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Kanahia consimilis

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Identification
Isotype of Kanahia consimilis N. E. Br. [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Asclepias fruticosa L. [family APOCYNACEAE ] Verified by Unknown, Kanahia laniflora R.Br. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by D.J. Goyder,
Related name
  • Gomphocarpus fruticosus
  • Kanahia consimilis
  • Kanahia laniflora
  • Asclepias fruticosa
  • Asclepias glaberrima

Flora

Entry for KANAHIA consimilis N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
KANAHIA consimilis N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Information
Stems, leaves, inflorescence, and flowers exactly as in K. glaberrima, except the following characters. Coronal-lobes shorter than the staminal-column, 1–1 1/4 lin. long, oblong, somewhat obliquely truncate at the top, complicate, with the apical angles of the inflexed sides more or less produced, acute. Pollen-masses long and narrow, 2/3 lin. long (excluding the caudicles), 1/10– 1/9 lin. broad, much compressed; caudicles rather longer and more slender than those of K. glaberrima. Follicles 1–1 1/4 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. thick, turgid or somewhat inflated, ovoid, obtuse or with a short recurved point. Seeds 1 1/3–1 1/2 lin. long.
Distribution
Lagos Upper Guinea on an island in the Obo-Oba River, Millen! Idagun, on river-banks, Rowland!Cameroons Upper Guinea Lobe River, near Batanga, on rocks left bare by low water, Bates, 322! Bipinde, Zenker, 1294! Johann-Albrechts Höhe, Staudt, 603! and without precise locality, Preuss, 1364!
Notes
This has been distributed from Berlin as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, a widely different plant. It is very similar to K. glaberrima in general appearance, but the pollen-masses and short turgid follicles readily distinguish it. From the Arabian K. Forskalii, Decne. it differs in its much more deeply bifid coronal-lobes and long narrow compressed pollen-masses, which in K. Forskalii are only 1/4 lin. long and quite half as broad as long and are also less compressed than in K. consimilis .

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