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Dicliptera alternans

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Name

Identification
Dicliptera alternans Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
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Entry for DICLIPTERA alternans Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
DICLIPTERA alternans Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 47.
Information
Stem weak, sparingly hairy. Leaves 2 1/4 by 1 in., elliptic, suddenly narrowed at either end, nearly glabrous; petiole 1/2– 3/4 in. long. Spike terminal; spikelets alternate, solitary, 1/12– 1/8 in. apart, in the axil of one of two opposite unequal minute floral leaves; two bracts to the spikelet subequal, 1/4 by 1/10 in., elliptic, subobtuse, green-veined, nearly glabrous. Corolla nearly 1/2 in. long. Capsule 1/6 in. long, somewhat pubescent; placentæ rising elastically from the base of the capsule.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Buea, Preuss, 604!

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