Hypoestes preussiiLindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Hypoestes verticillarisR.Br. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Hutchinson & Dalziel, Hypoestes forskaolii(Vahl) R.Brown [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Hypoestes preussii
Hypoestes verticillaris
Hypoestes forskaolii
Flora
Entry for HYPOESTES Preussii Lindau [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 PreussiiLindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 48.
Information
Leaves up to 5 by 1 1/2 in., elliptic, long acuminate, pubescent on the nerves and with scattered hairs, very shortly narrowed into the petiole; otherwise as H. verticillaris, R. Br.
This certainly does not match any of the numerous examples above referred to H. verticillaris, but it is difficult to say in what its specific difference exists. Lindau says the “bracteoles are adnate to the 2-toothed involucre” (which he states of some other species of Hypoestes). There is no union between the bracteoles and bracts; but, as in many Acanthaceæ, the bracteoles cling or stick somewhat to the bract which is external to them.
