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Lebretonia acuminata

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Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Lectotype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Lectotype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isolectotype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Syntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Lectotype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isolectotype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
Filed as Pavonia kraussiana Hochst. [family MALVACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Lebretonia acuminata A.Rich. [family MALVACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pavonia burchelli (DC.) Dyer [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pavonia macrophylla
  • Pavonia kraussiana
  • Pavonia patens
  • Urena mollis
  • Pavonia burchellii
  • Pavonia crenata
  • Pavonia burchelli
  • Pavonia flavo-ferruginea
  • Lebretonia acuminata
  • Lebretonia crenata

Flora

Entry for PAVONIA macrophylla E. Mey. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 175, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
PAVONIA macrophylla E. Mey. [family MALVACEAE], Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 169.
Urena mollis R. Br. [family MALVACEAE], in Salt, Abyss. App. 65; Hochst. Pl. Schimp. Abyss.
PAVONIA crenata Hochst. [family MALVACEAE], (Lebretonia) Pl. Schimp. Abyss.
Lebretonia acuminata Rich. [family MALVACEAE], Fl. Abyss. i. 53. t. 13.
Information
A tall, erect, pilose, branched herb or undershrub. Leaves on long stalks, oval, cordate acuminate, sometimes somewhat 3-lobed, coarsely and irregularly crenate-serrate, pubescent; nerves prominent below and ciliolate. Peduncles slender, axillary, 1-flowered, as long as or longer than petiole, jointed above. Epicalyx of 5 or rarely 7, foliaceous, elliptic, acute segments, exceeding the sepals in length. Petals pink, three times the length of the calyx. Carpels 5, obovate, with prominent reticulated nerves. Styles 8–10. Seed solitary in each carpel, reniform, smooth, ascending.
Range
This plant occurs also at Natal, the Cape of Good Hope, Bourbon, etc.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Salt! Pearce! Schimper! Plowden! Roth!White Nile Nile Land v. Harnier;Uganda Nile Land Speke and Grant!South Central Lake Ngami, M‘Cabe!

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