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Dicliptera carvalhoi

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Name

Identification
Dicliptera olitoria Mildbr. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Darbyshire,I., Dicliptera carvalhoi Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Darbyshire,I.,
Related name
  • Peristrophe unrecorded
  • Dicliptera olitoria
  • Dicliptera angustifolia
  • Dicliptera nemorum
  • Dicliptera carvalhoi
  • Dicliptera rogersii
  • Dicliptera cephalantha

Flora

Entry for DICLIPTERA Carvalhoi 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 Carvalhoi Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 371. —Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 323.
Information
Branches hairy or pubescent on the angles. Leaves up to 3 1/2 by 1/2 in., acute at both ends, softly hairy or glabrate; petiole 1/2 in. long. Spikelets in clusters, running into quasi-terminal oblong spikes; two bracts to the spikelet narrow, unequal, lower 2/3 by 1/12 in., linear with parallel sides, suddenly narrowed into a linear mucro; upper bract much shorter. Corolla slender. Capsule of Dicliptera.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. between the lower and middle Zambesi, Carvalho!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. between Mpata and Tanganyika Plateau, 2000–3000 ft., Whyte! Tanganyika Plateau at Fort Hill, Whyte!

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