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Hedyotis globosa

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Identification
Hedyotis globosa Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family RUBIACEAE ] Agathisanthemum globosum (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Brenan [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt,B.,
Related name
  • Agathisanthemum
  • Oldenlandia globosa
  • Agathisanthemum globosum
  • Hedyotis globosa

Flora

Entry for OLDENLANDIA globosa Hiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
OLDENLANDIA globosa Hiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Agathisanthemum globosum Klotzsch [family RUBIACEAE], in Peters Mossamb. p. 294
Hedyotis globosa Hochst. [family RUBIACEAE], in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 512; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 360.
Information
Somewhat shrubby and branched at the base, puberulous above, of a yellowish colour. Branches erect, obtusely 4-sided, 1 1/2 feet high. Leaves elliptical, obtuse or mucronate, somewhat narrowed to a sessile base, often fasiculate by the presence of abbreviated axillary shoots, 1–2 by 1/3–1 in.; stipules ovate tridentate, 1/4 in. long. Flowers tetramerous, 1/4 in. long, subsessile, crowded in solitary or ternate dense terminal globose heads 1/2–1 in. diameter. Calyx coriaceous, puberulous; lobes lanceolate-subulate, elongating in fruit; occasionally some minute intermediate subulate teeth extra; tube short. Corolla funnel-shaped, rather exceeding the calyx; throat somewhat hairy. Anthers half exserted. Capsule subglobose but somewhat compressed, 1/12– 1/10 in. broad, furrowed down the broader sides, loculicidal at the apex. Seeds angular.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Q. Dillon.

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