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Mimulopsis violacea

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Name

Identification
Mimulopsis violacea Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Mimulopsis solmsii Schweinf. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Mimulopsis solmsii
  • Mimulopsis bicalcarata
  • Mimulopsis violacea
Common name
  • majamanjumbe (Waldau) (WEST CAMEROONS, KPE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for MIMULOPSIS violacea Lindau [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
MIMULOPSIS violacea Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 105. —Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 301, fig. 121, D-H. M. bicalcarata, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 106, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 301, fig. 108, D.
Information
Shrub 12 ft. high (Mann). Leaves up to 7 by 3 1/2 in., ovate-lanceolate, toothed, sometimes doubly toothed or irregularly lobed, sparingly pubescent; petioles 1–3 in. long. Inflorescence viscid-hairy, loosely compound-cymose; pedicels often 1/3 in. long, or (in one panicle only of Mann 2348) much denser with very many flowers and pedicels hardly 1/6 in. Calyx-segments up to 1 (or even 1 1/4) in. long, linear, acute, nearly glabrous within. Corolla 1 in. long, pale-violet (Lindau). Ovary with brown glandular scales nearly to the base, and with few or many long white several-celled hairs at the top or extending nearly to the base. Capsule 3/4 in. long, lanceolate, minutely hairy, ultimately glabrate, usually perfecting 6–8 seeds.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Buea, 3000–7800 ft., Preuss, 814! 1056! Cameroon mountains, 7000 ft., Mann, 1260! 1965!Fernando Po Upper Guinea 7000 ft., Mann, 2348!
Notes
In M. bicalcarata the anther of the anticous stamen is said to have one cell long-spurred, the other very short-spurred; but in the authentic example of Lindau, the anthers are exactly as in M. violacea. Granting that a small spur does exist occasionally, it would not constitute an additional species.

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