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Erythrocephalum nutans

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Name

Identification
Erythrocephalum nutans Benth. ex Oliver [family COMPOSITAE ] Arctotis ?? unrecorded [family COMPOSITAE ] Erythrocephalum longifolium Benth. ex Oliver [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Erythrocephalum longifolium
  • Erythrocephalum nutans
  • Arctotis ??

Flora

Entry for ERYTHROCEPHALUM nutans Benth. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
ERYTHROCEPHALUM nutans Benth. [family COMPOSITAE], Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 102, t. 69.
Arctotis?? n. 1 T. Thoms. [family ], in Speke, Journ., App. p. 638.
Information
Thinly white-arachnoid on the stem underside of leaves and involucre, nearly 1 ft. long. Stem striate simple below, about 6-leaved. Leaves broadly oval, obtuse or cuspidate, narrowed to the sessile or subsessile amplexicaul base, acutely and unequally denticulate, 2–7 by 1–3 1/2 in. Capitula solitary, terminal, drooping, 1 in. long (exclusive of the rays). Peduncles about 6 in. long. Involucral bracts lanceolate, outer 1/2 in. long, margins fimbriate-denticulate. Ligule about 1 in. long; inner lip of 2 lanceolate teeth about 1/5 in. long. Achenes scabrid, obsoletely pubescent.
Distribution
Nile Land 3° S. Lat. 33° E. Long, alt. 3800 ft., Speke and Grant! (flowers bright scarlet).

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