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Linariopsis prostrata

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Name

Identification
Linariopsis prostrata Welw. [family PEDALIACEAE ] (stored under name); Lealia huillensis Welw. [family PEDALIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Linariopsis prostrata
  • Lealia huillensis

Flora

Entry for LINARIOPSIS prostrata Welw. [family PEDALIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 538, (1905) Author: (By O. Stapf.)
Names
LINARIOPSIS prostrata Welw. [family PEDALIACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 53. —Stapf in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B, 264, fig. 97, H—K; 98, C; Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 371.
Information
Root cylindric or fusiform, as thick as a finger. Stem branched from the base; branches prostrate, up to 1/2 ft. long, pubescent; internodes 3–5 lin. long. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong, subobtuse at both ends, up to 7 lin. long, 3–4 lin. broad, entire or sparingly and obscurely dentate, ciliolate, densely covered below with white glands, other wise almost glabrous; petioles very short or hardly any. Calyx 1 1/2 lin. long, hairy, persistent. Corolla purplish with dark purple streaks and spots in the throat, scarcely 1/2 in. long. Fruit 2 1/2–3 lin. long. Seeds rotundate-obtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 1 1/2 to almost 2 lin. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; between Mumpulla and Humpata, 4000–5000 ft., Welwitsch, 1659! on moors by the Kubango River, below Massaca, 4000 ft., Baum, 286.
Notes
Welwitsch describes the flowers as purplish, Baum as of a dirty yellowish-brown. Welwitsch's dried specimens combine both colours.

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