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Cynoglossum lancifolium

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Identification
Cynoglossum lancifolium Hook.f. [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hutchinson; Dalziel, Cynoglossum amplifolium A.DC. [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by Heine, H.,
Related name
  • Cynoglossum lanceolatum
  • Cynoglossum micranthum
  • Cynoglossum mannii
  • Cynoglossum amplifolium
  • Cynoglossum lancifolium

Flora

Entry for CYNOGLOSSUM lancifolium Hook. f. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CYNOGLOSSUM lancifolium Hook. f. [family BORAGINACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 207. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 353.
Information
A herb 3–4 ft. high. Stem branched, hispid-pilose. Leaves hispid-pilose, cauline broadly oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, tapering into a short petiole, 3–4 in. long, 2–2 1/2 in. wide; lateral nerves about 4 pairs almost parallel with the midrib. Cymes in a terminal panicle, up to 1 ft. long, bracteate below; pedicels 6–9 lin. long and deflexed in fruit. Calyx adpressed-hairy outside; lobes ovate, 1 1/2 lin. long, 3/4 lin. wide. Corolla 3 lin. in diam., blue; tube campanulate; lobes rounded. Anthers 1/2 lin. long. Nutlets 5 lin. in diam., with numerous glochidiate spines on the sides and a single row down the face.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountain, 7000–9000 ft., Mann, 1266! 2004! Johnston, 10! 57!

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