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Pentas bussei

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Identification
Pentas bussei Not on sheet. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt, B.,
Related name
  • Pentas zanzibarica
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  • Pentas bussei
  • Pentas coccinea
  • Pentas flammea
  • Pentanisia zanzibarica
  • Pentas unrecorded

Flora

Entry for PENTAS bussei K. Krause [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PENTAS bussei K. Krause [family RUBIACEAE], (1909).
PENTAS flammea Chiov. [family RUBIACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, “Baddada”, Senni 395 (FT holo.).
Information
Shrub or shrubby herb up to 4 m tall; young stems pubescent with usually ± brownish hairs. Leaf-blades ovate-lanceolate 3.5–15 x 1.7–6.5 cm, acute or acuminate at the apex, sparsely hairy with short hairs above, ± densely pubescent beneath with short white hairs; petiole up to 2 cm long; stipules with 4–15 mm long fimbriae. Flowers heterostylous, in many-flowered terminal and axillary inflorescences; peduncles up to 4 cm long. Calyx-lobes very unequal, 1–3 leaf-like, 5–18 x 1–4 mm. Corolla red; tube 7–20 mm long, glabrous to hairy outside; lobes 3–10 mm long. Capsules oblong to obovoid, 3–6 mm long, with only slightly raised beak, finally splitting into 2 parts.
Range
S3
Altitude range
15–50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Friis, Vollesen & Abdisalam Hassan 4945; Gillett & al. 25135.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Dem. Rep. Congo
Burundi
Zambia
Malawi

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