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Oldenlandia noctiflora

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Name

Identification
Kohautia senegalensis Cham. & D. F. K. Schltdl. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Isotype of Oldenlandia noctiflora Hiern [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Kohautia noctiflora
  • Kohautia tenuis
  • Kohautia grandiflora
  • Oldenlandia noctiflora
  • Kohautia senegalensis

Flora

Entry for OLDENLANDIA noctiflora Hiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
OLDENLANDIA noctiflora Hiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Kohautia noctiflora Hochst. [family RUBIACEAE], in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 827
Hedyotis grandiflora A. Rich. [family RUBIACEAE], Fl. Abyss. i. p. 363, excl. syn. DC.
Information
Erect slender lucid nearly glabrous and smooth annual, 1–1 1/2 feet high, unbranched below the inflorescence. Stem terete below, obtusely quadrangular and sulcate above. Leaves linear, the upper ones narrowly so, acute, narrowed towards the sessile base, 1–2 in. long; stipules short, truncate, bicuspidate. Flowers tetramerous, white, 2/5– 1/2 in. long, opening in the evening and by night; pedicels some very short, others ranging up to 1/2 in., arranged in a lax oblong 2–3-chotomous somewhat leafy cyme. Calyx 1/7– 1/5 in. long; lobes lanceolate, acute, longer than the tube. Corolla-tube rather slender; lobes 1/3 in. long by 1/10 in. broad, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. Capsule not seen.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land near Selasquilla, Schimper!; in sterile places, 5000 feet alt. Schimper!

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