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Isoglossa nervosa

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Name

Identification
Isoglossa nervosa C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
Related name
  • Isoglossa nervosa

Flora

Entry for ISOGLOSSA nervosa C. B. Clarke [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
ISOGLOSSA nervosa C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Herb, 5 ft. high. Leaves up to 3 1/2 by 2 in., rhomboid-ovate; nerves beneath prominent, scabrous hairy; base acuminate; petiole 1 1/2 in. long; uppermost leaves smaller, nearly sessile, subcordate. Panicle up to 12 by 8 in., glandular hairy. Corolla 3/4 in. long, white; tube longer than the lips; otherwise nearly as I. glandulifera.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountain, 7000–8000 ft., Mann, 2009! Johnston, 63!
Notes
“Nearly allied to, if not identical with, I. laxa ,” Oliv. in Trens. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 346.

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