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Echium longifolium

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Identification
Echium creticum Forssk. [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Echium longifolium Delile [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by J. Klotz, 1961 Echium sericeum Vahl [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by P. Ascherson, 1881
Related name
  • Echium longifolium
  • Macromeria exserta
  • Echium creticum
  • Echium tinctorium
  • Echium elegans
  • Echium sericeum
  • Echium geniculatum
  • Echium humile

Flora

Entry for ECHIUM longifolium Delile [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
ECHIUM longifolium Delile [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Égypte, 184, t. 16, fig. 3. —DC. Prodr. x. 23. Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 115.
Information
Annual, with slender root. Stems branched, with copious spreading bristles. Stem-leaves small, sessile, linear-oblong; radical-leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole. Spikes many, lax; bracts lanceolate, 4–6 lin. long. Calyx very bristly, 4 lin. long; segments lanceolate. Corolla bright blue, twice as long as the calyx; lobes small, orbicular. Stamens reaching to the tip of the corolla-lobes. Nuts ovoid, 2 lin. long, rugose on the outer face.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 2063! in Wadi Mahas, Wady Dongola and near El Korehr, Ehrenberg ex Schweinfurth.
Distribution (external)
Egypt

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