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Donax oligantha

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Identification
Donax oligantha Schum. [family SCITAMINEAE ] Marantochloa filipes (Benth. & Hook.f.)Hutchinson [family MARANTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by unknown, Clinogyne oligantha K.Schum. [family SCITAMINEAE ] Verified by unknown,
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  • Donax oligantha
  • Marantochloa filipes
  • Clinogyne oligantha

Flora

Entry for DONAX oligantha Schumann [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 293, (1898) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
DONAX oligantha Schumann [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 435.
Information
Stems glabrous, 5–6 ft. long; nodes also glabrous. Leaves ovate-oblong, conspicuously cuspidate, 3–4 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad, unequally rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides; sheaths glabrous, the lower 3–4 in. long; thickened free apex of petiole, 1/4 in. long. Inflorescence of two branches subtended at the base by large leaves; sheaths cylindrical, glabrous, 3/4 in. long; flowers in pairs, one nearly sessile, the other pedicellate. Ovary silky. Sepals lanceolate, 1/6 in. long. Outer staminodia obovate, twice as long as the calyx. Fruit globose, shining, 2-seeded, glabrous, 1/4 in. diam.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Munda, Sibange Farm, margin of the forest, Soyaux, 241!

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