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Lepidagathis hyssopifolia

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Name

Identification
Lepidagathis hyssopifolia (Benth.) T.Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Lepidagathis hyssopifolia
  • Lepidagathis alopecuroides
  • Teliostachya hyssopifolia

Flora

Entry for LEPIDAGATHIS hyssopifolia T. Anders. [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
LEPIDAGATHIS hyssopifolia T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 34.
Teliostachya hyssopifolia Benth. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Hook. Niger Fl. 481.
Information
Very slender. Leaves (at most) 1 by 1/4 in. Spikes up to 3/4 by 1/4 in. Calyx less than 1/5 in. long; posticous sepal hardly 1/24 in. broad; otherwise as L. laguroidea .
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Don!
Notes
I here describe the type example of G. Don only. Among Scott-Elliot's excellent examples (referred above to L. laguroidea), several have been heretofore marked L. hyssopifolia; while Scott-Elliot, 4744, has been supposed a new intermediate species. I doubt if L. hyssopifolia should be considered other than a slender form of L. laguroidea, smaller in all its parts. The two species bear a strong superficial resemblance to Justicia (Rostellularia) diffusa, Willd. and its numerous subspecies or varieties.

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