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Faurea intermedia

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Name

Identification
Faurea argentea Hutch. [family PROTEACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Faurea intermedia Engl. & Gilg. [family PROTEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Faurea argentea
  • Faurea intermedia

Flora

Entry for FAUREA intermedia Engl. & Gilg [family PROTEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 193, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
FAUREA intermedia Engl. & Gilg [family PROTEACEAE], in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 227.
Information
A tree 10–26 ft. high, with a rounded or pyramidal crown; bark with longitudinal clefts; young branches rather densely but shortly grey-silky. Leaves lanceolate, acute, up to 4 in. long and 1 in. wide, tapering downwards, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, greyish and glabrous beneath except near the densely pilose base; lateral nerves many, subparallel, connected by intramarginal loops, prominent on both surfaces; petiole 3 lin. long, grey-pilose. Spikes terminal on the branches, about 3 in. long, very dense; rhachis densely grey-tomentose; peduncle 1 in. long. Perianth pubescent outside; tube 3 lin. long; lobes 1 lin. long, acute, cucullate. Anthers apiculate. Ovary clothed with “snow-white” hairs thrice as long as itself; style as long as the perianth, faintly ribbed, narrowly clavate at the apex.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea on the Kubango above Kohi, 3400 ft., Baum, 912!
Notes
Dutch name ” waterbogenhout .”

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