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Palisota barteri

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Filed as Palisota barteri Hook. [family COMMELINACEAE]

Filed as Palisota barteri Hook.f. [family COMMELINACEAE]

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Palisota barteri Hook.f. [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Daramola, B.O., 1973

ugbodo (Gregory) (WEST CAMEROONS, KPE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
ìghíguẹ̀wé (Kennedy) (NIGERIA, EDO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for PALISOTA Barteri Hook. f. [family COMMELINACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 25, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)

PALISOTA Barteri Hook. f. [family COMMELINACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t 5318. —C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 132; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 422; Schoenl. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. iv. 62, fig. 31, A—E; Hua in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xli. p. liv.; Cornu in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xliii. 28.

PALISOTA ombrophila K. Schum. [family COMMELINACEAE], (MS. ?) in Zenker, Exsicc. 1164.

Young parts shaggy with fulvous or greyish hair. Stems 1–5 in. long, with leaves only near their base. Leaves up to 24 by 4 1/2 in., the blade (exclusive of the quasi-petiole 8 in. long) often 9–15 in. long, obovate-lanceolate, suddenly narrowed into a lanceolate tip 1 in. long, when mature often nearly glabrate except at the densely hairy margins. Leaves on the stem 1–2 in. long, lanceolate, bract-like, not sheathing. Inflorescence 1 1/2–2 by 1–1 1/4 in., very dense, short-oblong or quadrate (but see note below on the cultivated plant) with 100–250 flowers; bracts small, concealed by the flowers; pedicels 0– 1/3 in. long, persistent. Ovary with long simple hairs scattered all over. Fruit immature, 5-seeded.

Fernando Po Upper Guinea Barter! Mann, 94!Cameroons Upper Guinea Bipinde, Zenker, 1164!

The plant, in continued cultivation at Kew, has developed a narrow-oblong inflorescence, 4 1/2 in. long, looser than in the wild collections. The P. ombrophila, K. Schum., has the ovary fully as hairy as in the picture in the Botanical Magazine, and must be conspecific with P. Barteri .