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Hypoestes acuminata

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Identification
Hypoestes acuminata Baker [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Hypoestes triflora
  • Hypoestes acuminata

Flora

Entry for HYPOESTES triflora Roem. et Schultes [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
HYPOESTES triflora Roem. et Schultes [family ACANTHACEAE], Syst. i. 141. —Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 506; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 162; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 50; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 557; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 111, 243; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 394; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 333.
HYPOESTES adoensis A. Rich. [family ACANTHACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 162; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 394.
HYPOESTES adoensis Engl. var. Andersoni [family ACANTHACEAE], l.c. 395; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 333.
HYPOESTES simensis Hochst. ex Solms-Laub. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 111; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 395.
HYPOESTES inæqualis Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 50.
HYPOESTES ciliata Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 51, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 333.
HYPOESTES acuminata Hochst. ex Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 506.
Justicia triflora Forsk. [family ACANTHACEAE], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. 4; Vahl, Symb. i. 3.
Information
Stems 1–4 ft. long, more or less hairy. Leaves up to 3 by 1 1/2 in., ovate, entire or crenulate, obscurely toothed, hispid with scattered white 1–4-celled hairs; cystoliths irregularly scattered, many transverse, conspicuous; petiole 1/4–1 1/4 in. long. Heads of 1–5 (often 3) 1-flowered spikelets, often apparently terminal on lateral branches 1/2–2 in. long; floral leaves much reduced, often shorter than the spikelets. Outer 2 bracts of spikelet free, 1/3 in. long, narrowly obovate-oblong. Sepals free. Corolla 3/4 in. in total length, pink or white. Filaments glabrous. Style with a few long hairs. Capsule 1/2 in. long, with 4 tubercled seeds.
Range
Extending eastward to India.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Saganeiti, in Goua Gorge, 6800–7100 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1290!Abyssinia Nile Land Salt! Pearce! Schimper, 108! 149! 340! 386! 389! 418! 600! 641! 926! 934! 939! 1104! 1111! 1491! 1985! 2818! Quartin-Dillon & Petit! Petit! Roth, 484!British East Africa Nile Land Ruwenzori, 5000–6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7856! 8000–9000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7560!Cameroons Upper Guinea Buea, 6500–8000 ft., Preuss, 732! 745! Cameroon Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 1979!Fernando Po Upper Guinea 5000 ft., Mann, 580!
Notes
H. ciliata, Lindau, is described as having the calyx divided only half-way down, but I find it divided to the base in the type specimen. H. adoensis, Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 111, is said to be Dicliptera roxburghiana, Nees. This latter is a typical Dicliptera, abundant in India, and though not yet known from Tropical Africa, several of the Tropical African Diclipteras are very near it. If, however, Hypoestes adoensis, Solms-Laub., was really one of these, it was not congeneric even with Hypoestes adoensis, A. Rich.

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