilis
  • Cyathula lancifolia
  • Adhatoda plicata
  • Cyathula pedicellata
  • Tyloglossa plicata
  • Pupalia micrantha

Flora

Entry for CYATHULA geminata Moquin [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 geminata Moquin [family AMARANTHACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 330. —Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 494; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 108.
CYATHULA prostrata Durand & Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], Études Fl. Congo, i. 233, partly.
Achyranthes geminata? Schumach. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl. 138.
Information
Stem and leaves nearly glabrate. Leaves 5 by 2 1/8 in., gradually narrowed at either end, subsessile. Partial inflorescences 1/8 in. long, with 1 perfect flower, oblong, or in fruit ellipsoid, scarcely ovoid; otherwise as C. prostrata, Blume.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Lutete, 2000 ft., Hens, A, 233!Nigeria Upper Guinea at the confluence of the Niger and Benue Rivers, Barter!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Vogel, 253! 258!
Notes
I here describe the plant of Vogel, the “type” of Bentham. As to Cyathula geminata, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 330, it is copied only from Schumacher, and differed from C. prostrata in having three spikes at the end of the branches—instead of one—a difference of no importance. In spite of the authority of Bentham and Schinz, I doubt whether C. geminata is separable from C. prostrata .

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